(baptized 28 March 1850; died 21 May 1933), contractor. (J. A. McDougall) “He was born near Cornwall 83 years ago and visited his native city on many occasions.… He was a very prominent railroad construction man, building many miles of road for both the Great Northern and the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul railroads with the late McIntosh Brothers, also Canadian born.” Place of birth: almost certainly Lot A, Concession 3, Cornwall Township. Parents: Duncan McDougall and his wife Grace Cameron. John Allen is probably the same person as the son named Allan who attended his mother’s funeral in 1887. (See A. D. McDougall) In 1885, A. D. and Allan MacDougald (spelling thus) of the Township of Cornwall were reported to have obtained a 116-mile contract on the Wisconsin Central Railway from Slasherville to Chicago. In the issue of 27 Nov. 1908, the Cornwall Freeholder reported that George McDougall, of the South Branch, had recently had a letter from his brother Allan McDougall of the firm McDougall and Yale, railway contractors of Milwaukee, Wisc., who were currently building railway roadbed in Minnesota. (Cornwall Freeholder 27 Nov. 1908) J. A. McDougall died at his home in Chicago. He was married to Catherine A. McLennan, who survived him. (two children) He was the brother of Aeneas, A. D. and George McDougall of the present dictionary. For the McIntoshes mentioned above, see Donald Alexander and James A. McIntosh.

Standard Freeholder 31 May 1933 (QF) * death notices, Chicago Daily News 22 May 1933, Chicago Tribune 22 & 23 May 1933 * notes as for life of A. D. McDougall * The Story of St. Andrews West as Recorded on the Index Cards of Edwin McDonald, ed. Duncan MacDonald (1987), 80 (baptism), 101-102 * 1885 contract: DTL SFH 23 Aug. 1947, based on Cornwall Freeholder 28 Aug. 1885