Jennie Douglas

At the time, Spinner was attempting to persuade Governor Salmon P. Chase to employ women in federal service as he believed they would work harder than men for less money.

Spinner knew Douglas as a strong woman, stating she was a "great tall double-fisted girl, that was more than a match for any of the men in the room."

On her first day, Douglas proved that women would be more than capable of handling the large shears needed to trim money.

[1] Ella Dimock, historian for the village of Ilion in the 1950s,[7] noted that it's unknown what happened to Douglas in her later years.

In the 1888 obituary of her brother John, it was stated that he had, "spent many years, and all the means he could afford in the endeavour [sic] to find some clue to his sister, who suddenly disappeared from the knowing of the family after her return from Europe.