Alexander mcdougall biography

Alexander McDougall (1732– 9 June 1786) was a Scottish-born American seaman, merchant, a Sons of Liberty leader from New York City before and during the.
Alexander McDougall was a Scottish-born American seaman, merchant, a Sons of Liberty leader from New York City before and during the American Revolution, and a military leader during the Revolutionary War. He served as a major general in the.
MCDOUGALL, Alexander, a Delegate from New York; born in the Parish of Kildalton, on the island of Islay, Scotland, in 1731; immigrated to the United States.

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Alexander McDougall was born in 1845 in Port Ellen on the Island of Islay, Scotland. His family immigrated to Canada in 1854. When he was sixteen years old, McDougall ran away from home to work as a deckhand on a Great Lakes ship bound for Chicago. He spent the next twenty-one years sailing the lakes. At age twenty-five he became captain of the THOMAS A. SCOTT. In 1871 he moved to Duluth, Minnesota, where he continued to live until his death. In 1878 he married Emmeline Ross, and at the time of his death in 1923 he was survived by a son and a daughter.

In 1881 McDougall patented the basic design for a type of freight ship called the whaleback, for which he is best known. In 1888 he founded the American Steel Barge Company in Duluth, and began construction of whaleback vessels. Seven whalebacks were launched from this yard. In 1889 McDougall moved his shipyard operations to Superior, Wisconsin, where construction was initiated on Christmas Day, 1891. Another forty whalebacks were launched from the Superior yard. Today, this shipyard is known as Fraser Shipyards, and is still in op

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Alexander McDougall

Politician, privateer and general (1732–1786)

For other uses, see Alexander McDougall (disambiguation).

Alexander McDougall (1732^[1]– 9 June 1786) was a Scottish-born American seaman, merchant, a Sons of Liberty leader from New York City before and during the American Revolution, and a military leader during the Revolutionary War. He served as a major general in the Continental Army, and as a delegate to the Continental Congress. After the war, he was the president of the first bank in the state of New York and served a term in the New York State Senate.

Early life

McDougall was born on the Isle of Islay,^[1] in the Inner Hebrides of Scotland in the summer of ^[2] 1732.^[3] He was one of the five children of Ranald and Elizabeth McDougall. In 1738 the family emigrated to New York as part of a party led by a British Army veteran, Captain Lachlan Campbell.^[4] Campbell had described fertile land available near Fort Edward, but when they arrived in New York City, they discovered that Lachlan had been

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McDOUGALL, ALEXANDER, fur trader; b. 1759 or 1760, probably in Argyllshire, Scotland; d. 20 Nov. 1821 in Lachine, Lower Canada.

Alexander McDougall’s introduction to the fur trade may have come about through his brother Duncan, who married a sister of Nor’Wester Angus Shaw. A lieutenant in the 84th Foot, Duncan was granted lands in Lower Canada after the revolution. Another brother, Donald, apparently settled in Upper Canada. The date on Alexander’s Beaver Club medal, 1780, presumably commemorates his first winter in the Indian country. In 1788 he was a clerk at Fort Abitibi (near La Sarre, Que.) for Richard Dobie* and James Grant*. He remained there when the Timiskaming posts were sold to the firm of Grant, Campion and Company in 1791 and the following year he succeeded Æneas Cameron as master at Fort Abitibi.

In the summer of 1795, dissatisfied with his prospects in the Timiskaming region and preferring the northwest, McDougall was in Montreal, where competition for his services, and perhaps Shaw’s influence, led the North West Company to offer him a