Kentucky: A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, & Kniffin, 3rd ed., 1886. Allen County. WILLIAM H. DOUGLAS was born November 17, 1859, in Allen County, where, with the exception of three years spent at the Scottsville Academy, he has since resided. His father, Thomas J. Douglas, was a victim of the measles, contracted during service in the army. He was a member of the Ninth Kentucky Infantry, with whom he enlisted in 1861. He was of a Virginia family, and married, about 1857, Amanda M. Glascock. To this marriage one child, our subject, was born. He was married, November 20, 1878, to Susan J., daughter of James and Alice A. (Button) Moore, of Allen County. To them have been born Mary A. Rettie, Ethel and Elden. Our subject has a first-rate English education, and has made a very considerable amount of progress in the higher mathematics and the classics. He is a Democrat. Button Douglas Glascock Moore = VA http://www.rootsweb.com/~kygenweb/kybiog/allen/douglas.wh.txt