Douglass, Frederick, Jr., 1841-1892

Birth Date
Death Date
Birth Place
Associated Language
Field of Activity
Printing
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Participation, African American
(lcsh) United States. Army--Recruiting, enlistment, etc.--Civil War, 1861-1865
Civil service

found: Loomis, G. H. [Virginia L. Molyneaux Hewlett Douglass], [ca. 1869]:panel of cartes de visite album (graphite annotation: Mrs. Fredk Douglass)

found: Find a grave, accessed October 2, 2019(Frederick Douglass, Jr.; born, New Bedford, Massachusetts, March 3, 1841; died, Washington D.C., July 26, 1892; learned the trade of a printer in his father's Rochester, New York, office; during the Civil War he was commissioned a recruiting sergeant and during the conflict was engaged in mustering "colored troops" in Mississippi; moved to Washington, D.C. circa 1870, opening a grocery store; in 1877 was made a bailiff and secured a clerkship in the office of the recorder of deeds)

found: Massachusetts marriage records, via Ancestry.com, accessed October 2, 2019(Marriages registered in the city of Cambridge for 1869; August 4; groom, Frederick Douglass, Jr., "black", of Rochester, New York, 27, printer; born, New Bedford; parents, Frederick and Anna; bride, Virginia L.M. Hewlett, "mulatto", of Cambridge; born, Brooklyn, New York; parents A. Molyneaux and Virginia; clergyman, William Howe)