Biographies
DONALD McDOUGALL
The present city treasurer and until 1912 a successful merchant tailor of Sacramento, Donald McDougall, was born in Iverness County, Nova Scotia, in June, 1858, of parents of Scottish birth. His father died in 1904, aged ninety-one years, his mother in 1911, at the still more advanced age of ninety-four years. To the country schools near his boyhood home young McDougall went for his early education, and those who knew him are well assured that he gave close and persistent attention to his studies. As a boy he was apprenticed to the tailor's trade, which he mastered by the most absorbing application to the exacting and painstaking work involved. After working for some years in shops in Boston and in New York he came to Sacramento in April, 1884, and opened a merchant tailoring establishment which he has made one of the representative institutions of its kind in the town.
Since coming to California, Mr. McDougall has not been indifferent to the demands of enlightenment and patriotic citizenship, and as a Democrat he has been active and influential in public affairs. In 1906 he was elected county public administrator, an office in which he served faithfully and with great efficiency four years. In 1911 he was a successful candidate for city treasurer and in that responsible place he has patriotically met all demands upon him, giving satisfaction to rich and poor, and to his fellow citizens of every shade of political belief. He is an Elk, devoted to the social and charitable interests of that benevolent order. He has taken a great interest in the raising of fine horses and has grown some of the best in Sacramento in his time. He married Miss Lilian Johnston, of Sacramento, whose father, William E. Johnston, was a prominent rancher, well-known and respected to the end of his busy and useful life, and whose mother, a California pioneer, is living at an advanced age. Mrs. McDougall has borne her husband children as follows: Marguerite, born August 12, 1906; Archibald, June 9, 1904, and Lilian May, May 23, 1910.
Transcribed by Sally Kaleta.
Source: Willis,
William L., History of Sacramento County,
California, Pages 1008-1009.
Historic Record Company,
© 2006 Sally Kaleta.