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1864-5, Purser of Steamship Liberty, plying between New York and Havana.
1865-70, In office of Russell Manufacturing Co., of Middletown, Conn.
1870-79, in Middletown Savings Bank; teller, assistant secretary, treasurer.
1876, Traveled in England, Ireland, Scotland, France.
1879, Member of Common Council, Middletown.
1880, Traveling salesman in the West for Douglass Pump Manufacturing Co.,
Middletown.
1881, Teller of National Bank, Pueblo, Colorado.
1882-4, Assistant cashier of National Bank, Pueblo.
1885-90, Receiver of Public Moneys in U.S. Land Office, Pueblo, under
appointment of President Cleveland.
1884, Treasurer of Pueblo City Schools. Director and auditor of Modoc
Mining & Milling Co. Has mining interests in Nevada, California and
Colorado. Engaged now in looking after real estate and loaning
business. Elder and former Treasurer of First Presbyterian Church, Pueblo.
Married, Sept. 4, 1873, Miss Mary Adaline Douglass of Middletown, Conn.,
great-granddaughter of Col. William Douglass, who commanded a New Haven regiment
during the Revolutionary War, and whose ancestors were among the earliest
settlers of New England.
Children: Jonathan Douglass, born April 26, 1875; in his life full of
promise, of unusual manliness and nobility of character; died suddenly June 15,
1894, beloved and mourned by all who knew him.
William Douglass, born Feb. 3, 1880. Graduate of the Colorado School of
Mines as a mining engineer. Inventor of "Kilbourn's Constructive
Strips," patented at home and abroad, manufactured at Middletown, Conn.
Burwell Newton, born Sept. 29, 1891, a student in the Centennial High School
of Pueblo.
Address: 1827 Grand Avenue, Pueblo, Col.
Source: History of Class
of 1865 Wesleyan University, Fortieth Reunion, Middletown
Connecticut, June 27, 1905.
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