JAMES7 DOUGLASS SAUNDERS was born on 10 August 1829, in
Washington DC. He was the youngest son of David and Hannah Travilla
Saunders. He migrated to San Francisco with his parents in 1863 where
the family were reunited with James’s brother John Henry who had been in
San Francisco since 1850. James may have been a music teacher but there
is no record of any formal tertiary education. This occupation may have
resulted in meeting and marrying Emily Brannan, herself a music teacher
and the niece of Sam Brannan, a colourful Californian identity.
They had three sons, two of whom died as young men. James died in 1903 aged
73.
