Crawford Co., AR - Biographies - John H. Dougan

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SOURCE: History of Benton, Washington, Carroll, Madison, Crawford,
Franklin, and Sebastian Counties, Arkansas. Chicago: The Goodspeed 
Publishing Co., 1889.
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John H. Dougan, farmer and stock raiser, was born in Jefferson County, 
Ark., in 1850, and is a son of Thomas and Semiramis (Rogers) Dougan, 
natives of Tennessee and Alabama, respectively. He accompanied his 
parents to Saline County, where he was reared and married. The father 
died in Jefferson County. Ark., in 1863, and the mother is now living 
in Franklin County. She is a member of the Methodist Church, and her 
husband belonged to the Presbyterian. Being the second child and 
eldest son of a family of five sons and five daughters (two sons and 
two daughters now living), at the death of his father the main support 
of the family devolved upon our subject. He was educated in the common 
schools of the neighborhood, and lived with his mother in Crawford 
County until 1871, and in 1874 married Jane E., daughter of Richard M. 
and Nancy Thurston, and a native of Crawford County. This marriage has 
been blessed with three children. Mrs. Dougan's father served many 
years ago as justice of the peace, and was a native of Alabama. He 
served throughout the war in the Confederate army. His wife was born 
in Arkansas, and died about 1872, after which he was again married. 
Mr. Dougan owns 150 acres of land three miles east of Alma, and for 
some years has been running a sorghum mill Himself and wife are 
Methodists, and in politics he is a Democrat.