Bio of DOUGLAS, Captain George C. (b.1885), Hennepin Co., MN
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EXTRACTED FROM: History of Minneapolis, Gateway to the Northwest; 
Chicago-Minneapolis, The S J Clarke Publishing Co, 1923; Edited by: Rev. 
Marion Daniel Shutter, D.D., LL.D.; Volume I - Shutter (Historical); 
volume II - Biographical; volume III - Biographical
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CAPTAIN GEORGE C. DOUGLAS - Vol III, pg 188, 191
George C. Douglas, a brother of Edward Bruce Douglas, is now residing in London,
where he is engaged in the real estate business. He was born in Cedar Rapids,
Iowa, on the 20th of October, 1885, and there received his early education.
Subsequently he took up the study of engineering in Princeton University,
Princeton, New Jersey.
For some time after putting his textbooks aside George C. Douglas was associated
with his father in the lumber business in British Columbia, the father having
extensive holdings there, and subsequently he returned to Cedar Rapids, Iowa,
where he was identified with the Douglas Starch Company until the fall of 1914.
At that time he went to England and enlisted in the English army in the motor
service. Later he was transferred as motor despatch rider and for services
performed was recommended for and took the officers training course. He received
a first lieu­tenant's commission in the Field Artillery. Mr. Douglas was twice
wounded, once while in the motor service and the other time after receiving his
commission, when he suffered a severe shoulder injury. During a part of the
winter of 1917-18 he was stationed at Ceylon, where he was on garrison duty. In
1917 he was assigned to the anti-aircraft service and was active in that
connection until the signing of the armistice. In the spring of 1919 he was
promoted to a captaincy and was stationed at Aden, Arabia, again on garrison
duty. There he contracted the beriberi fever and was invalided home, being
placed on the Reserve Corps of the English army because of his ill health.
On the 3d of January, 1907, was celebrated the marriage of Mr. Douglas to Miss
Natalie.Duell of Chicago, Illinois. To their union one son has been born, Walter
D. (II), thirteen years of age.