JOHN EDMUND McDOUGALL, a representative citizen of Britton, Marshall county, as the name implies, comes of staunch Scottish lineage on the paternal side, and he is a native of Prince Edward Island, having been born in the village of Campbellton, on the 24th of February, 1860.
McDougall was elected to represent his county in the lower house of the state legislature, having been the first Republican elected to this office in the county in four years.
McDougall became a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and in January, 1888, he was primarily instrumental in the organizing of Britton Lodge, in Britton, having been its first noble grand and having represented the same in the grand lodge of the state.
John was officially received on trial by the church in 1866.
McDougall claimed to be more at home in the Cree language than in English, and with the Reverend Ervin Bird Glass he compiled and edited a Cree hymn-book and prepared a primer in English and Cree; moreover, he revised the translation into Cree of an exposition of Scripture by the Reverend John Semmens*.
JohnMcDougall, d.d., pathfinder of empire and prophet of the plains (Toronto, 1927).
