Born: December 18, 1844

Died: March 10, 1938

Married: Alice B. Douglass

Children: Robert Graham D. Douglass

Robert Dun Douglass of Orange, N. J., had a camp called Blythmere on Douglass Point on Upper Saranac Lake.

Douglass and two of his brothers, formed the Bartlett Carry Club.

According to his obituary in the March 10, 1938 New York Times, he died in Palm Beach, Florida, survived by his wife, Alice B. Douglass, a son, Robert Graham D. Douglas of Douglaston, L. I., and a granddaughter, Mrs. Gardner Prime of Stamford, Connecticut. He was born on Park Place in Manhattan, descended from Colonel John Douglass who emigrated from Scotland in 1654, settling in Charles County, Maryland, where he owned an estate called Blythewood. The family later moved to New York by way of Baltimore.

He was a director of the firm of Dun & Bradstreet, having been a partner in R. J. Dun & Co. for fifty years before it became Dun & Bradstreet in 1932. He was a member of the class of 1865 of Columbia College, and was the oldest graduate of the school. He later transferred to the Toronto University.

Mr. Douglass had a home at Llewellyn Park, West Orange, N. J. He was a member of the University Club, the Bath and Tennis Club, the Everglades Club, the Gulf Stream Club and the Old Guard Society.

In his last years Mr. Douglass spent his winters at Palm Beach, where he had a house at 94 Ocean Road.


New York Times, July 22, 1906

…Graham Douglass, the well-known polo player, is at Blythmere, the Summer home of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Dunn Douglass, on Upper Saranac Lake, after an enjoyable house party at Ferris Meig's camp, on Follensby Pond


 

New York Times, July 12, 1908

...The Llewelyn, the magnificent launch of R. D. Douglass and the largest boat of its kind in Adirondack waters, has been launched for the season in Upper Saranac Lake...

 

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