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Author: History of Will County IL, 1878

William DOUGALL, M. D., physician and surgeon, Joliet; was born in Paisley, Renfrewshire, 
Scotland, March 1, 1842; father, John DOUGALL, was a leading cotton-spinner in the west 
of Scotland, and, in 1858, came with his family to this country, settling near New Haven, 
Ind., where he died in 1874 at the age of 75 years; his mother was Margaret HOUSTOUN, a 
descendant of the ancient Reiafrewshire family of that name; she was born in the town of 
Houstoun, Renfrewshire, and still survives; the son, William, was educated in the high 
school of Glasgow. On the breaking-out of the rebellion, he enlisted in Co. C, 15th Ind. 
V. I., June 1, 1861, and participated in all the engagements of his regiment until Oct. 
1, 1863 being severely wounded at the battle of Stone River; on the above-mentioned date 
he was commissioned Captain in the 13th U. S. Colored Regiment, and served as such until 
April, 1865, when the war, having closed, he resigned, and, returning home, resumed the 
study of medicine; he attended a course of medical lectures in the University of Michigan, 
and afterward in the Chicago Medical College, from which institution he graduated, and 
received his degree March 4, 1868, and soon afterward began practice in Lemont, Cook Co., 
IL; in 1872, he located in Joliet, where he is now engaged in the practice of his 
profession. He was married Oct. 1, 1872, to Miss Cassie WALKER, daughter of Edwin WALKER, 
of Lemont, and has one child - Mamie C. Dr. DOUGALL is a member of the Will County Medical 
Society, and of the American Medical Association, and was Secretary of the former two years.


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HISTORY OF WILL COUNTY, ILLINOIS; Chicago: Wm LeBaron Jr & Co, 186 Dearborn Street, 1878.