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The Cyclopedia of New Zealand [Otago & Southland Provincial Districts]

Councillor Robert McDougall

Councillor Robert McDougall , J.P., who represents the Cardrona riding in the Lake County Council, is a native of Glasgow, Scotland, where he was born in 1829. He went to the United States of America when nineteen years of age, but returned to Britain in 1851. In 1853 he arrived in Melbourne by the ship “Champion of the Seas” and engaged in gold-mining in various parts of Australia. In August, 1861, he joined the “rushes” to Gabriel's Gully and Wetherstones, and met with moderate success. After re-visiting his native land in 1862, he returned to the Otago goldfields, and was successively at the Dunstan, Lakes, and Fox's Find at Macetown, where he set up for the first time as a storekeeper. Mr. McDougall subsequently tried South America, and the Australian colonies, but soon returned to Otago, and established himself in business at Arrow-town and Cardrona in 1871, and eventually
Councillor R. Mcdougall.

Councillor R. Mcdougall.

at Pembroke. He is one of the first elected members of Lake County Council, was made a Justice of the Peace in 1878, is chairman of the Wanaka Domain Board, and Registrar of Births, Deaths, and Marriages. Mr. McDougall was married, in 1862, to a daughter of Mr. George Paterson, of Carmyle, near Glasgow, and has nine children.