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.
H. A. Douglas-Hamilton
Born on 28 May 1853 in Simla, Punjab, the son of Maj.-Gen. Octavius Douglas-Hamilton and Katherine Augusta Westenra Macleod, Douglas-Hamilton graduated with an M.A. from Trinity College, Cambridge. Douglas-Hamilton was older brother to Lt. Col. Angus Falconer Douglas-Hamilton, a recipient of a posthumous VC during the Great War.