Mining Engineer
Centurion, 1919–1946
Born 19 December 1870 in Quebec City, Quebec, Canada
Died 3 October 1946 in Chauncey, New York
Buried Mount Hermon Cemetery
, Sillery, Quebec, Canada
Proposed by Henry S. Pritchett and John Hays Hammond
Elected 3 May 1919 at age forty-eight
Archivist’s Note: Son of James Douglas; uncle of Lewis W. Douglas
Century Memorial
Walter Douglas. [Born] 1870. Mining Engineer.
The Douglases, it seems by the number of them who have been and are Centurions, are Centurions almost as of right in virtue of their character, accomplishments and interests. Walter Douglas, a Centurion for twenty-seven years, was the son of Centurion James Douglas, elected a year after his father’s death. Like his father and the other Centurion Douglases, he was associated with mining and railroad enterprises in the Southwest and with philanthropic institutions in Canada and the United States: Superintendent of the Copper Queen Mine, President of the Phelps-Dodge Corporation; Chairman of the Board of the Memorial Hospital in New York; donor of a collection of arms and armor to the Royal Military College of Canada where he had been a student; donor of manuscripts in the history of English literature, to the Huntington Library.
He was a companionable man in the Century and elsewhere—as any fisherman, taught by his Centurion father as he was, is bound to be.
Source: Henry Allen Moe Papers, Mss.B.M722. Reproduced by permission of American Philosophical Society Library & Museum, Philadelphia
Henry Allen Moe
Henry Allen Moe Papers, 1946 Memorials
