Milton Oliver McClellan
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Milton Oliver McClellan
Has anyone ever run across any record of this man? He was my g-grandmother's kid brother and is our official family Mystery Man. Plymouth, CA was his last known address.
MILTON OLIVER MCCLELLAN
B: 5 March 1881 in KS.
Marr: Dec 1913 to MARTHA SARAH POLLMAN
D: ?
Milton and Martha met in Tenino, WA where she worked in the boarding house that her mother ran. MIlton lived there and worked in coal mines near Tenino, first as a miner and later as an engineer. His father's older brother and his family lived in Tenino, so he had family there. His own father, William Henry MCCLELLAN, lived in Oregon City and Hood River, OR with Milton's married sisters. Milton, his father and four sisters had all migrated to OR from KS between 1885 and 1890. Milton's older brother William J. probably died back in KS. His mother Martha Jane Curtis MCCLELLAN died there five days after Milton's birth in March 1881.
I'm really hoping to learn what ever became of Milton. He abandoned his young wife Martha and their infant son some time in 1914 or 1915 in the copper mining town of Kennett, CA. That site was drowned decades later under the waters of Shasta Reservoir.
WW I Draft Registration Card: Milton's name appears one last time on his draft reg card. At the time he filled it out he was living in Plymouth, Amador Co, CA. There he worked for the Plymouth Gold Mining Ltd. company at one of the most productive gold mines in the west. Milton filled out his draft reg card in Sept 1918, sixty days before the Armistice was signed. It is unknown whether or not he was actually drafted - as a miner he probably was exempted for working in a "vital industry". However, he was till in his thirties and therefore well under the age 46 draft limit of that time.
Milton provided his father's address in Oregon City, OR as his contact person on his draft reg card. There is no evidence his relatives, either in OR or in WA, ever knew where he was after he left Martha and their son. In his father's obituary it was presumed he had been lost in the conflict of WW I.
I've spent a few days in Plymouth and nearby Jackson, Amador Co, CA doing research in hopes of finding some record of Milton. His name does not appear in any lists of miners who died in accidents, nor in any burial records for county cemeteries. Although he played the French horn in the Tenino city band, I could not find his name connected with any town bands or baseball teams (they were usually the same guys) in newspaper archives at the Jackson library. Any help or suggestions would be appreciated!
MILTON OLIVER MCCLELLAN
B: 5 March 1881 in KS.
Marr: Dec 1913 to MARTHA SARAH POLLMAN
D: ?
Milton and Martha met in Tenino, WA where she worked in the boarding house that her mother ran. MIlton lived there and worked in coal mines near Tenino, first as a miner and later as an engineer. His father's older brother and his family lived in Tenino, so he had family there. His own father, William Henry MCCLELLAN, lived in Oregon City and Hood River, OR with Milton's married sisters. Milton, his father and four sisters had all migrated to OR from KS between 1885 and 1890. Milton's older brother William J. probably died back in KS. His mother Martha Jane Curtis MCCLELLAN died there five days after Milton's birth in March 1881.
I'm really hoping to learn what ever became of Milton. He abandoned his young wife Martha and their infant son some time in 1914 or 1915 in the copper mining town of Kennett, CA. That site was drowned decades later under the waters of Shasta Reservoir.
WW I Draft Registration Card: Milton's name appears one last time on his draft reg card. At the time he filled it out he was living in Plymouth, Amador Co, CA. There he worked for the Plymouth Gold Mining Ltd. company at one of the most productive gold mines in the west. Milton filled out his draft reg card in Sept 1918, sixty days before the Armistice was signed. It is unknown whether or not he was actually drafted - as a miner he probably was exempted for working in a "vital industry". However, he was till in his thirties and therefore well under the age 46 draft limit of that time.
Milton provided his father's address in Oregon City, OR as his contact person on his draft reg card. There is no evidence his relatives, either in OR or in WA, ever knew where he was after he left Martha and their son. In his father's obituary it was presumed he had been lost in the conflict of WW I.
I've spent a few days in Plymouth and nearby Jackson, Amador Co, CA doing research in hopes of finding some record of Milton. His name does not appear in any lists of miners who died in accidents, nor in any burial records for county cemeteries. Although he played the French horn in the Tenino city band, I could not find his name connected with any town bands or baseball teams (they were usually the same guys) in newspaper archives at the Jackson library. Any help or suggestions would be appreciated!