Background
Douthit, Jasper L. was born on October 10, 1834 in in Shelby Company, Illinois, United States. Son of Andrew E. and Mary Ann (Jordan) Douthit.
Douthit, Jasper L. was born on October 10, 1834 in in Shelby Company, Illinois, United States. Son of Andrew E. and Mary Ann (Jordan) Douthit.
Wabash College, Crawfordsville, Indiana, 1856. Graduate Meadville (Pennsylvania) Theological Seminary, 1867.
Assistant editor Shelby (Illinois) Freeman, 1860. Ordained to preach, 1862. Missionary in Central and Southern Illinois about 55 years.
Editor public of Our Best Words, since 1880.
Founder, 1891, and since manager Lithia Springs Chautauqua, Lithia, Shelby Company, Illinois.
Mason, Odd.
Married Emily Lovell, of Abington, Massachusetts, 1857 (died, 1905).