Doub

The Doub Family

The Doub family is a French family that emigrated from the Moselle region of France to the New World, spreading widely in mid-Atlantic colonial America. There are several branches of the Doub family, but the two earliest branches are the Maryland Doubs and the North Carolina Doubs.

The Maryland Doubs

The Maryland branch settled first in Frederick, Maryland, then further into frontier Maryland, starting in the early 18th century. Several early Doubs were active land speculators in Frederick, and their names are mentioned on many colonial-era deeds. Ezra Doub ran for the Maryland legislature in 1841 on the Whig ticket, and lost.

Maryland Doub family members were active in the taming of the Western Maryland frontier, and played a prominent role in the agriculture, economy, and politics of Washington County, Maryland from the earliest days of the county.

The Doub's Mill Historic District and Doub Farm in Keedysville are both named after the Doub family. Another Doub family farm in Boonsboro, Maryland was reportedly used as a field headquarters during the Battle of Antietam; the family had fled the battlefield and taken refuge in the western Maryland hills.

Notable Doub Family Members

• Rev. Peter Doub (1796-1869),^[1] early North Carolina Methodist preacher and advocate of women's education, Peter Doub was one of three founders of Greensboro Female College.
• Ezra Doub (1814-1892?),^[2] Frederick, then Boonsboro, landowner and Whig candidate for Maryland House of Representatives, 1841. Justice of peace for the Frederick County, 1845^[3]
• Albert Alvin Doub Sr. (1865 - ?),^[4] 1915 Republican candidate for Attorney General of Maryland (defeated by Albert Ritchie), later Circuit Court Judge, Alleghany County Maryland (1921-)^[5] · .^[6]
• Emma Katie Doub (1876-1955),^[7] Maryland educator, donnated the Doub's Woods to Washington County and owned the land where the "Emma K Doub School for Integrated Arts & Technology" has been build^[8] and is named after her.
• George Cochran Doub (1902-1981),^[9] son of Albert Doub,^[10] United States Attorney for the District of Maryland (1953-1956), US District Court; then Assistant Attorney General of the United States (1956-1960).^[11]
• Janet Doub Erickson (born Janet Ann Doub, 1924), artist and author.
• William Offutt Doub (1931-2015),^[12] pioneer in environmental and energy law, former Atomic Energy Commissioner^[13][14] (1971-1974). Son of Albert Alvin Doub jr. (died 1977), attorney ; grandson of judge Albert Alvin Doub Sr.
• Joseph Peyton Doub (son of William O. Doub), Environmental Scientist, Wetland Scientist, US Nuclear Regulatory Commission. Authored "The Endangered Species Act: History, Implementation, Successes, and Controversies", CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL, October 2012.

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