Douglas W. March Biography


	This biography appears on page 1502 in "History of South 
	Dakota" by Doane Robinson, Vol. II (1904) and was scanned, 
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	DOUGLAS W. MARCH, one of the representative members of the bar of 
Pierre, is a native of the old Buckeye state, having been born in New 
Franklin. Stark county, Ohio, on the 25th of September, 1859, a son of 
Henry C. and Sarah J. (McLoughlin) March, both of whom are now deceased, 
the father having devoted the last twenty years of his life as a 
treasury department clerk at Washington, D. C. After completing the 
curriculum of the public schools in his native town Mr. March entered 
Mount Union College, at Alliance, in the same county, and in this well-
known institution he completed his literary course. In 1882 Mr. March 
matriculated in the law department of the National University at 
Washington, D. C., and was there graduated in 1884, with the degree of 
Bachelor of Arts, and in 1886 he took the degree of Master of Laws. In 
1887 he located in Oberlin, Kansas, where he was engaged in the practice 
of his profession until 1889, when he came to Pierre, South Dakota, 
where he has ever since been established and where he has built up a 
large and representative practice. He has ever given an uncompromising 
allegiance to the Republican party, but has held his profession worthy 
of his undivided time and attention. Mr. March is affiliated with 
Capital City Lodge, No. 36, Knights of Pythias, which he has represented 
in the grand lodge of the state, of which latter important body he is a 
past chancellor. 

	On the 17th of September, 1894, Mr. March was united in marriage 
with Miss May Cowan, daughter of Archibald and Mary Cowan, of Pierre, 
and they are the parents of four children, namely: Harry C., Doris, 
Julia E. and Alta May.