Bio of Doughty, Samuel (b.1818) Wabasha Co., MN
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This bio comes from "HISTORY OF WABASHA COUNTY" 1884.
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Doughty, Samuel, president of Lake City bank, was born at Rockaway, New
York, in 1818. His ancestry on both sides includes the earliest emigrants
from England to Long Island. His maternal grandfather, Henry Nelson,
served the colonies through the revolutionary war. Samuel and Betsey
Doughty, his parents, were born on Long Island. Our subject was reared on
a farm, three miles from any schoolhouse, and there were no free schools
on Long Island in those days, within eighteen miles of New York city, the
commercial and literary metropolis of America at that time. Thanks to a
noble mother, his education was not wholly neglected. It is a matter of
honest pride to Mr. Doughty that, through his earnest and
shrewdly-directed efforts, a free school was established in the same
district. This was after he had learned the blacksmith's trade and set up
a shop at his early home. At. fifteen he went to acquire his craft, and
began business, as above noted, before twenty. He was soon elected a
member of the school board, and took great pains to secure to the youth of
the community advantages which he had himself been denied. In 1839 he
married Hannah Rider, also a native of Long Island. Thirteen years later
he removed to Bloomington, Illinois, where he continued to operate his
craft. In 1855 he came thence to this point, and has been since identified
with the growth and progress of Lake City. He became an owner in the town
site, and was many years occupied with the care of transfers and other
matter, attendant on the upbuilding of a thriving city. In 1874 he assumed
his present position as president of the Lake City bank. In regard to
matters of theology, Mr. Doughty is a total unbeliever. Politically he was
a democrat till a few years before the civil war, and has been a
republican ever since. He has four sons. The eldest, Maj. Edward, and the
youngest, Frank, reside with their father; Calvin, at Heron Lake, this
state, and J. Cole, in business here.
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This bio comes from "HISTORY OF WABASHA COUNTY" 1920.
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http://www.rootsweb.com/~mnwabbio/wab3.htm
There are also some pictures and information from descendents for some 
of the bios on her pages.

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