Illinois:  History of Cass County, Illinois, ed. William Henry
Perrin. O. L. Baskin & Co. Historical Publishers, Chicago, 1882. 
Cass County.

JOHN L. DOUGLASS, retired blacksmith, Ashland; was born at
Madison, Jefferson, Co., Ind., June 3, 1823; son of Asahel and
Jane (Kikindall) Douglass.  Asahel, a native of Connecticut, was
born May 19, 1791, and died Jan. 21, 1880; his wife, born in
Pennsylvania, Nov. 6, 1802, died Nov. 28, 1879; they were the
parents of eleven children; John L., when two years of age, went
with his parents to Lexington, Ky., thence to Metcalfe Co., that
State, where his youth was spent in assisting his father in his
mercantile and trading interests.  When about twenty years of age
he began blacksmithing with his father, and after having learned
the trade, came, in 1857, to Virginia, this county, and the
following year removed to Ashland, and purchased a shop which had
been in good operation but a few months.  Here he continued in
business until 1881.  He served as magistrate one year, and is
now performing the duties of that office, having been re-elected
in the fall of 1881.  During the late war, he entered the service
in Co. I, 1st I.V.I., under Capt. Jesse F. Newman, the regiment
being commanded by Col. Charles Fox, and remained in service
three years.  In Adair Co., Ky., April 27, 1847, he married
America E. Yates, born in Kentucky, May 31, 1831, daughter of
Melford and Catherine (Creels) Yates, natives of Adair Co., that
State.  From this union twelve children have been born, viz.:
Melford A., John W. O., Jane C., Orrin A. (died July 12, 1858);
was the first person who died in Ashland), Louan, Rebecca C.,
Luther H., Maud L., Maria O., Mary E., George T., and Reuben C. 
M. Douglass and wife are connected with the Methodist church; he
has been an active member of the I.O.O.F., for a number of years;
was one of the charter members of Oak Lodge No.  341, at Ashland.
He was originally an old line Whig, and is now a Republican.

Douglass Kikindall Yates Newman Fox Creels
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Jefferson-IN CT Metcalfe-KY Adair-KY