The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1896-01-29
DIR, DOUGLAS IS DEAD
The Well-KnOwn Physician Passes
Away With No Sign of Agony.
AN HONORED G. AR. VETERAN
He Was Also a Mason and a Mem
Der of the Knights of PythIas-
A Wife and Three Daughters
Mourn His Death.

SNlCCb. DOcbtAi W illIn HIS
: sleep; from the repose of life ne passed
into the sleep eternal. so quietly. so
peacefully that no one was aroused,
and no sign left to Indicate that he had
suffered any passing pain.
- He was indispoSed during the pre-
vious afternoon. though in the morning
he had been about his professional du-
I ties. in the afternoon he remained at
;. home. DR.. Lesser prescribed for him.
/. and he felt relief from the pain which
: he had felt in his stomach and, after a
5 social call, DR.. Lesser went away. DR..
= Douglas spent the evening with his
= family and at the hour of retiring went
TO his room instead of remaining, as
usual, with his daughter, Emily, who
has been i'll for several days. Mrs.
/. Douglas relieved him at the daughters
bedside.
When Mrs Douglas went to call him.
about o'clock, the. doctor lay as
! though sleeping, with his finger along
his nose, "a familiar position often as
; sumed by the doctor when deep in
Thought. Being unable to arouse him,
Mrs Douglas summoned aid. DIR. Spell
Z man and DR.. Lesser responded to the
call, but when they arrived they agreed
. that he had been dead for several
hours. Rigor mortis had fastened upon
him.
DR.. Douglas came to Anaconda last
Il
eDsr Lodge. though he had him
( self made 1t his home for about
one year prev ious to that tdme. During
his short residence in Anaconda many
warm friends had become attached to
; him. for he had no enemies. A courtly
gentleman, strict in the ethics of his
profession, devoted to his country with
pure and intense patriotism, true to his
r. God. his family and his friends, he had
everywhere the respect of all who knew
him. His years of army service had,
perhaps, an influence upon his personal
appearance. for in his favorite cloak OF
blue and the military SLOUGH hat he
wore, he was every inch soldier He
maintained the dignity born of his au-
thorbty, but he was as gentle as a child
and as attentive as possible to the
want OF every patient, of high or low
degree, that called upon his services.
AS county physician, ne had many who
told him their woes, real and ina gin
any, and all were given the kindest of
care that he could bestow Many and
many are they who received at his
hands throughout his long career gra-
tuitous medical treatment, which was
the purest of charity
DR.. Douglas was a scholar not only
in medicine, but also in the world OF
poltrfcs, science and literature. His lit
erary abiftty was often recognized by
Eastern magazines, and articles on
medicine, finance and politics from his
pen have been printed by the Forum,
Arena and other journals of his profess
son.
At the meeting Of the State Medical
association last April DR. Douglas read
an able paper upon preventive Medi-
cine which was highly spoken of by
all the physicians who were there as
sembled. He was elected a member Of
the judiciary committee of the assocla- |
tion.
/ He was born in Rensselaer, county, |
New York, Oct. "a, 1884, and was there |
fore 81 years of age. His early life was |
spent at Albany, where he attended |
school He studied medicine in Ver- |
mont and at Ann Arbor, Michigan, and |
at the time of the breaking out of the |
civil war enlisted in the surgical corps. |
he served for some time at Bellevue |
hospital, New York. as assistant sur
geon, and was transferred to the front |
doing field duty with General McClel-
ian through the Peninsular campaign. |
During that memorable retreat he per-
formed such service, courageously res
culng time after time a company of /
wounded men and remaining with them |
when capture was imminent but at last
bringing them safe within the union
lines, that he received special mention
in general orders, thus being COM
mended by his commanding officer.
Later, In the smallpox hospital he
served with a bravery equal to that
with which he had faced the bullets
and the prison pens of the enemy.
When the war was over he was muster
ed out at the grand review in Washing
ton. Shortly after he reenlisted in the
regular army and went to the frontier
IN. Texas and afterward in California as
surgeon. He was married in 1866. at
Bedford, Pa, to Miss Laura Washa-
baugh, who is now bereaved by his
death.
DIR. Douglas resigned from the regu-
lar army in 1876 and located in Salt
Lake. While there he was elected de-
partment commander of the G.. A. r. at
a time when Utah and Montana were
one department. He was warmly at
tached to the order and it grew rapidly
under his command. In 1885 he re-
moved to Deer Lodge, which was his
home except for a brief time at Basin.
ever since that year until coming to
Anaconda.
The bereaved family consists of Mrs.
Douglas and three daughters-Miss
Douglas and Misses Virginia and Emily
Douglas.
der. the knights of Pythias and the G.
A. r.
The funeral arrangements have not
been completed, but viii probably be
held on Thursday afternoon at .
O'Clock.
So Greek Monks
The surviving occupants of these four
retreats are Basilian monks
Of the Orthodox Greek church, and are
nearly all men that have lived in the
world and grown weary Of IL. They do
not have to go through any definite !
course of study or to serve a regular
novitiate, as in the Catholic church. |
ana most Of them are only given the
eSSer habit. Each of these unouaetayias /
Is independent of the others and gov
rms itself The head Of each CON, nm ! .