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McDougall Hotel
Denison, Texas

The Sunday Gazetteer
Sunday, September 27, 1885
pg. 2

The hotel facilities of Denison are equal to any city of its size and far surpassing many. First, we have the McDougall, at the depot, the good management of which has gained the good will and praise of the traveling public and spread its reputation over a vast territory. The house is kept in first-class order and the table is always supplied with all the most capricious appetite might crave.

Source : Art Work of Grayson County (1895)

McDougall Hotel envelope
McDougall & Bouchard, props.

At the end of 1892 J.B. McDougall became sole owner of the McDougall Hotel with the dissolution of his partnership with Mr. Bouchard.

The Sunday Gazetteer
Sunday, December 4, 1892

DISSOULITON NOTICE
Notice is hereby given that the co-partnership heretofore existing between J.B. McDougall and A.S. Bouchard, has this day been dissolved by mutual consent. Mr. Bouchard, having sold his interest to Mr. McDougall, who will continue the busines. J.B. McDougall, assuming any indebtedness of the firm that may be outstanding.
All debts due to the McDouglas Hotel or McDougall Steam Laundry, shall be paid to L.B. McDougall.
J.B. McDougall
A.S. Bouchard
Denison, Texas, November 14, 1892

412 West Morton Street.
Source: "Residence of J. B. McDougall."
Robinson, Frank M., comp. Industrial Denison. [N.p.]: Means-Moore Co., 1901. Page 59.

McDougall Hotel
1896 - 1897
Denison City Directory, 1896 - 1897

Marcellus Lloyl Oglesby (1857-1915) came to Denison from Sedalia, Missouri with his family in 1899. He managed the Union Depot Hotel, owned by the Katy Railroad. The Oglesby family lived in the hotel (the former McDougall Hotel), adjacent to the depot on the north end.

Postcard, ca. 1912
Union Station (right) attached to the McDougall Hotel (left)

Mr. Oglesby was in charge of the railroad dining cars, too. Mrs. Oglesby probably helped run the hotel and restaurant. A complimentary story in one of the local newspapers credits both her and her husband. Matilda Catharine Oglesby (1895-1982) came to Denison with her family in 1899, when she was not yet four years old. She graduated from St. Joseph's Academy, a boarding school in New York, but prior to that she attended St. Xavier's Academy in Denison until she was 13 or 14. Catharine's first marriage in 1919 must have been short-lived. Most of the Oglesby family trees don't even show it.

The family members are buried at Calvary Cemetery, Denison, Texas.