Wayne County Biographies



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John B. Dougan

John B. Dougan, Cashier Second National Bank, Richmond, Ind., was born in Niles, Mich., in 1847, a son of William and Ann (Gray) Dougan. His grandfather, Isaac Gray, was a native of Ireland, and came with his wife, Martha Bartley Gray, to the United States when a young man, settling in Virginia, and in the third decade of the present century became a merchant of some note in Richmond. He afterward removed to Niles, Mich., where he died of fever in 1831. Our subject became a resident of Richmond in 1857, and here acquired a fair education, completing it at Niles, Mich. He has been Cashier of the Second National Bank since its organization, and is now one of its Directors. He is an enterprising business man, and is one of the promising young men of Richmond.

Source:
History of Wayne County, Indiana. Chicago: Inter-State Publishing Co. 1884. Volume 2