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Leon Forrest DOUGLASS  1869 - 1940 arrow arrow PIONEER    PARENTS    LIFE    NOTES    LABELS    PHOTOS    THANK YOU

PIONEERRESPOND

Leon Forrest DOUGLASS  1869 - 1940

aka Leon F. Douglass, L. F. Douglass, Leon Douglass, L. Douglass
nationality
occupation inventor
birth 12 March 1869, Syracuse, Otoe, Nebraska or Lincoln Lancaster, Nebraska
baptism
death 7 September 1940, San Francisco, CA (NYT)
burial
marriage married on 10 Feb 1897 to:
Victoria ADAMS

b. 22 Feb (or 1 March?) 1878, Lima, PERU
d. 29 Apr 1943, San Francisco (death location: Los Angeles), CA

children
  • Leon Forrest Jr.

    b. 21 Mar 1898, Chicago, Cook, IL

  • Dorothy Victoria

    b. 9 June 1900, Chicago, Cook, IL

  • Earl Seymour

    b. 8 Sep 1902, Philadelphia, PA

  • Eldridge Adams

    b. 5 June 1906, Philadelphia, PA

  • Ena Lucille

    b. 19 Apr 1913, San Rafael, Marin, CA

  • Florence Carol

    b. 9 Jan 1915, San Rafael, Marin, CA


PARENTS

father James Seymour DOUGLASS

b. 1832, Tompkins, NY
d. 4 Dec 1896, Chicago, Cook, Illinois

mother Mary V. FULLER

b. .. Aug 1839, New York
d. ............

marriage got married on 24 Feb 1856 in Juneau, Dodge, Wisconsin
children
  • Justus French

    b. .... 1865 in Juneau, Dodge, Wisconsin

  • Charles H.

    b. .. Oct 1866, Red Cloud, Minnesota

  • Leon Forrest

    b. 12 March 1869, Syracuse, Otoe, Nebraska
    d. 7 September 1940, San Francisco, CA

  • Florence

    b. .... 1871, ....., Nebraska

  • Berenice O.

    b. .. July 1876, ......, Nebraska

  • Mable B. (.. July 1880, ......., Nebraska)

LIFE


CENSUS 1920 (Marin, CA):



CENSUS 1930 (San Mateo, CA):



Co-founder
in 1911 Chairman Board of Directors of VICTOR TALKING MACHINE CO.


NOTES


COMPANIES & LABELS


VICTOR
VICTOR TALKING MACHINE COMPANY


PHOTOS

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THANK YOU





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