Talk:Lloyd C. Douglas

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Some corrections I'd like to correct a few points here. As the grandson of Lloyd C. Douglas, I don't want to change the actual text because of the conflict of interest, but I hope that someone else might make use of this information

I have never heard that my grandfather's original name was Doya. I suspect that this information came from a bad scan of the 1910 census report. If you put a piece of dirt between the stems of "Ll" you could get "D" and smearing the stem of the last "d" could make it an "a". His wife was Besse I. (for Io) (Porch) Douglas. Daughter Betty was also Besse Io. At least you got the name of my mother, Virginia, right.

Magnificent Obsession was far from being "an immediate and sensational success". The truth is much more interesting. The book was published, originally 3000 copies, in October 1929. In The Shape of Sunday, my mother wrote "during its first year the book's sales had been mainly to friends and parishioners of past churches." It was not until September 1931 that it appeared in "the list of the first twelve bestsellers … according to the Bookman's monthly score."

Adawson13 (talk) 18:33, 16 August 2012 (UTC)

I've checked the listing of Lloyd C. Douglas and household from the 1910 US census which I obtained from Ancestry.com. The claim that his name was "Doya C. Douglas" clearly is not explained by a bad scan. Whoever recorded this information (originally in the Internet Movie Database) simply didn't look at the scan very carefully. In the census his wife's name is correctly given as "Besse I". His oldest daughter is incorrectly recorded as "Bessie". The cook, "Ms. Josephine Somach" is actually Josephine Smith. I don't know why it was felt that the name of his cook was worth recording in such a brief account of his distinguished career. Adawson13 (talk) 18:08, 17 February 2014 (UTC)76.167.146.38 (talk) 18:03, 17 February 2014 (UTC)