Born between 1708 and 1725; perhaps in Milford, Litchfield County, CT
An "adopted daughter" was listed with them in 1900 census. Her name was Marjorie Burlingame (b. May 1875, IA)
"R.N. Douglass was the owner of the corner Drug Store in Postville for many years. His nickname was Rocky Mountain Reub. Reub lived and breathed politics -- being a life-long democrat.He sold the very latest of patent medicines in the late 1800's and early 1900's. Reub sold such favorites as Rocky Mountain Tea - it would cure almost anything and I thought it would have cured most people from taking it, as it seems to me that a lot of extra time was spent in the little half-moon buildings outside -- really not a big deal -- especially in the cold, cold wintertime and in the dead of night! R.N. Douglass was a heavy advertiser in the Postville Review. . ." per Prominent People of the Pale Past; R.N. Douglass; Stan Schroeder's Radio Program © listed on IAGenWeb site.
"May H. Douglass was the wife of R.N. Douglass, and President of the Postville Civic Club for a number of years. She was a charter member and an ardent supporter of the W.C.T.U. and the Woman Suffrage Movement. She counted Susan B. Anthony and Carrie Nation as her heroines. She was against smoking and the chewing of tobacco, the drinking of beer or any other intoxicating drink. She was against the mingling of the sexes as in dance, fishing, hunting or the playing of baseball on the sacred Sabbath. May, and a goodly number of the ladies of the W.C.T.U., petitioned the city fathers to pass a law against men "expectorating" on the towns street corners. The women objected to the men who gathered to smoke and spit tobacco. "per Prominent People of the Pale Past; R.N. Douglass; Stan Schroeder's Radio Program © listed on IAGenWeb site.