Walter Donald Douglas (April 21st, 1861 - April 15th, 1912) was a First Class passenger of the Titanic. He died in the sinking. He was born in Iowa on 21 April 1861. With his brother George, Douglas had founded the family starch works in his native Cedar Rapids that later became Penick & Ford. Their father, George, had started Quaker Oats. A resident of Cedar Rapids, Iowa and Deephaven, MN, Douglas, now 50, boarded the Titanic at Cherbourg with his wife Mahala Douglas and their maid Berthe LeRoy. Travelling as First Class passengers, they occupied cabin C-86.