Monterey County CA Archives Biographies.....McDougall, James H. 1836 - 
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Author: Luther A. Ingersoll, Editor (1893)

JAMES H. McDOUGALL.—The subject of this brief sketch is one of the most widely
and favorably known business men in Monterey county. He has been a resident of
California since 1854, and his rise and progress from step to step as a business
man is briefly noted in the following lines:

  Mr. McDougall is a native of Glasgow, Scotland, and was born October 4, 1836.
His father, James McDougall, is a pioneer of California, of 1858, a venerable
resident of Salinas.

  Our subject, upon arrival in San Francisco, via Chicago, came directly to
Monterey county and engaged in farming in the Parnell valley, until 1858. He
then followed lumbering for a brief time, and also operated a threshing crew in
the Pajaro valley. In 1868 he commenced merchandising in Salinas city, in
partnership with Deacon Howe, carrying a somewhat mixed assortment of goods,
mostly stationery. For about thirteen years he served as Postmaster of Salinas,
receiving his appointment from Postmaster-General Key, under President Hayes'
administration. In 1884 he was elected Tax Collector of Monterey, and is still
connected with the office, as a deputy. He retired from the mercantile business
in 1889, having been engaged therein for twenty years. During these busy years
Mr. McDougall has been very prosperous and has accumulated a tine property,
which consists of valuable productive real estate and business property, in and
about Salinas. He has figured more or less in politics, arid has never lost a
political contest. He has served several times on his local School Board, and is
President of the same at the present time. In January, 1880, he was elected
Treasurer of Alisal Lodge, No. 163 I. O. O. F., of Salinas, and has since been
custodian of its finances. He is interested in banking, and is a director in one
of the strongest banking institutions in the interior of the State.

  Mr. McDougall married Miss Elizabeth, the daughter of the late James Bardin,
Esq., an esteemed pioneer and leading farmer of Salinas, a brief sketch of whose
life can be found on another page in this work. Mr. and Mrs. McDougall have two
bright children, Jay Edward and Charles.


Additional Comments:
Extracted from:

Memorial and Biographical History of the Coast Counties of Central California.

Illustrated.

Containing a History of this Important Section of the Pacific Coast from the
Earliest Period of its Discovery to the Present Time, together with Glimpses of
its Auspicious Future; Illustrations and Full-Page Portraits of some of its
Eminent Men, and Biographical Mention of many of its Pioneers, and Prominent
Citizens of To-day.



HENRY D. BARROWS,
Editor of the Historical Department.

LUTHER A. INGERSOLL,
Editor of the Biographical Department.

"A people that take no pride in the noble achievements of remote ancestors will
never achieve anything worthy to be remembered with pride by remote
descendants."-Macaulay.


CHICAGO: THE LEWIS PUBLISHING COMPANY.
1893.

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