McLain Family website

Welcome to the McLain Family website a repository of the many McLain photos over the years, along with some tidbits of history.

Elliot (1895-1958) and family.

Leigh (1900-1939) and family

Raynor (1903-1984) and family

Stuart (1905-1990) and family

Older family photos, group photos, ancient history and family farms.

Neal McLain (Stuart McLain’s eldest son) has a website for the McLain Cemetery in Tecumseh, Michigan, where many McLain’s are buried. Please visit the site here.

Doug McLain
Sylvia McLain

About us

The creators of this website are Douglas McLain (Stuart’s youngest son) and Sylvia McLain (Leigh’s youngest granddaughter and Howard McLain’s only daughter). Doug lives in sunny California and Sylvia was raised in Tennessee but now resides in the not-so-sunny United Kingdom. Please let us know if you have any suggestions, pictures, letters or other related material.

Latest from the Blog

Spot the Dog (by Neal McLain)

Poor “Spot” (or “Spottie Ringtail”) as we sometimes called her. I often think of her. During WWII our family was living at Aberdeen Proving Ground (APG) in Maryland. Our dad, Stuart Mclain, was a Major in the U.S. Army. I don’t know his job was but it was important to the war effort. He must…

1918 Flu Pandemic

In 1918 Leigh McLain was at University in Carnegie Tech in Pittsburg when the Flu Pandemic struck. This is a picture of one his friend in a Pandemic tent on the campus at Carnegie. Note how far away the tent is from Leigh who took the photograph. They were probably socially distancing just like today.…

The Elliots from Leicester, New York

This is the Elliot side of the family picking hops and it was presumably taken in 1895 in Leicester, New York where Mary Helena hailed from. The man on the far left (with the impressive beard, is almost certainly John Elliot (1835-1915) and it is possible that the woman second from the right is Sophia…

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