Douthett, David

David Douthett, deceased, was born in Forward Township, this county, July 4, 1814, and died May 23, 1885, at the age of seventy-one. His wife, also a native of Forward Township, was born June 14, 1825, and died in June, 1915, at the age of ninety.

To David and Jane E. (Brown) Douthett nine children were born: (1) Agnes J., born December 23, 1844, died September 22, 1924. She married John Brown Dodds, born December 14, 1842. (2) Benjamin W., born May 17, 1846. He married on January 11, 1870, Miss Nancy J. Maharg. He was reared on his father's farm and was a public auctioneer. Later he purchased a farm near Petersville, Pennsylvania. He was a Republican and served as state delegate to two state conventions. He was a government officer in Williamsport, Pennsylvania, in 1892; Erie, Pennsylvania, 1908; Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 1903-1911. He is deceased. (3) James M., born January 15, 1850, married on December 31, 1873, to Miss Lizzie C. Crowe. His early life was spent on his father's farm. In 1874 he rented the John Crowe farm upon which he remained seventeen years and in 1891 purchased a farm in Penn Township. He was a Republican, school director in Forward and Penn Townships, member of the road board for six years, and secretary of the board. An elder in the United Presbyterian Church, in which he is an active worker, being Sunday school superintendent and a teacher of the Bible class, and has served as trustee and auditor. He has been president of the Tenth Sunday School District for two years, and is a director of the Glade Mills Fire Insurance Company. (4) Dr. David K., born July 3, 1854, died November 19, 1922. Attended Witherspoon Institute in 1873-1874; in. 1875 taught school in Mordeci Johns School; in 1876 taught the Nixon school, and in his spare time studied medicine under Doctor Conn of Butler, Pennsylvania. In 1877-78 attended the Medical Department of Wooster (Ohio) University, and started the practice of his profession at Brownsdale, Pennsylvania. In 1880 he removed to Osceola, Iowa, and established offices. He was a Republican. In 1884 he was elected chairman of the Republican Central Committee of Clark County, Iowa, and served four years. He was twice elected a delegate to the national convention. In 1888 he was appointed by President Cleveland a member of the Pension Examining Board of Surgeons for Southern Iowa, and served twelve years as secretary of this board. He served two terms on the Board of Education of Osceola, Iowa, and served as president for five years. He was a surgeon for the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad from 1898 to 1902. He married Bertha Brown, March 2, 1882. (5) D. M., born March 18, 1856, reared on his father's farm until he was eighteen years of age. In October, 1878, he went to Aurora, Illinois, where he worked for five years, worked on a farm for J. Ammes three years, and then removed to Dawson County, Nebraska, and took up a homestead seven miles north of Overton, Nebraska. In 1890 he formed a partnership with H. S. White and they joined farms, which consisted of 4,500 acres, and incorporated the White Land & Cattle Company; Mr. White, president, and Mr. Douthett, vice president and manager. In 1901 he sold out his holdings and moved to Overton, Nebraska. In that year the Alfalfa State Bank was organized and he became its vice president. In 1904 he bought the stock of H. S. Green and was elected president, in which position he served until 1908, when he sold his stock and went into the real estate and loan business. He resides in Lincoln, Nebraska. On March 29, 1892, he married Mrs. N. E. Wieze (nee; Wilson). (6) Mary Esther Lucetta Douthett, born November 16, 1858, married James F. Brittain, attorney. (7) William G., a sketch of whom appears in this volume. (8) A. M., whose sketch appears elsewhere in this history. (9) Walter S., born October 7, 1866. At the age of nineteen he associated in business with his brother, W. G., who was then in charge of the old homestead. In the fall of 1890 he came to Butler and engaged in business, which he sold in 1891. In 1892 he returned to the old homestead and has remained there since in charge of the farm. He was a horse fancier and owned Mary Russell, whose race track record was 2:09 1/2. He has raised and sold many fast and fine horses. His stock farm was known as the "High View Stock Farm." On February 24, 1892, he was married to Minnie Burton.

History of Butler County, Pa, 1927