Addison H. Douglas was mayor in 1855, then was succeeded by Thomas B. Carroll. When Mayor Carroll died in office in 1857, Douglas stepped back in. When the Great Railroad Jubilee celebrated the completion of the Memphis & Charleston line the first of May, 1857, thousands pf people crammed into town to celebrate the linking of the Mississippi with the Atlantic with speeches, fireworks, feast & celebrations. A pumper engine full of water from the Atlantic Ocean came by train to be poured into the Mississippi river in "the Wedding of the Waters." The man in charge of the pump missed his cue. So Mayor Douglas, in full dress, grabbed the hose and yelled "Pump". The band played "Hail Columbia!" Douglas was later a criminal court judge.
Excerpt from: Elmwood 2002, In the Shadow of the Elms, by Perre Magness.
From the Evening Star; Sept 6 1894, Washington DC
Judge A.H. Douglass, a leading lawyer in Tennessee, is dead, aged eighty-four years. He was an old Indian fighter and soldier with David Crockett in the early part of the century.
Excerpt from: Elmwood 2002, In the Shadow of the Elms, by Perre Magness.
From the Evening Star; Sept 6 1894, Washington DC
Judge A.H. Douglass, a leading lawyer in Tennessee, is dead, aged eighty-four years. He was an old Indian fighter and soldier with David Crockett in the early part of the century.
Addison H. Douglas was mayor in 1855, then was succeeded by Thomas B. Carroll. When Mayor Carroll died in office in 1857, Douglas stepped back in. When the Great Railroad Jubilee celebrated the completion of the Memphis & Charleston line the first of May, 1857, thousands pf people crammed into town to celebrate the linking of the Mississippi with the Atlantic with speeches, fireworks, feast & celebrations. A pumper engine full of water from the Atlantic Ocean came by train to be poured into the Mississippi river in "the Wedding of the Waters." The man in charge of the pump missed his cue. So Mayor Douglas, in full dress, grabbed the hose and yelled "Pump". The band played "Hail Columbia!" Douglas was later a criminal court judge.
Excerpt from: Elmwood 2002, In the Shadow of the Elms, by Perre Magness.
From the Evening Star; Sept 6 1894, Washington DC
Judge A.H. Douglass, a leading lawyer in Tennessee, is dead, aged eighty-four years. He was an old Indian fighter and soldier with David Crockett in the early part of the century.
Excerpt from: Elmwood 2002, In the Shadow of the Elms, by Perre Magness.
From the Evening Star; Sept 6 1894, Washington DC
Judge A.H. Douglass, a leading lawyer in Tennessee, is dead, aged eighty-four years. He was an old Indian fighter and soldier with David Crockett in the early part of the century.
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