San Diego County Biographies
 
McDOUGALL & BURGESS

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        The firm of McDougall & Burgess, dealers in agricultural implements, 
occupy spacious warerooms, 100 x 100 feet, at the corner of Seventh and I 
streets. William B. McDougall was born at Milburn, Illinois, in 1853, and came 
to San Diego in 1874.  He was employed by Klauber & Levi in their hardware 
department for seven years. J. G. Burgess was born at Oswego, New York, November 
13, 1865, and later, moving to Syracuse, engaged in the hardware business about 
three years. He then came to San Diego in 1887, and spent one year in the store 
of his brother at El Cajon. In October, 1888, the above partnership was formed 
and they bought out the implements, stock and good will of Messrs. Klauber & 
Levi, continuing in the same quarters. They carry the largest stock of 
agricultural implements in the city and are the sole agents of San Diego County, 
for the following well-known line of goods: Oliver chilled plows, John Deere's 
steel plow and farm implements, Buckeye mowers, Thomas hay-rakes, Centennial 
farming mills, Freeman feed cutters, Schuttler and Studebaker wagons and 
carriages, and are dealers in all lines of large farm machinery, and are the 
only jobbers in this line in the city.
        McDougall & Burgess are young men of energy and knowledge, and are 
largely endowed with business qualities.
 
SOURCE:  An Illustrated History of Southern California:  Embracing the Counties 
of San Diego, San Bernardino, Los Angeles and Orange, and the Peninsula of Lower 
California� Chicago:  The Lewis Publishing Company, 1890.  p.-  138