Paul Douglas
Douglas was born on March 26, 1892 in Salem, Massachusetts, the son of Annie (Smith) and James Howard Douglas. When he was four, his mother died of natural causes and his father remarried. His father was an abusive husband and his stepmother, unable to obtain a divorce, left her husband and took Douglas and his older brother to Onawa, Maine in Piscataquis County, where her brother and uncle had built a resort in the woods.
John Douglas Sr.
John Douglas, often spelled Douglass in early Maryland records, was born in Scotland c. 1636, probably at his father's estate of Blythswood near Glasgow. He emigrated to Maryland in c. 1654, during the English Civil War. His father, Sir Robert Douglas of Blackerstoun and Blythswood, was a prominent Catholic Royalist and a descendant of the Douglas of Mains family, a cadet branch of the Black Douglases. Through his mother, Douglas was a grandson of Robert Douglas, Viscount Belhaven, a prominent member of King James I/VI Court in London.