Henry McLain, Mary Helena Elliot and their four sons
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…
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.…
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…
Trying to reconstruct a McLain family tree before the 1860s is pretty impossible. Not only are the records pre-1860 not easy to locate but this task is made even more difficult by the fact that every McLain descendent of the first guy who made it to the USofA wanted to name one of their kids…
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Doug McLain is Henry McLain’s youngest grandson. His father was Stuart McLain. Doug writes about the family and also his ideas about how to fix the world.
Sylvia McLain
Sylvia McLain is Henry’s youngest great-granddaughter. Her grandparents were Lillis and Leigh McLain and her Dad was their son Howard.
Henry's boys