McMillan Frost Master Research

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McMillan Frost Master Research

Research file for the ancestry of Lucile McMillan (1905-1996), mother of Frances Fairchild Holbrook: her father's McMillan line and her mother's Frost line, with the families who married into each. One section per person, numbered by Ahnentafel number counted from Lucile (her father is 2, her mother 3, a person's father is twice their number and mother twice plus one). Each section gives the vital facts, how the link to the parent is supported, a plain account of the life from the records, anecdotes and quotations found, spouses and notable siblings, open questions, and sources.

Last revised: 5 October 2026 (first edition).

Ratings. Used where they matter, not on every line.

  • How we know it: [D] Documented (a primary record, or a published transcript, index or abstract of one); [C] Compiled (a secondary genealogy, county history or online tree); [I] Inferred (our own reasoning); [T] Tradition (family lore, no source).
  • How sure we are, for links and disputed points: Proven, Probable, Possible, Disproven.

Abbreviations: FS, FamilySearch (Family Tree person IDs like K456-M23; record IDs like 1:1:MHJM-784); FaG, Find a Grave; FG, Josephine C. Frost, The Frost Genealogy: Descendants of William Frost of Oyster Bay, New York (Brooklyn, 1912); UG, Josephine C. Frost, Underhill Genealogy, vol. 2 (1932); TT, Tacoma Times (read as page OCR on Chronicling America, loc.gov, title sn88085187); HDC, History of Dodge County, Wisconsin (Western Historical Co., 1880); Gilmore, Jean Fairchild Gilmore, Early Fairchilds in America and Their Descendants (1991) and her later More Fairchilds in America additions; Humphreys, Frederick Humphreys, The Humphreys Family in America (1883). Quaker dates are given as written ("3rd of 4th mo.") with the Old Style month counted from March.

A note on newspapers. The Tacoma Times and other Chronicling America papers were read as machine OCR of the page, not the image. Quotations from them are faithful to the OCR with obvious misreadings corrected. Before any of them is quoted in finished writing, the page image should be checked.

What this pass found

  1. Lucile's parents were Alfred Ross McMillan and Florence Bell Frost, married at Spokane on 23 January 1904. The marriage record names both sets of parents: "Wm McMillian" and "Helen Adams," and "Geo W Frost" and "Lucy Dell" (Bell). It gives Alfred's age as 22 and Florence's as 18. Alfred was born in January 1884, so he was 20.
  2. The "pharmacist" of family lore is Alfred himself, with his brother Everett. McMillan Bros., druggists, of Tacoma, ran two or three stores on C Street (later Broadway) from about 1905. They added phonographs in 1917 and pianos in 1925. The firm still appears in 1942 and in a 1949-50 directory. In October 1917 police raided the store at 1111 Broadway and seized 157 quarts of whisky. Alfred defended himself in court, a jury could not agree, and the case was dropped in January 1918.
  3. Two McMillan brothers married two Frost sisters. George Emmett McMillan married Dora Belle Frost on 26 July 1905, eighteen months after Alfred married Florence.
  4. The McMillan line is documented back to Malcolm McMillan of Lochaber, Antigonish County, Nova Scotia. Duncan McMillan's parents are named as Malcolm and Mary in three records: his 1874 Nova Scotia marriage register, an 1886 Wisconsin marriage, and his 1889 Wisconsin death record. Rankin's 1929 county history names a Malcolm McMillan as one of the men who settled at Lochaber Lake about 1810 and named it after their home in Lochaber, Scotland. Nothing above Malcolm is documented. The chain on FamilySearch above him (John McMillan and Ann Kennedy, then a Duncan of Stevenston and Shelburne, a Malcom John of Kintyre and North Carolina, and a John of Bute) joins unrelated men of the same names and should be detached.
  5. Duncan's first wife Mary was probably a daughter of William McMillan and Penuel MacDougall of Glen Urquhart, Inverness-shire, who emigrated to Pictou in 1818 and settled at South River, Antigonish (Dobson, citing the Gaelic Society of Inverness). The family's use of the rare names Penuel and Alpin, a Penuel McMillan buried at South Beaver Dam in February 1870 aged 88, and a John McMillan household in Calamus in 1850 with children Penuel and Alpin all fit. FamilySearch gives this William a death in Scotland in 1875 as a pauper; that record belongs to another man.
  6. Duncan married three times: Mary McMillan in Nova Scotia in 1839; Mary Ann Cameron at Lochaber, Nova Scotia, on 26 August 1874; and Maggie Heinig in Jefferson County, Wisconsin, on 2 September 1886. His son Malcolm, of Co. C, 16th Wisconsin Infantry, was wounded at Shiloh and died at Camp Dennison, Ohio, on 11 May 1862.
  7. William McMillan (Alfred's father) married Harriet Ellen Adams at Fall River, Columbia County, Wisconsin. The marriage index dates this 12 September 1862, which would make Harriet 14. The 1900 census says they had been married 35 years, which points to 1865. In 1880 William was "Farming & Teaching" in Rock Township, Mitchell County, Iowa. The family was in Minnesota in 1884 and in Washington Territory by June 1887. The "Ward County, Texas" residence on FamilySearch for 1900 is wrong; the 1900 census record itself is Tacoma.
  8. George W. Frost (Florence's father) was a banker in California, not Spokane as FamilySearch says. He was a director of the Cloverdale Banking and Commercial Company in 1884 and its cashier and secretary, and in October 1886 he became cashier of the new City Bank of Santa Cruz. His wife Lucy died at Santa Cruz on 29 March 1887, when Florence was eighteen months old. He married Susie Myers at Cloverdale in August 1888, was in Washington by 1892 and was at Spokane by 1900. In 1902 he was one of five men who bought 37,721 acres of railroad land in the Moxee valley near Yakima.
  9. Stephen G. Frost (Florence's grandfather) was town clerk and then board chairman of Sugar Creek, Wisconsin, in the 1850s. He was a city councilman at Monticello, Iowa, in 1868, a lumber dealer at Harlan, Iowa, in 1880, and a voter at Cloverdale, California, in 1884 and 1888. In Spokane an S. G. Frost owned the Spokane Marble Works in the 1890s. Stephen died there in 1919 aged 92. He had left home at twelve.
  10. The colonial Frost line is set out in the 1912 Frost Genealogy from Stephen back six generations to William Frost of Setauket and Matinecock, Long Island (d. 1719). That book prints Lucile's own birth at Tacoma on p. 267. The elder William's wife Rebecca Wright had a first marriage to Eleazer Leverich, which Governor Lovelace's council declared void in October 1670 on the report of surgeons and "Sober Matrons." It is believed to be the first divorce granted by that court. William's son William was killed in 1728 when a beef carcass he was slaughtering fell on him.
  11. The Revolutionary War service and pension FamilySearch attaches to George Frost (1760-1830) do not belong to him. He was a Quaker who married at the Creek Meeting House in December 1781 and kept receiving Friends' certificates afterwards. The pensioner was probably George P. Frost of Ulster County.
  12. William H. Bell's father was John M. Bell, born about 1804 in New York to Irish-born parents, who was living with him at Elkhorn in 1880. FamilySearch's link to "Capt." John Bell (1791-1886), the Greenfield tavern keeper, is contradicted by that census. William H. Bell was a carpenter and Walworth County coroner from 1874 to 1880.
  13. George W. Frost and Lucy Ellen Bell were second cousins. Both descend from Jonathan Fairchild (1744-c.1815) of East Jewett, Greene County, New York: George through his mother Elizabeth Fairchild, and Lucy through her mother Adeline Fairchild. This rests on compiled sources only and is rated Probable. Frances Fairchild Holbrook's middle name presumably comes from this double Fairchild descent [I].
  14. Harriet Ellen Adams's parents Robert Adams and Caroline Humphrey are confirmed by the 1850 census, her marriage index entry, and her sister Marian's records. Caroline's mother Hannah Enos was a daughter of Joseph Enos by his third wife, Abigail Keyes of Ashford, not "Abigail Chaffee" as FamilySearch has it.

The tree

Ahnentafel numbers from Lucile (1). Link ratings in brackets refer to the link between that person and the child above. Births, marriages and deaths in Part One carry their sources; this outline is for orientation.

  • 1. Lucile McMillan. b. 17 Sep 1905, Tacoma, Wash.; m. May 1927, San Jose, Calif., Richard Clifford Holbrook (1902-1955); d. 1 Aug 1996 (Lacey, Wash., per family records); bur. University Place, Pierce Co.
    • 2. Alfred Ross McMillan [Proven]. b. 21 Jan 1884, Park Rapids, Hubbard Co., Minn.; m. 23 Jan 1904, Spokane; d. 20 Nov 1966, Tacoma.
      • 4. William McMillan [Proven]. b. 1841/2, Nova Scotia; m. Fall River, Columbia Co., Wis., 1862 or 1865; d. 15 Mar 1927, Tacoma.
        • 8. Duncan McMillan [Proven]. b. c. 1812-1816, Lochaber, Antigonish Co., N.S.; m. (1) 1839, N.S., (2) 26 Aug 1874, Lochaber, (3) 2 Sep 1886, Jefferson Co., Wis.; d. 19 Nov 1889, Beaver Dam, Wis.
          • 16. Malcolm McMillan [Proven by name; his identity with Rankin's Malcolm of Lochaber Lake, Probable]. Settled Lochaber Lake c. 1810; living 1838.
          • 17. Mary [Proven by first name only]. Surname unknown.
          • Above 16 and 17: nothing documented. The FamilySearch chain is Disproven (see 32 ff.).
        • 9. Mary McMillan [Proven]. b. c. 1819; d. 8 or 9 Sep 1872, Calamus, Dodge Co., Wis.
          • 18. William McMillan [Probable]. Of Glen Urquhart; to Nova Scotia 1818.
          • 19. Penuel MacDougall [Probable]. d. Feb 1870, aged 88, bur. South Beaver Dam, Wis.
      • 5. Harriet Ellen Adams [Proven]. b. Jan 1848 (or Feb 1847), Wisconsin; d. 31 Jul 1926, Tacoma.
        • 10. Robert Adams [Proven]. b. c. 1820, N.Y.; d. 1909, Iowa.
        • 11. Caroline Humphrey [Proven]. b. 22 Mar 1814, Richmond, Ontario Co., N.Y.; d. 1889, Iowa.
          • 22. Joseph Humphrey [Probable, compiled]. b. 16 Mar 1782, Windham Co., Conn.; d. 1864 or 1866, Whitewater, Wis.
              1. Ebenezer Humphrey [Probable, compiled]; 45. Lucy Robbins [Probable, compiled].
          • 23. Hannah Enos [Probable, compiled]. b. 31 May 1781, Union, Conn.; d. 1855, Whitewater.
              1. Joseph Enos (b. 1721) [Probable]; 47. Abigail Keyes of Ashford [Probable; FS "Abigail Chaffe" Disproven].
    • 3. Florence Bell Frost [Proven]. b. 12 Sep 1885, Cloverdale, Sonoma Co., Calif.; d. 20 Jan 1957, Tacoma.
      • 6. George William Frost [Proven]. b. 16 Apr 1850, Heart Prairie, Walworth Co., Wis.; m. (1) 31 Dec 1876, Elkhorn, Wis., (2) 23 Aug 1888, Cloverdale; d. 26 Oct 1925, Tacoma.
        • 12. Stephen George Frost [Proven]. b. 26 Oct 1826, Rensselaerville, Albany Co., N.Y.; m. 27 May 1849, Windham, N.Y.; d. 2 May 1919, Spokane.
          • 24. George Frost [Proven]. b. 23 Feb or 23 Mar 1791; m. 6 Mar 1824; d. 28 Jun 1860, bur. Heart Prairie, Wis.
            • 48. George Frost [Proven, compiled]. b. 11 Mar 1760; m. 26 Dec 1781, Creek Meeting House; d. 18 Sep 1830.
              • 96. Isaac Frost [Proven, compiled]. b. 3rd of 4th mo. 1717, Matinecock, L.I.; m. license 3 Mar 1737/8; d. after 1798, Clinton, Dutchess Co.
                • 192. William Frost [Proven, compiled]. b. 1674, Matinecock; d. 29 Nov 1728.
                  • 384. William Frost [Proven, compiled]. b. before 1635; d. 19 Nov 1719, Matinecock.
                  • 385. Rebecca Wright [Proven, compiled]. Daughter of Nicholas and Ann Wright.
                • 193. Hannah Prior (Pryer) [Proven, compiled]. b. 22 Oct 1681; d. 18 Dec 1771. Daughter of John Prior and Elizabeth Bowne.
              • 97. Mary Cock [Proven, compiled]. b. 1722, Buckram (Locust Valley), L.I. Daughter of James Cock and Hannah Feake.
            • 49. Sarah Underhill [Proven, compiled]. b. 1761; d. 5 Oct 1834. Daughter of Thomas Underhill and Mercy Dickinson.
          • 25. Abigail Tanner [Proven as wife; parents unknown]. Widow of Henry Showerman.
        • 13. Elizabeth Fairchild [Proven]. b. 1 or 21 Apr 1830, East Jewett, Greene Co., N.Y.; d. 6 or 8 May 1889, Cloverdale.
          • 26. Richard C. Fairchild [Proven]. b. 27 Apr 1808, East Jewett; d. 1 Jun 1882, Marion, Linn Co., Iowa.
              1. Jonathan Fairchild [Probable, compiled]; 53. Elizabeth, probably Cooper [Possible].
          • 27. Nancy Woodworth [Proven]. b. 12 Dec 1808; d. 15 Sep 1891, Marion, Iowa.
      • 7. Lucy Ellen Bell [Proven]. b. 2 Feb 1858, Elkhorn, Wis.; d. 29 Mar 1887, Santa Cruz, Calif.
        • 14. William Hamilton Bell [Proven]. b. c. 1829, N.Y.; m. 1849/50; d. 1887 or 1888, place unresolved.
          • 28. John M. Bell [Proven by the 1880 census]. b. c. 1804, N.Y., of Irish-born parents. FS's John Bell (1791-1886) and Sally Harrington: Disproven.
        • 15. Adeline Asenath Fairchild [Proven]. b. 27 Mar 1829, Hunter, Greene Co., N.Y.; d. 17 Mar 1891, St. Cloud, Minn.
          • 30. John Fairchild [Probable]. b. 1803, East Jewett; d. 3 Feb 1867, Heart Prairie, Wis.
              1. Jonathan Fairchild = 52 above [Probable, compiled]; 61. = 53.
          • 31. Catherine Clawson (Closson) [Probable]. bapt. 1807, Claverack, N.Y.; d. 29 Jul 1831, Hunter, N.Y.

Part One: The McMillan side

1. Lucile McMillan (1905 - 1996)

Vital facts

  • Born 17 Sept 1905, Tacoma [D, Washington county birth register, FS 1:1:DY6M-TTN2; FG p. 267, "Lucile, b. Tacoma, Wash., Sept. 17, 1905"].
  • Married May 1927, San Jose, California, Richard Clifford Holbrook (1902-1955) [C, family research; newspaper report of 15 May 1927 cited in the Collins-Reed tree].
  • Died 1 Aug 1996, aged 90 [D, Social Security Death Index]. Lacey, Wash., per family records. Buried University Place, Pierce Co. [C, FaG index, as "Lucille McMillan Holbrook"].

Link: Proven (1910 and 1920 censuses in her parents' household; FG p. 267).

Spelling. "Lucile" in the 1910, 1920, 1930 and 1940 censuses, the 1941 passenger list and FG; "Lucille" on her FaG memorial and in family use.

Records

  • 1910, Tacoma Ward 8, aged 4, with Alfred and Florence [D, FS 1:1:MGJZ-DB7]. 1920, Tacoma, aged 14 [D, 1:1:MHJM-78C].
  • 1930, San Francisco, wife of Richard C. Holbrook, aged 24 [D, 1:1:XCN7-CZV].
  • 1940, Representative District 4, Honolulu, with Richard and Frances, aged 8 [D, 1:1:VB96-CLX].
  • 1941, arrived at San Francisco as a U.S. citizen, "Lucile M. Holbrook," aged 35, born Tacoma [D, 1:1:WBX3-PWZM].
  • The Holbrook and Collins-Reed files hold the rest of her married life (Pearl Harbor, Guam, Arkansas).

Sources: FS GH5P-ZTN and the records above; FG p. 267.

2. Alfred Ross McMillan (1884 - 1966)

Vital facts

  • Born 21 Jan 1884, "Park Rakids [Rapids], Minnesota" (his own WWII draft registration, 1942) [D, FS 1:1:QVJT-NK24]. The 1900 census agrees on January 1884 and Minnesota [D]. The 1910, 1920 and 1930 censuses give Wisconsin, and name his mother's birthplace as Pennsylvania [D]; these are informant errors.
  • Married 23 Jan 1904, Spokane, Florence Frost [D, Washington county marriages, FS 1:1:QPM1-NWPH and 1:1:QPMT-SQFZ; FG p. 267]. The record gives "A R M McMillian," aged 22, and "Florena Frost," 18, and names his parents "Wm McMillian" and "Helen Adams" and hers "Geo W Frost" and "Lucy Dell." He was 20.
  • Died 20 Nov 1966, Tacoma, aged 82 [D, Pierce County death register, 1:1:6FVF-R16H; Washington Death Index]. Buried New Tacoma Cemetery, University Place [C, FaG index].

Link: Proven. The 1900 census places him in William and Harriet McMillan's household [D]; his marriage record names them [D]; his brother George's 1936 obituary lists "Alfred R. McMillan" among the surviving brothers [D index].

Life

  • A child of the family's moves: born in Minnesota, in Washington Territory by 1887, at Tacoma by 1900 aged 16, single, in his parents' household [D, 1900 census, 1:1:MMPP-ZVR].
  • Married at Spokane at 20, giving his age as 22. Florence's father and grandfather lived in Spokane.
  • McMillan Bros., druggists. Alfred (A. R.) and his elder brother E. E. ("Everett") McMillan ran the business. The Tacoma Times said in March 1915 that "they have been in business here 10 years" [D, TT 23 Mar 1915, p. 8], which puts the start about 1905. The record of the firm:
    • Jan-Feb 1909: advertisements for "Anti-Rheum," "Sold Exclusively by McMillan BROS. DRUGGISTS 949 C St. Fidelity Bldg." [D, TT 2 Jan and 18 Feb 1909, p. 8].
    • Aug 1909: a branch at 17th (or 18th) and C streets, in the Carlton Hotel building: "McMillan Bros., druggists, are to be congratulated upon a fine new store" [D, TT 19 Aug 1909, p. 5].
    • 15 Dec 1910: "Special Opening Day at Their New Store Corner Thirteenth and C Streets," billed as "the prettiest drug store in Tacoma" [D, TT 14 Dec 1910, p. 3]. Two stores by the end of the year, agents for Squibb, Parke Davis, Wyeth, Mulford and Lilly [D, TT 28 Dec 1910, p. 8]. A new soda fountain opened 1 Apr 1911 [D, TT 30 Mar 1911, p. 2].
    • Mar 1912: "Kapowsin: The McMillan Bros., of Tacoma, have purchased the Sargent drug store" [D, Pharmaceutical Era 45 (1912): 234].
    • Dec 1914: "McMillan Brothers Retail DRUGGISTS Wholesale," 949 C St. (Fidelity Bldg.) and 1301 C St. (Merchants Hotel) [D, TT 4 Dec 1914, p. 3]. Jan 1915: "Free Rapid Motorcycle Delivery" [D, TT 8 Jan 1915, p. 7, partly reconstructed OCR].
    • Mar 1915: "The McMillan Brothers, druggists, have announced that they will add a third store to their present holdings. The new property under their management is to be the old Ryner Malstrom store, 1111 Broadway, which they have just bought... The brothers, E. E. and A. R., already own the McMillan stores at 949 and 1301 Broadway" [D, TT 23 Mar 1915, p. 8]. C Street had been renamed Broadway.
    • 1916-1917: "McMillan Bros., Props.," Broadway Drug Store, 1111 Broadway, and Fidelity Drug Store, 949 Broadway [D, TT advertisements]. In March 1916 the paper called Alfred "proprietor of the Broadway Drug Co." [D, TT 23 Mar 1916, p. 1].
    • May 1917: an exclusive Tacoma agency for a phonograph that played any make of record; the Broadway store "remodeled, with a balcony added, devoted entirely to the phonograph department" [D, TT 26 May 1917, p. 2; brand lost in the OCR].
    • Aug 1924: the drugstore in the Jonathan Smith Building, 911-13 Broadway [D, Tacoma Public Library, Boland photograph B10770, 22 Aug 1924].
    • Jan 1925: "A new music department, handling pianos, Brunswick phonographs, latest music rolls and musical merchandise, has just been opened by McMillan Bros., located in the Darmer Building, 1111 Broadway... The firm, which has been long established in the retail drug business at this address, has remodeled its quarters... The music end of the business will be conducted on the mezzanine and second floors" [D, Talking Machine World, 15 Jan 1925, p. 99].
    • c. 1926: Tacoma Public Library photographs A-874 and Boland B13994 show the store at 11th and Broadway; the library's caption describes three stores combining a drugstore with pianos, phonographs and records, owned by "Everett and Alfred McMillan" [C, library descriptions; images not yet seen].
    • c. 1930: McMillan Bros. among the businesses visible in a Boland photograph of the W. R. Rust building (B22017) [C, Archives West finding aid].
    • 1941: "Drugs: McMillan Bros., $107.03" in a city purchases list [D, TT 24 May 1941, p. 9]. Sept 1942: "McMillan Bros. Drug Co., 85[?] Broadway, lost a $35 camera from a display window" [D, TT 24 Sept 1942, p. 2].
    • 1949-50: "McMillan, E E, McMillan Bros." in the index of Capitol's Who's Who for Washington [C, snippet only].
    • Fred Ludwig, later founder of the Ludwig drug chain, worked "for a short time" in McMillan Brothers' drug store as a young man [C, Bonney, History of Pierce County (1927), vol. III, p. 475].
  • No pharmacist's license has yet been found for either brother; the papers call Alfred "druggist" and "proprietor." Whether either was a registered pharmacist is open.
  • Social life. A 1915 gossip column calls him "Alfred McMillan ('Doc')" [D, TT 31 Mar 1915, p. 4]. A golfer at the Lakeside Country Club in 1915-1916 and vice-president of the new Meadow Park Golf Club, July 1916; Mrs. A. R. McMillan also played [D, TT 29 July, 10 July and 9 Sept 1916]. A director of the Tacoma Speedway Association, March 1916 [D, TT 23 Mar 1916, p. 1].
  • The liquor case, 1917-1918. (Background: Washington's statewide prohibition law took effect in 1916, after which druggists could sell liquor only on prescription.)
    • The paper printed lists of liquor shipped to McMillan Bros. in August and September 1917 [D, TT 19 Sept 1917, p. 8].
    • On 1 Oct 1917 police seized from "McMillan Bros.: Whisky, 157 quarts; gin, 18 quarts; alcohol, one barrel" [D, TT 2 Oct 1917, p. 5]. A warrant for A. R. McMillan was held until he returned from a business trip [D, TT 3 Oct 1917, p. 5]. He pleaded not guilty and "appeared for himself" [D, TT 8 Oct 1917, p. 1].
    • The trial was continued in early December because he was duck hunting on the La Conner flats: "Whether McMillan got any ducks it did not say" [D, TT 3 Dec 1917, p. 1]. A doctor's certificate in the case gives his address as 1906 North "Junette" (Junett) Street [D, TT 1 Dec 1917]. A third postponement followed for illness [D, TT 5 Dec 1917, p. 7].
    • Trial opened 18 Dec 1917 on a charge of keeping liquor at 1111 Broadway with intent to sell unlawfully [D, TT 18 Dec 1917, p. 5]. His testimony: "The McMillan drug store at 1111 Broadway received a shipment of 120 quarts of whisky just one hour before the police raided the store on Oct. 1, according to the testimony of Alfred R. McMillan... These 120 quarts, he said, were to meet the prescription demands of the two McMillan Brothers' stores on Broadway for two weeks." He estimated that whisky sales had risen by about a third since the federal law ended the permit system [D, TT 19 Dec 1917, p. 7].
    • The jury could not agree after 24 hours [D, TT 22 Dec 1917, p. 2]. "DROP TRIAL OF M'MILLAN": dismissed on the prosecutor's motion [D, TT 25 Jan 1918, p. 1].
    • In the same weeks McMillan Bros. was among the stores applying for city liquor licenses [D, TT 28 Nov 1917, p. 1].
  • 1910, Tacoma Ward 8; 1920 and 1930, Tacoma [D]. In 1930 the household included "Alice McMillan," 2, born Washington about 1928, entered as a daughter [D, 1:1:XC3T-RMW]. Who she was is open; Florence was then about 42.
  • 1942: registered for the WWII "old man's" draft at Tacoma, aged 58 [D].

Spouse: Florence Bell Frost (3).

Siblings (children of William and Harriet; nine born, all nine living in 1900 [D, 1900 census]): William E. (b. c. 1866/7, Iowa); George Emmett (1868/9-1936); Malcolm D. (1870/1-1920); Alice Emily (b. 1872, Mrs. Alice E. Hilley of Enumclaw in 1936); Roy Duncan (1877-1964); Fred Wheeler (1878/9-1954); Everett E. (b. Sept 1881, Iowa); Alfred; Frank Harold (b. June 1887, Washington; d. 1974). See 4 for notes.

  • Everett E. McMillan, Alfred's partner. "Everet" in the 1900 census; "Everett E." in George's 1936 obituary index; "Edward E." on FS (GXYX-LXN), for which no source has been found. His wife was Cleora Brown, a contralto at the First Congregational Church who sang in the Tacoma premiere of Reynolds's opera Ninasicha in 1912 [D, TT 24 Apr 1909, p. 4; Musical America, 15 June 1912]. A director of the Puget Sound Bank & Trust Co. in 1917-1918, "E. E. McMillan, McMillan Bros., Druggists" [D, TT 18 Jan 1917, p. 8; 13 Mar 1918, p. 7]. Burglars entered his apartment at the Hillcrest in January 1918 and took a gold band ring and jewelry [D, TT 8 Jan 1918, p. 7, poor OCR].
  • George Emmett McMillan married Florence's sister Dora Belle Frost on 26 July 1905 [C, FG p. 267, as "George C. McMillan"]. He died at Seattle 16 Feb 1936 aged 67, a janitor; survived by his wife Dora B., a daughter Mrs. R. L. Sullivan of San Francisco, his brothers William E. (Seattle), Roy D., Fred W., Everett E., Alfred R. and Frank H., and his sister Mrs. Alice E. Hilley of Enumclaw [D, obituary index, Seattle, 18 Feb 1936, FS 1:1:Q5QF-BKPC; death certificate 1:1:N35R-1HQ].
  • Fred Wheeler McMillan died at Tacoma 22 Feb 1954 aged 75; wife Grace [D, death certificate 1:1:N3BX-MQ1]. His middle name matches his uncle by marriage Cyrus Wheeler (see 5) [I].
  • Malcolm D. McMillan died at Tacoma 8 Nov 1920 aged 50 [D, 1:1:N3G8-FKQ].

Open questions: when and why McMillan Bros. was founded and when it closed; whether Alfred or Everett held a pharmacy license, and where they trained; who Alice (b. c. 1928) was; Alfred's and Florence's obituaries; the meaning of "Ross."

Sources: FS K456-M23; 1900-1930 censuses; WWII draft registration; Washington county marriages; Pierce County death register; Tacoma Times 1909-1942 as cited; Pharmaceutical Era 45 (1912); Musical America (15 June 1912); Talking Machine World (15 Jan 1925), p. 99; Tacoma Public Library Northwest Room photographs; Bonney (1927); FG p. 267.

3. Florence Bell Frost (1885 - 1957)

Vital facts

  • Born 12 Sept 1885, Cloverdale, Sonoma County, California [C, FG p. 267]. The 1900 census gives September 1886 [D].
  • Married 23 Jan 1904, Spokane, Alfred Ross McMillan [D].
  • Died 20 Jan 1957, Tacoma, aged 71. Buried New Tacoma Cemetery, University Place, as "Florence Bell Frost McMillan" [C, FaG index].

Link: Proven. Her marriage record names "Geo W Frost" and "Lucy Dell" [D]; she is in George W. Frost's household in 1900 [D]; FG p. 267.

Life

  • Born at Cloverdale while her father was cashier of the town's bank. Her mother died at Santa Cruz on 29 Mar 1887, when Florence was eighteen months old. Her father remarried in August 1888.
  • 1900, Spokane, aged 14, with her father, her stepmother Susanna and her half-sisters Ella, May and Nanon [D, FS 1:1:MMPB-46G].
  • Married at 18.
  • Mrs. A. R. McMillan played golf at Tacoma in 1916 [D, TT].
  • 1910-1930, Tacoma, with Alfred [D].

Siblings

  • Full sister Dora Belle Frost, b. 4 Dec 1880, Harlan, Iowa (delayed Iowa birth record names her parents Geo. W. Frost and Lucy Ellen Bell [D index]); m. 26 July 1905 George Emmett McMillan, Alfred's brother [C, FG]; a daughter Harriett B., b. 1907 [C, FG p. 267], presumably the Mrs. R. L. Sullivan of San Francisco named in 1936 [I]; d. 1969.
  • Half-sisters, daughters of Susanna Myers: Ella Susie (b. Sept 1889, California; d. 1988); May Elizabeth (b. May 1892, Washington), whose engagement to William Meissner of Tacoma was announced in 1915, the paper calling her "a former Tacoma girl" [D, TT 30 Apr 1915, p. 5]; Nanon Alida (b. Apr 1894, Washington; d. 7 Mar 1944, Medical Lake, Spokane Co. [D, death certificate naming George W. Frost and "Susie Meyer"]).

Open questions: her obituary (Jan 1957); whether the family lived in Tacoma before Spokane, as the 1915 notice about May implies.

Sources: FS K69J-X92; FG p. 267; 1900-1930 censuses; Washington county marriages; FaG index.

4. William McMillan (1841/2 - 1927)

Vital facts

  • Born Nova Scotia. September 1841 (1900 census) [D]; about 6 Mar 1842 by the age on his death certificate, "85 years 9 days" [D, FS 1:1:N3PX-GXK]; c. 1843 (1880 census, aged 37). Came to the United States in 1845 (1900 census) [D].
  • Married Harriet E. Adams at Fall River, Columbia County, Wisconsin. Index date 12 Sept 1862 [D, Wisconsin Marriages, FS 1:1:XRLS-C6G, Columbia Co. certificate no. 02652, FS film 1275881]. The index names his parents Duncan and Mary McMillen and hers Robert and Caroline Adams, and gives his birthplace as Nova Scotia. The 1900 census says they had been married 35 years, that is, about 1865 [D]. Harriet was born about January 1848 (see 5), so in Sept 1862 she was 14. Their first child was born about 1866/7. The certificate image should settle the year.
  • Died 15 Mar 1927, Tacoma, aged 85 [D, death certificate]. Obituary in a Tacoma paper the same day, indexed as "merchant," aged 85 [D index, GenealogyBank via FS 1:1:Q5QR-3NFR]. Buried Mountain View Memorial Park, Lakewood [C, FaG 43882380].

Link to Duncan: Proven (1860 census in Duncan's household; the marriage index naming Duncan and Mary; HDC (1880) listing a son William).

Life

  • Aged about four when his parents left Nova Scotia for Wisconsin in 1845. 1850 and 1860, Calamus, Dodge County [D]. His younger brother Malcolm died of wounds received at Shiloh in May 1862 (see 8). No Civil War service has been found for William.
  • After marrying, in Iowa by about 1866: sons William E. (b. c. 1867) and George (b. 1869) were born there. Back in Calamus in 1870, a household of four [D, 1870 census, 1:1:MN9H-XSV]. Then Iowa again: Malcolm D. (1871), Alice (1872), Roy (1877), Fred (1879) and Everett (Sept 1881) were born in Iowa [D, 1880 and 1900 censuses].
  • 1880, Rock Township, Mitchell County, Iowa: "Wm. McMillen," 37, "Farming & Teaching," born Canada, father born Nova Scotia, mother born Scotland; wife "Hellen H.," 32; six children and a boarder born in Wisconsin to German parents [D, 1:1:MDLQ-K3F]. Harriet's parents were in neighbouring Worth County.
  • Minnesota: Alfred born at Park Rapids, Hubbard County, in January 1884 [D].
  • Washington Territory by June 1887, when Frank was born there [D, 1900 census].
  • 1900, Tacoma, with Harriet and sons Malcolm, Everett, Alfred and Frank [D, 1:1:MMPP-ZVL]. FS's 1900 residence "Justice Precinct 1, Ward, Texas" is a misplaced standardization; the census record is Tacoma. Disproven.
  • 1910 and 1920, Tacoma [D].
  • March 1911: "William McMillan filed a petition... asking to be appointed guardian of his grandchildren, Barbara, Irene and Frankie McMillan" [D, TT 30 Mar 1911, p. 8]. Whether this is this William is not established (Possible).

Spouse: Harriet Ellen Adams (5).

Children: see 2.

Open questions: the marriage year; what he did in Tacoma ("merchant" in the obituary index); the move from Minnesota to Washington, 1884-1887; his obituary text.

Sources: FS LR2B-Q1Z; 1860-1920 censuses; Wisconsin Marriages; Washington death certificate; GenealogyBank obituary index; FaG.

5. Harriet Ellen Adams (1847/8 - 1926)

Vital facts

  • Born about 5 Jan 1848, Wisconsin, by the age on her death certificate, "78 years 6 months 26 days" [D, FS 1:1:N3P4-XHJ]. FS gives 5 Feb 1847 at Fall River, Columbia Co., without a source. The 1850 census gives her age as 2 [D]; the 1880 and 1900 censuses give 1848 [D]. Her sister Marian was born in Columbia County in 1854 [D], and the family were "early settlers of Columbia Co., Wis." [C, History of Mitchell and Worth Counties (1884), p. 468].
  • Called Ellen or Helen: "Hellen H." (1880), "Helen Adams" (son's 1904 marriage), "Ellen Adams" (sons' death certificates).
  • Died 31 July 1926, Tacoma [D]; buried 2 Aug 1926, Mountain View Memorial Park [C, FaG 43882366]. Her death certificate gives her father only as "Adams" and her mother as "Unknown."

Link to Robert and Caroline Adams: Proven. 1850 census, Richmond, Walworth Co., Wis.: Robert Adams, 30, Caroline, 36, Harriet E., 2 [D, 1:1:M4DP-LSB]; the Wisconsin marriage index names Robert and Caroline Adams as her parents [D]; Humphreys lists Caroline's children as Jerome B., Ellen and Marion [C].

Siblings

  • Jerome B. Adams (b. c. 1851): "was killed, accidentally, at La Crosse, Wis., about 1884. He was a cool, brave soldier" [C, Humphreys, as quoted; the date sits oddly with an 1883 publication and needs checking].
  • Marian (Marion) Emeline Adams, b. 18 May 1854, Wisconsin [D, Iowa Old Age Assistance record]; m. (1) 1874 Cyrus Wheeler [C, Mitchell and Worth history]; m. (2) 30 May 1895, Mitchell Co., Iowa, W. H. Yager, she a widow aged 41 born Columbia County [D, 1:1:XJLM-454]; d. 23 Sept 1940, Mitchell, Iowa, aged 87 [D, Iowa death record naming Robert Adams and Caroline Humphry].

Sources: FS LR2B-DHF; censuses 1850-1920; Washington death certificate; Iowa marriage and death records for Marian; Humphreys (1883), p. 914; History of Mitchell and Worth Counties (1884), p. 468.

8. Duncan McMillan (c. 1812 - 1889)

Vital facts

  • Born at Lochaber, Antigonish County, Nova Scotia [D, 1874 marriage register, "born Lochaber"]. The date is uncertain:
    • 10 Oct 1814, "near Lochaber Lake" (HDC, 1880, a biography supplied in his lifetime) [C].
    • 10 Oct 1816 (Wisconsin death record) [D].
    • About 1812 by his age at marriage in 1874 (62) and at death in 1889 (77) [D].
    • 1813, Nova Scotia (1850 and 1870 censuses); 1810, Scotland (1860 census) [D].
  • Married (1) 1839, Nova Scotia, Mary McMillan (9) [C, HDC].
  • Married (2) 26 Aug 1874, Lochaber, Mary Ann Cameron, spinster, 39, daughter of William and Jane Cameron, by license, Presbyterian, Rev. Jno. F. Forbes officiating; witnesses Hugh Cameron and Malcolm McMillan, the latter presumably a relative [D, Nova Scotia marriage registration 1874, book 1803, p. 51, no. 79; I]. Duncan is "62, widower, farmer," residence "Wisconsin U.S.," born Lochaber, parents "Malcolm & Mary."
  • Married (3) 2 Sep 1886, Jefferson County, Wisconsin, Maggie Heinig, daughter of Frederick Heinig and Katrina Dea. The index names Duncan's parents as Malcolm and Mary McMillan [D, Wisconsin Marriages, FS 1:1:XRJ2-9B4]. Her age is not in the index; FS's "b. 1864" for her has no source.
  • Died 19 Nov 1889, Beaver Dam: "Duncan McMillan, a resident of Dodge county since 1845, died at his home in Beaver Dam yesterday, aged 77 years" [D, Watertown Republican, 20 Nov 1889, p. 5]. The Wisconsin death record gives "Duncan Mcmullen," retired farmer, born 10 Oct 1816, Nova Scotia, parents "Malcon" and Mary, spouse Maggie, burial "Beaver Dam, south of" [D, FS 1:1:XL3Q-T2V].

Link to Malcolm and Mary: Proven as to the names (three independent records). Whether his father is the Malcolm whom Rankin names as a settler of Lochaber Lake is Probable (see 16).

Life

  • His own account, as printed in 1880:

DUNCAN McMILLAN, retired farmer, Beaver Dam; born in Nova Scotia, near Lochaber Lake, Oct. 10, 1814; came to America in 1845, and to Wisconsin the same year, locating in Calamus Township, Dodge Co., where he engaged in farming, which he followed until 1877, when he rented his farm and purchased a residence in the city of Beaver Dam, to which he moved and retired from active pursuits. Married, in Nova Scotia, in 1839, Miss Mary McMillan, of that place, who died Sept. 8, 1872. Married the second time, in Nova Scotia, Aug. 26, 1874, Miss Mary Cameron, also a native of that place, who was born May 8, 1835; has seven children living, two having died; those living are Mary, William, Alexander, Alfred, Pannie, Euphemia and Sarah; those dead are Malcolm and Daniel.

HDC (1880), p. 588.

  • 1850, Calamus: "Dunkin M'Mullen," 37, born Nova Scotia, dwelling 686 [D; the rest of the household is not indexed with him]. Nearby, dwelling 717: John McMillan, 34, born Scotland, wife Christine, children William (6, N.S.), Penuel (3, N.S.), John (2, Wis.), Alpin (1, Wis.), Isabel (infant), and Jesse, 29, born Scotland [D, 1:1:M4DF-QRK]. Also in Calamus: Hugh M'Mullen, 46, born Scotland, wife Susan, with sons Alexander, Donald, Malcolm and Dugald born in Nova Scotia 1838-1845 [D]. The Calamus McMillans were a cluster of Antigonish families.
  • 1860, Calamus: Duncan, 50 (born "Scotland"), Mary, 41 (Nova Scotia), Mary 20, William 18 and Malcolm 16 (all born Nova Scotia), and Daniel 14, Alexander 11, Alpin 9, "Pinwell" 6, Euphina 4 and Sarah A. (infant), born Wisconsin [D, 1:1:MWMP-DMJ]. Alpin (b. c. 1851) is presumably the "Alfred" of 1870 (b. c. 1852) and of the 1880 biography [I, Probable].
  • 1862: son Malcolm, 18, Co. C, 16th Wisconsin Infantry: "Wnd. Shiloh; died May 11, '62, Camp Dennison, O., wnds." [D, Roster of Wisconsin Volunteers (1886), vol. 2, p. 11]; "McMillan, Malcolm, Pvt., from Calamus" [C, Hetzel, Wisconsin Deaths at Shiloh].
  • 1870, Calamus: Duncan, 57, Mary, 51, Mary 29, Alexander 21, Alfred 18, "Pennie" 16, Euphemia 13, Sarah A. 10 [D, 1:1:MN9H-JSQ].
  • Daughter Mary married Henry Farr, 15 Oct 1871, and (as Mary Farr) George L. Stultz, 21 June 1881, both in Dodge Co. [D index]. Daughter Penuel married a Stewart and died 19 Feb 1883, buried Beaver Dam [C, FaG index]. Alfred d. 1881 and Sarah A. d. 1882 per FS [C].
  • Mary died September 1872. In the summer of 1874 Duncan went back to Lochaber and married Mary Ann Cameron there. Her family had come from Lochaber in Scotland to Lochaber, Antigonish County, about 1830 [C, Rankin, pp. 84-85].
  • 1877, retired to Beaver Dam. By 1886 Mary Ann was evidently dead or gone, and he married Maggie Heinig.
  • A son Alexander (b. 1849) probably stayed in Dodge County: an Alexander McMillan with a wife Lizzie (Zieske) and eleven children lived in Westford township in 1900, "of Scotch ancestry... an honored veteran of the Civil war" [C, Hubbell, Dodge County (1913), vol. 2, p. 405; D, 1900 census]. Identity with Duncan's son is Probable; a Wisconsin marriage index entry for Alexander McMillan and Lizzie A. Zieske names Duncan as father [D index, attached to Duncan on FS].

Spouses

  • Mary McMillan (9).
  • Mary Ann Cameron (b. 8 or 9 May 1835), daughter of William and Jane Cameron of Lochaber [D]. Her fate after 1880 is unknown.
  • Maggie Heinig, of Jefferson County, daughter of Frederick Heinig and Katrina Dea [D index]. Living 1889.

Open questions: Mary Ann Cameron's death; Duncan's grave (Leipsig Cemetery, about four miles southwest of Beaver Dam, holds Mary's); his probate (Dodge County, 1889-1890); his farm on the 1877/78 Snyder, Van Vechten map of Dodge County; Daniel's death; Malcolm's service record.

Sources: FS L6XR-DRD; HDC (1880), p. 588; Nova Scotia marriage registration 1874 (archives.novascotia.ca/vital-statistics/marriage/?ID=39058); Wisconsin marriage and death indexes; 1850-1870 censuses; Watertown Republican, 20 Nov 1889; Roster of Wisconsin Volunteers, vol. 2; Hubbell (1913); Rankin (1929).

9. Mary McMillan (c. 1819 - 1872)

Vital facts

  • Born about 1819. Nova Scotia per the 1860 and 1870 censuses [D]; Scotland per her son William's 1880 census entry ("mother born Scotland") [D].
  • Married 1839, Nova Scotia, Duncan McMillan [C, HDC].
  • Died 8 Sept 1872 (HDC) or 9 Sept (FS), Calamus. Buried Leipsig Cemetery, Beaver Dam [C, FaG index, "Mary McMillin"].

Parents: Probable: William McMillan and Penuel MacDougall.

  • Dobson, Directory of Scottish Settlers in North America, vol. 7: "McMILLAN, WILLIAM, Glen Urquhart, emigrated to Pictou, Nova Scotia, 1818, settled at South River, Antigonish, wife Penuel MacDougall, father of Donald, Alpine, etc." citing Transactions of the Gaelic Society of Inverness 53: 448 [C, read as a snippet only].
  • Duncan and Mary named daughters Penuel and Mary and a son Alpin [D, 1860 census].
  • John McMillan (b. c. 1816, Scotland) of Calamus named children Penuel and Alpin in the 1840s [D, 1850 census]. FS gives William and Penuel a son John (b. 1814) and a son Alpin [C]. John is probably Mary's brother [I, Probable].
  • "Penuel Ann MacMillan," d. February 1870, aged 88, buried South Beaver Dam, Dodge Co. [C, FaG index, 1:1:QVVP-RRYP]. Penuel thus came to Wisconsin and died near her daughter [I].
  • Against: if Mary was born in Scotland, as her son said in 1880, she was born before the 1818 emigration, which fits; if in Nova Scotia, as the 1860 and 1870 censuses say, after it, which also fits. Neither date contradicts the identification.

What is wrong on FamilySearch. FS gives William (L1W8-GHV) a christening at Urquhart on 6 Apr 1786 and a death in Scotland on 4 Sept 1875 as a "pauper" (Scottish civil registration). A man who emigrated in 1818 and whose wife died in Wisconsin in 1870 is unlikely to be that pauper. The death is Disproven as attached [I, strong]. FS also attaches Urquhart christenings of children down to 1830; any after 1818 belong to another couple [I]. The earlier ones (Euphin 1811, Donald 1812, John 1814, Janet 1816) may be theirs and should be checked against the parish register.

Sources: FS LRC7-64L, L1W8-GHV, L1W8-NY1; 1850-1880 censuses; HDC; Dobson vol. 7; FaG index.

16. Malcolm McMillan of Lochaber (living 1838)

What is documented

  • Named as Duncan's father, with wife Mary, in the 1874 Nova Scotia register, the 1886 Wisconsin marriage and the 1889 Wisconsin death record [D].
  • 1838 census of Nova Scotia, Dorchester Township, Sydney (later Antigonish) County: "Malcom McMillan," farmer, family of 6, listed near Donald McMillan, Alexander McMillan, Widow Cameron, a Widow McMillan (family of 8), John Cameron, Hugh McMillan and Duncan McEachern [D, Nova Scotia Archives, RG 1 vol. 449 no. 177].
  • Rankin, History of the County of Antigonish (1929): about 1810 Malcolm McMillan, Hugh McMillan and John Cameron, natives of Lochaber, settled near what had been called College Lake (from a 5,000-acre tract reserved for King's College) and renamed it Lochaber in honour of their native place [C, paraphrased; page not yet fixed]. Rankin's genealogy "MacMillan, of Lochaber" (about p. 324) describes three brothers (Malcolm, John and Hugh) and three sisters, the sisters marrying two John Camerons and an Archibald MacEachern; Malcolm's issue are given as Angus, Donald ("Squire"), Malcolm, John, and a daughter who married David Fisher. Duncan is not named [C].

Link to Duncan: the names are Proven. That Duncan's father is Rankin's Malcolm is Probable: Duncan was born at Lochaber c. 1812, just after the settlement, and emigrated in 1845, which may explain his absence from a list compiled in Nova Scotia [I].

Unverified on FS: born c. 1783 at Kilmallie, Inverness-shire; died 12 Apr 1840, buried North Lochaber Cemetery (FaG 156403634, not seen); wife "Mary McMillan" b. c. 1792 (her surname is not in any record seen; the Wisconsin marriage index simply gives the couple's surname). A second wife "Margaret Thomson (1785-1832)" is also attached.

The ship. FS's life sketch says Malcolm came in 1801 on the Nora from Fort William with his parents and seven siblings. A Nora carrying about 500 passengers from Fort William to Pictou in 1801, with smallpox aboard, appears in modern secondary works (Campey, citing MacLaren's Pictou Book, 1954), but no passenger list has been found, Patterson's 1877 History of the County of Pictou names the Sarah and the Pigeon for that year, and no source puts this family aboard. Possible at most. Rankin dates the Lochaber settlement to about 1810.

Sources: 1838 census; Rankin (1929; archive.org historyofcountyo0000rank); Patterson (1877), pp. 226-227; Campey, After the Hector.

32 and above. The McMillan chain on FamilySearch above Malcolm: Disproven

FS continues: John McMillan (c. 1760-c. 1830) and Ann Kennedy (1765-c. 1792) of "Glen Albyn," said to have named Lochaber lake; then Duncan McMillan (b. 1732 Stevenston, Ayrshire; d. 1827 Louis Head, Shelburne Co., N.S.; also "Duncan McNeil"), Katherin McEachern; Malcom John McMillan (1716 Kintyre - 1805 Cumberland Co., North Carolina) and Catherine McArthur of Jura; and John Malcolm McMillan (b. 1678 Kilbride, Bute) and Flora MacLean.

  • John and Ann have no sources at all. Ann is given a death about 1792 in Antigonish, nine years before the family is supposed to have emigrated, and a residence in Inverness in 1841.
  • Rankin credits the naming of Lochaber lake to Malcolm, Hugh and John Cameron, not to an older John.
  • Shelburne is a Loyalist town on the south shore of Nova Scotia; Cumberland County, North Carolina, was settled from Argyll; Stevenston and Bute are on the Firth of Clyde. None connects to Lochaber, Kilmallie, Urquhart or Antigonish.
  • Disproven as a chain. These persons should be detached from Malcolm. The family's Scottish origin in Lochaber (Kilmallie parish, Inverness-shire) is Probable from Rankin and the place-name; the parish of origin and parentage of Malcolm are unknown.

10 and 11. Robert Adams (c. 1820 - 1909) and Caroline Humphrey (1814 - 1889)

  • Robert Adams: born about 1820, New York [D, 1850 census]. 1850, Richmond, Walworth Co., Wis. [D]; early settlers of Columbia Co. [C]; 1880, Lincoln Township, Worth Co., Iowa [D]; 1900, Mitchell Co., Iowa [D]. Died 1909; buried Oakwood Cemetery, Plymouth, Cerro Gordo Co., Iowa [C, IAGenWeb transcription].
  • Caroline Humphrey: born 22 Mar 1814, Richmond, Ontario Co., N.Y. [C, Humphreys, p. 914]. Six years older than her husband [D, 1850 census]. Died 1889; buried Oakwood Cemetery, Plymouth [C].
  • Marriage date and place not found.
  • Children: Harriet Ellen (5), Jerome B., Marian Emeline (see 5).
  • Caroline's parents (22, 23): Joseph Humphrey, b. 16 Mar 1782, Windham Co., Conn.; m. about 1802 Hannah Enos; lived at Marcellus, then Steuben, Ontario and Chautauqua counties, N.Y., then Whitewater, Wis., where he died in 1864 aged 82 (Humphreys) or 6 Sept 1866 (FS) [C]. He and James G. Humphrey settled in Richmond Township, Walworth Co., in 1839 on Section 7 (FS's 1837 is James's date), and Joseph was elected a supervisor at the first town meeting, 5 Apr 1842 [C, History of Walworth County (1882), pp. 776-777]. "Deacon of the Baptist Church, and a man generally respected and beloved" [C, Humphreys]. Hannah Enos, b. 31 May 1781, Union, Conn., daughter of Joseph Enos (b. 20 Jan 1721) by his third wife Abigail Keyes of Ashford (m. 21 Dec 1778) [C, History of Union, Conn. (1893), pp. 339-340]; d. 1855 at Whitewater [C].
  • Joseph's parents (44, 45): Ebenezer Humphrey, born about 1725 in Windham or Tolland Co., Conn., or Massachusetts (FS's "1739 Ashford" is unsupported), who may belong to the family of Capt. Ebenezer Humphrey of Oxford, Mass.; and his second wife Lucy, daughter of Joseph Robbins, "deaf from her youth," who later married a Cheney and died in Chautauqua County in 1835 [C, Humphreys, pp. 913-915].
  • Caroline's brother Capt. Jasper Humphrey was "of a roving disposition; followed a sea-faring life for forty years," commanded steamers between Milwaukee and Grand Haven, and was later harbor master at Milwaukee [C, Humphreys].
  • Hannah Enos's mother on FS, "Abigail Chaffe," is Disproven by the Union history; whether Abigail Keyes was born a Chaffee is unknown. FS's Enos line above Joseph (James Eno, Hannah Birge, and the Windsor, Conn., families) and the Humphrey line above Ebenezer (Samuel Humphrey, Arthur Humphrey) have not been checked.

Part One (continued): The Frost side

6. George William Frost (1850 - 1925)

Vital facts

  • Born 16 Apr 1850, Heart Prairie, Walworth Co., Wisconsin [C, FG p. 267]. In the 1850 census, aged 4 months, "G W Frost," in the household of his grandfather Richard Fairchild at La Grange [D, 1:1:M4D5-G8Q].
  • Married (1) 31 Dec 1876, Elkhorn, Walworth Co., Lucy E. Bell [D, Wisconsin county marriages, 1:1:QK85-3FYZ, naming Stephen G. and Elizabeth Frost and William H. and Adeline Bell as parents; FG].
  • Married (2) 23 Aug 1888, Cloverdale, Sonoma Co., Calif., Susanna (Susie) Myers, aged 29, born Minnesota [D, California marriages, 1:1:41H5-LD3Z; FG gives her birth as 22 Feb 1859].
  • Died 26 Oct 1925, Tacoma [D, Pierce County death register]. Burial at Lakewood per FS [C].

Link: Proven (1850 and 1860 censuses with Stephen; the 1876 marriage index; the 1910 census listing Stephen G. Frost as "Father" in George's household [D, 1:1:MGJT-5LQ]).

Life

  • 1860, La Grange, aged 11, with Stephen and Elizabeth [D]. To Iowa with them in the mid-1860s.
  • 1876, married Lucy Bell at Elkhorn. 1880, Harlan, Shelby Co., Iowa, "Clerk In Lumber Yd," 34, with Lucy, 22 [D, 1:1:MDLN-99W]; his father was the lumber dealer. Dora Belle born there 4 Dec 1880. In summer 1881 "G. W. Frost" was on the subscription list for digging the cellar of Harlan's new opera house [C, Kenyon, Past and Present of Shelby County (1915), p. 239].
  • To California, about 1883 (FG says the family went in 1883).
  • Banking.
    • 28 Feb 1884: incorporation of "the Cloverdale Banking and Commercial Company, to manage and conduct a general banking business at Cloverdale, in Sonoma county. Directors, J. E. Chalfant, George W. Frost, Isaac E. Shaw, A. D. Starr, George W. Prescott. Capital stock, $200,000, divided into 2,000 shares" [D, Sacramento Daily Record-Union, 28 Feb 1884, p. 3]. The bank occupied a two-story brick building with a lodge room on the upper floor [C, Lewis, Illustrated History of Sonoma County (1889)].
    • 11 Sept 1885: "The Riverside Water Company has been incorporated; capital, $10,000 ... George W. Frost was appointed Treasurer" [D, Record-Union, 12 Sept 1885, p. 4]. Florence was born the next day.
    • 1887 San Francisco Business Directory, Cloverdale: the bank, "I E Shaw president, G W Frost cashier," and "Frost Geo W, secretary" [D; the data probably predate his move].
    • 27 Oct 1886: "A new banking corporation has been organized at Santa Cruz, to be called the City Bank. The capital stock will be $100,000. L. K. Baldwin is President, F. A. Hihn, Vice-President, and G. W. Frost, Cashier" [D, Record-Union, 29 Oct 1886, p. 2; Los Angeles Daily Herald, 28 Oct 1886, p. 1]. The bank opened in late December 1886 [C, Santa Cruz Public Library index to the Santa Cruz Daily Surf, 29 Dec 1886].
  • 29 Mar 1887: Lucy died at Santa Cruz.
  • The Santa Cruz library's index to the Daily Surf tags G. W. Frost on 2 July 1887 ("Cashier, Bank of Santa Cruz County," with E. J. Cox) and on 27 July 1887 ("Pistol accident," p. 3, col. 3). By 1 Sept 1887 W. C. Hoffman was cashier of the City Bank [C, index entries only; articles not read]. He seems to have left the City Bank within the year [I].
  • 23 Aug 1888, remarried at Cloverdale. Washington by 1889 or soon after (May born there May 1892).
  • 1900, Spokane, "married 11 years," with Susanna, Florence and three younger daughters [D, 1:1:MMPB-462].
  • About April 1902: "The Yakima Land & Live Stock Company was organized about April, 1902, by Dr. Hilscher, M. N. Kuppenberg, J. W. Oakes, G. W. Frost and George W. Stoltz. They purchased thirty-seven thousand, seven hundred and twenty-one acres of land in Yakima in the Moxie valley from the railroad company for one dollar and five cents per acre on the six-year payment plan" [D, Durham, History of the City of Spokane (1912), vol. 2, p. 462]. The passage goes on to the irrigation surveys that preceded the federal Kittitas project.
  • 1910, Spokane Ward 4, with Susanna, three daughters, his widowed father Stephen, 83, and a boarder [D]. FG (1911 data) says he and all his children lived in Spokane.
  • 1920, Spokane [D]. Died at Tacoma, 1925.
  • FS occupation "Banker, Spokane Falls": unsupported. He is not among the directors of the six Spokane Falls national banks in the 1891 Rand McNally Bankers' Directory or the Traders National officers [C]. His documented banking is in California.

Spouses

  • Lucy Ellen Bell (7).
  • Susanna (Susie) Myers (b. Feb 1859, Minnesota; d. 1930), father born Germany (1910 census) [D].

Open questions: the 1887 pistol accident; why he left Santa Cruz; his business in Spokane, 1889-1920 (city directories); his Tacoma obituary (Oct 1925).

Sources: FS 2Z38-5XC; FG p. 267; UG vol. 2, pp. 262-263; 1850-1920 censuses; marriage records; Sacramento Daily Record-Union 1884-1886; Los Angeles Daily Herald 1886; San Francisco Business Directory 1887; Santa Cruz Public Library local news index; Kenyon (1915); Durham (1912).

7. Lucy Ellen Bell (1858 - 1887)

Vital facts

  • Born 2 Feb 1858, Elkhorn, Walworth Co., Wisconsin [C, Gilmore's additions; FS].
  • Married 31 Dec 1876, Elkhorn, George W. Frost [D].
  • Died 29 Mar 1887, Santa Cruz, California, aged 29 [C, FG; Gilmore; FaG index "Lucy E. Bell Frost"].

Link: Proven (1860 and 1870 censuses with William H. and Adeline Bell; the 1876 marriage index naming them).

Life: 1860 Walworth and 1870 Elkhorn with her parents [D]. Married at 18. 1880, Harlan, Iowa (indexed "Lucy D. Frost," 22) [D]. Daughters Dora Belle (1880) and Florence (1885). Died at Santa Cruz five months after her husband became cashier of the City Bank. Her father died in 1887 or 1888.

Open questions: her death notice (Santa Cruz Surf or Sentinel, end of March 1887); her grave (FaG index gives Santa Cruz).

Sources: FS KPH2-526; censuses; Wisconsin county marriages; FG; Gilmore's More Fairchilds, p. 140.

12. Stephen George Frost (1826 - 1919)

Vital facts

  • Born 26 Oct 1826, Rensselaerville, Albany Co., New York [C, FG p. 191].
  • Married 27 May 1849, Windham, Greene Co., N.Y., Elizabeth Fairchild [C, FG; Gilmore's "Nassau co." from an LDS microfiche is less likely].
  • Died 2 May 1919, Spokane, aged 92 [D, death certificate, 1:1:N3GH-6FR, naming his father as George Frost]. Buried Greenwood Memorial Terrace, Spokane [C].

Link to George (24): Proven. FG p. 110 lists Stephen G. among George and Abigail's children [C]; his death certificate names his father George Frost [D]; George died in 1860 at Heart Prairie, where Stephen lived [C].

Life

  • "Stephen left home in his thirteenth year, going to Coxsackie... went to Wisconsin, thence to Iowa in 1866, to California 1883, Washington 1889" [C, FG p. 191]. FG adds that from Coxsackie he went to New York City and lived there six or seven years from 1841, and that in 1911 he was "now living with his son in Spokane."
  • 1850, La Grange, Walworth Co., aged 24, with his infant son, in his father-in-law Richard Fairchild's household [D].
  • Town clerk of Sugar Creek, 1854-1855; chairman of the Sugar Creek board and its member of the county board of supervisors, 1858-1859 [C, History of Walworth County (1882), pp. 454, 941-942; Beckwith (1912)].
  • 1860, La Grange, farmer, with Elizabeth, George 11, "Irvins" 7 and Frances 3 [D, 1:1:MW9Z-QZW].
  • Iowa: Monticello, Jones Co., by 1868, when S. G. Frost was a city councilman [C, History of Jones County (1879), p. 467]. On 11 Feb 1872 a fire destroyed the frame flouring mill of "Hibbard, Frost & Wood," a $14,000 loss with no insurance [C, same]; which Frost is not stated.
  • 1880, Harlan, Shelby Co., "Lumber Dealer," 53 [D, 1:1:MDLN-99Q]. No Frost lumber dealer appears in the Shelby County histories; an 1879 list has "Coenen & Fairchilds, lumber dealers" [C, Kenyon (1915), p. 239], possibly his wife's kin [I, Possible].
  • California: registered to vote at Cloverdale, 25 Mar 1884 and 7 Mar 1888 [D, California Great Registers]. Elizabeth died at Cloverdale in May 1889; an obituary is indexed in the Santa Cruz Daily Surf, 10 May 1889, p. 3 [C, index only].
  • Spokane: "Spokane Marble Works, S. G. Frost, Proprietor, Wholesale and Retail Marble and Granite Dealer... This industry was started eleven years ago by Mr. Myrick. Mr. Frost purchased it ten years ago. It is located at 0827 Monroe street. H. Matzke is the manager, and five men are employed" [C, Edwards, An Illustrated History of Spokane County (1900), near p. 102]. Identity with Stephen is Probable [I: the only S. G. Frost known in Spokane].
  • "CHICKENS CLAIMED. S. G. Frost, owner of the chickens taken by Prisoner John George, identified his property today. George did not appear in court and his bond of $20 was forfeited and Mr. Frost took possession of the chickens" [D, Spokane Press, 14 Nov 1902, p. 1].
  • 1910, widowed, aged 83, living with his son George W. in Spokane [D].

Children: George William (6); Irving (Ervin) W., b. c. 1852/3, Walworth Co., m. 16 Oct 1881, Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa, Mary Dorcas [D, Iowa marriage, naming Stephen G. Frost and "Elizabeth Fairchilds"], d. 1918; Frances Ruth, b. c. 1857. FG p. 191 lists only George W.; the 1860 census shows all three.

Sources: FS K8C7-769; FG pp. 110, 191; censuses 1850-1910; California Great Registers; Washington death certificate; Walworth, Jones and Shelby county histories; Edwards (1900); Spokane Press.

13. Elizabeth Fairchild (1830 - 1889)

  • Born 1 Apr 1830 (FS; Gilmore) or 21 Apr 1830 (FG), East Jewett, Greene Co., N.Y. [C].
  • Married 27 May 1849, Stephen G. Frost [C].
  • Died 6 May 1889 (FG) or 8 May (Gilmore), Cloverdale, Calif. [C].
  • Link to Richard C. Fairchild and Nancy Woodworth: Proven. 1850 census, La Grange: in their household as "Elizabeth Fairchild," 20, with Stephen Frost and "G W Frost" [D]; her son Ervin's 1881 Iowa marriage names her "Elizabeth Fairchilds" [D]; FG; Gilmore.
  • Richard C. Fairchild (26), b. 27 Apr 1808, East Jewett; m. 3 July 1829 (Gilmore) or 13 July 1829 (FG p. 191) Nancy Woodworth; La Grange, Wis., by 1850, a county supervisor in 1855 [C, Walworth history] and, per an FS note, a lay Methodist preacher; sold his farm in 1865 and moved to Iowa (Monticello 1870, Marion 1880); d. 1 Jun 1882, Marion, Linn Co., Iowa; buried Oak Shade Cemetery; a will of 1882 is on Ancestry [C/D]. Gilmore's proof of the Woodworth marriage is a deed of 1 Apr 1846 naming Richard and Nancy among the heirs of Lemuel Woodworth [C].
  • Nancy Woodworth (27), b. 12 Dec 1808; d. 15 Sept 1891 (FS) or 16 Sept (FG), Marion, Iowa [C/D, Iowa death record]; daughter of Lemuel and Lydia (Winter) Woodworth of East Jewett [C, FG p. 191].
  • Richard's father: see the Fairchild note below.

24. George Frost (1791 - 1860)

  • Born "Feb. 23, 1791" (FG p. 55; UG) or "Mch. 23, 1791" (FG p. 109) [C]. Nine Partners per FS; FG does not state the place.
  • Married 6 Mar 1824 "Abigail Tanner, widow of Henry Showerman" [C, FG p. 109].
  • 1850: living at Rensselaerville with his brother Daniel, aged 59 [D, 1:1:MCTF-QQC]. Abigail is not in that household.
  • Died 28 June 1860; buried Heart Prairie, Wis. [C, FG; FaG index]. He had evidently followed his son west after 1850 [I].
  • Children: Phebe Ann; Stephen G.; William Tanner (b. 9 Oct 1830), who "Enlisted in war," returned to Cobleskill, N.Y., and married a widow; Sarah Diana (m. Sewall J. Viles of Sugar Creek, Wis.) [C, FG pp. 109-110].
  • "Friends' Records of Rensselaerville say Geo. and Sarah were of that place" (FG p. 110, of his parents) [C].
  • Abigail Tanner (25): her first husband was Henry Showerman; her son Henry T. Showerman "d. on a revenue cutter at Balize, nr. New Orleans, during Mexican War" [C, FG]. FG gives no birth date or parents. FS's 20 June 1798 birth and parents Joshua Tanner and Diana Gifford: unsupported (no source found in the Tanner Genealogy (1893) or elsewhere).
  • Link to George (48): Proven (compiled) by FG, which lists George b. 1791 among the children of George and Sarah (Underhill) Frost and follows him to Wisconsin; repeated in UG (same compiler).

48. George Frost (1760 - 1830)

  • Born 11 Mar 1760 [C, FG pp. 54-55], "of Ninepartners." FG gives no birthplace; the Cock genealogy (1914, p. 28) says Long Island, which fits the family's move off Long Island in 1763. FS's "Crum Elbow" is unsupported.
  • Married 26 Dec 1781, at the Creek Meeting House, Sarah Underhill (b. 6 May 1761 per FG, 6 Apr per UG; d. 5 Oct 1834), daughter of Thomas Underhill and Mercy Dickinson [C, FG; UG says the marriage is in the Nine Partners Quaker records and that a copy of the certificate belongs to the Underhill Society].
  • Died 18 Sept 1830 [C].
  • Residences: Amawalk; removed from Chappaqua to Creek, 11th of 4th mo. 1788; removed to Coeymans Monthly Meeting, 17th of 5th mo. 1805; Rensselaerville [C, FG]. FS's "Coleman" is a misreading of Coeymans; FS's "Carmel 1810" is not in FG.
  • Children: Ethelannah (1783), Esther (1785), Joel (1787), James (1789), George (1791), Daniel (1793), Caleb (1795), Stephen (1797), William (1799), Hannah (1801), Mary (1804) [C, FG p. 55].
  • A biography of his grandson Joseph G. Frost, undertaker of Poughkeepsie (quoted on FS without a title, probably from a Dutchess County biographical record of the 1890s), says of "George Frost, our subject's grandfather, a farmer by occupation," that he lived his life near Rensselaerville and that of his six sons three settled nearby, "one located near Madison, Wis., and two in Poughkeepsie" [C]. The Wisconsin son is presumably George (1791) [I].
  • Revolutionary service: Disproven for this George. FS attaches military service in 1775 and 1779, a roster entry and an 1818 pension ledger. He married by Friends' ceremony in the middle of the war and kept receiving Friends' removal certificates in 1788 and 1805, which would not have happened had he been disowned for bearing arms. FG records Revolutionary service for other Frosts but not for him. The 1840 census of pensioners lists "George P. Frost, 83," of Rochester, Ulster County [D], identified by the SAR as born at New Castle, New Hampshire, 1 Jan 1758, a New Hampshire Continental soldier, pension S44856 [C]; he is the likely owner of the 1818 entry [I, Probable].
  • His 1828 Hicksite affiliation (FS) is unverified; the Rensselaerville Monthly Meeting records are at Swarthmore.
  • Link to Isaac (96): Proven (compiled), FG p. 31.

96. Isaac Frost (1717 - after 1798) and 97. Mary Cock

  • Isaac: born "3rd of 4th mo., 1717," Matinecock [C, FG p. 31]. In the Quaker Old Style count that is June 1717; the Cock genealogy renders it "3/4 mo (June) 1717." FS's 3 April is a misreading. License to marry 3 Mar 1737/8 Mary Cock [D, New York Marriage Licenses previous to 1784; C, FG].
  • In 1741 he bought from Charles Wright and Charles's mother Mary Wright 47 acres with buildings on the west side of Mill River Neck, by the Papaquatunk or Beaver Swamp River, and added land in 1754 and 1755. In 1763 he and Mary sold the farm to John Underhill, in whose family it stayed four generations; the Mill Neck railroad station and post office stood on it by the time of writing [C, Cock genealogy (1914), pp. 27-28, as quoted in the life sketch on Mary Cock's FS profile]. The family moved to Crom Pond in Cortlandt Manor, Westchester Co., and then to Clinton, Dutchess Co. [C, same]. Their farm at Crum Elbow was "one mile north and south, and two miles east and west... purchased from one of the nine partners" [C, FG p. 54]. "He d. in Clinton after 1798" [C, FG p. 31].
  • Mary Cock: born on the "Birdsall place" at Buckram (Locust Valley), 1722 (FG gives 5 June; the Cock genealogy gives both June and "5/6 mo. (Aug.)"); died at Clinton after 1777 [C]. Daughter of James Cock and Hannah Feake [C, History and Genealogy of the Cock, Cocks, Cox Family (1914), pp. 17, 26-29]. FS attaches to her a burial on 13 Dec 1776 at St Mary Coslany, Norwich, England, which belongs to someone else: Disproven.
  • At the 1698 wedding of Mary's parents, James Cock and Hannah Feke, the Quaker minister Thomas Chalkley was a witness; of his visit to Matinecock among the "Ranters" he wrote "I fought with beasts" [C, Cock genealogy p. 17].

192. William Frost (1674 - 1728) and 193. Hannah Prior

  • William: born 1674, Matinecock; "He was accidentally killed while slaughtering a beef which fell on him," 29 Nov 1728 [C, FG p. 22]. Buried in the Frost Cemetery, Lattingtown [C, FaG].
  • Married about 1700 Hannah Pryer (Prior), born 22 Oct 1681 (FS has 22 Dec), died 18 Dec 1771, daughter of John and Elizabeth (Bowne) Pryer of Matinecock [C, FG p. 22]. Ten children with Quaker dates, including Isaac, "b. 3 of 4 mo., 1717."
  • FS gives Hannah a 1775 entry as owner of one male slave at Oyster Bay. She died in 1771, so that "Hannah Frost" is another woman: Disproven as attached.
  • His brother Wright Frost, as tax collector in 1707, distrained goods from the Quaker Mary Willets "for the priest's worship house," and Wright's wife was condemned by Westbury Meeting in 1712 for marrying "out of the order of Truth" [C, FG p. 23].
  • Link to William (384): Proven (compiled), FG; the elder William's sons are given as William and Wright.

384. William Frost (before 1635 - 1719) and 385. Rebecca Wright

William

  • Born "prior to 1635." Origin uncertain: "William Frost may have been born in Binsted, Co. Hampshire, Eng., but the probabilities are he was born in America, and his father (perhaps John) may have been a brother of Elder Edmund, of Boston, Mass., or William may have been the son of Elder Edmund..." [C, FG p. 16, footnote]. The Binsted idea rests on a clause in a will FG prints, leaving land on failure of heirs "to any of the Frosts' descended from George Frost born in Binsted, two miles from Farnam in Hampshire in old England" (FG pp. 19-20), on an 1871 letter, and on Binsted register extracts [C]. FS's "Great Walsingham" has no source. Possible at most.
  • At Southold by 1655 with a brother John; an inhabitant of Setauket [C, FG].
  • On 6 Aug 1659 he signed the petition of "Cromwell Bay alias Setauke" asking to be taken under the government of Connecticut, the signers including John Underhill and James Cock [C, FG pp. 16-17].
  • On 14 Dec 1674 William Simson assigned his Matinecock farm, bought from the Matinecock Indians in 1667, "unto William ffrost of Seatawcott alis Brookehaven," for a bond of £70 "in Indian Coren at three shillings ꝑ bushell, or in Cattel" [D, Oyster Bay Town Records vol. 1 (1916), pp. 90-91]. The farm stayed in the family until a few years before 1912 [C, FG p. 19].
  • Not a Quaker himself: in 1693 the petition of George Boardman of Oyster Bay concerned ten acres "seized by Collector Wm. Frost, for taxes" [C, FG p. 21].
  • Died 19 Nov 1719, buried on his farm [C, FG]. FG prints a will of 1698; but "William Frost, Esq., of Oyster Bay in Queens County, died intestate. Letters of administration are granted to his wife Elinor, July 19, 1720" [D, Abstracts of Wills vol. 2, NYHS Collections 1893, p. 224]. The two conflict; "Elinor" suggests a second wife [C, FG's inference].

Rebecca Wright

  • Daughter of Nicholas and Ann Wright of Oyster Bay [C]. Married William Frost before 20 May 1673, when Anthony Wright's will names "Rebecca ffrost" [C, FG citing NYGBR 3: 37]. Living 1698. FS's birth at Sandwich in 1642 and death in 1717 have no source.
  • Her first marriage. About 1662/3 she married Eleazer Leverich (Leveridge) of Huntington, son of Rev. William Leverich. On 1 Apr 1670 Governor Lovelace's council received "The Peticon of Nicholas Wright concerning his Daughter & her Husband Eleazer Leveridge." A commission and instructions followed in May. On 22 Oct 1670 the council declared the marriage void: "with ye Advice of Chirurgions well skill'd & Sober Matrons who privily Examyned both ye man & woman, they made Report... That ye defect was in ye husband & not in ye wife... ye prtended marriage betweene ye said Eleazer Leveridg & Rebeckah Wright is hereby adjudged & declared to be void null & invalid... ye said Rebh hath likewise free libertye to dispose of her selfe in Lawfull marriage." The papers say they had lived together "seauen yeares & a halfe." On 24 Feb 1670/1 Eleazer was ordered to pay her "twenty five pounds in living Cattle... in lieu of what shee brought to him at their Marriage" [D, Paltsits, ed., Minutes of the Executive Council of the Province of New York: Administration of Francis Lovelace, vol. 1 (1910), pp. 43, 51, 58, 72, and Collateral Document XVI, pp. 331-336]. A writer of 1872 called it "believed... the first case of divorce by this court" [C, Latting, "The Wright Family, of Oyster Bay," NYGBR 3 (1872): 44].
  • The Wright family's English (Norfolk) ancestry is stated as fact in FG but given only as "believed, although not positively proved" by Latting [C]: Possible.

Families who married in (brief notes)

Bell (14, 28)

  • William Hamilton Bell (14), b. c. 1829, N.Y. [D, censuses]. "William Bell was a carpenter by trade" and "came to Wisconsin from Cattaraugus county, New York" [C, biography of his son Watson T. Bell in Mason, History of Otter Tail County (1916), vol. 2, pp. 79-80]. Married Adeline Fairchild 8 Sept 1849 (Gilmore) or 1850 (East Kill Valley Genealogy) [C]. 1860 Walworth; 1870 and 1880 Elkhorn, carpenter [D].
    • Walworth County coroner: "William H. Bell, then of Elkhorn, had been elected in 1874, but, according to usage, had not 'qualified.' He now hastened to take the oath of office" and petitioned the board, which set his salary at fifteen dollars; he was "chosen at four successive elections (the last one in 1880)" [C, Beckwith, History of Walworth County (1912), vol. 1, p. 91; History of Walworth County (1882), pp. 455-456].
    • Died 28 May 1887 (Gilmore's additions, no place) or 1888 at Cloverdale, Calif. (FG p. 267) [C]. FS's "28 May 1887, Cloverdale" combines the two; FS also cites a Minnesota death index entry. His widow died at St. Cloud, Minnesota, in 1891 and his son Watson lived at Fergus Falls from 1882, so Minnesota is possible. Unresolved.
    • Children (Gilmore): Dora A. (b. 17 Oct 1851; m. 24 Jan 1875, Walworth Co., Dewitt Stanford [D index]); Watson T. (b. 14 Aug 1853, Sugar Creek; printer in Milwaukee, typesetter on the Chicago Tribune to 1882, then a grocer at Fergus Falls, Minn.; d. 1936); John A. (b. 18 Oct 1855, m. 8 Mar 1878, d. 1878); Lucy E. (7); Etta M. (b. 9 Feb 1862, m. Murry B. Humes); Carrie (b. 30 Dec 1866, m. G. H. Callan; d. 1894).
  • John M. Bell (28): "John M. Bell," 76, widowed, born New York c. 1804, both parents born in Ireland, living as "Father" in William H. Bell's household at Elkhorn in 1880 [D, 1:1:MNHL-S2W]. Nothing else known.
  • FS's parents for William H. Bell: Disproven. FS attaches "Capt." John Bell (b. 22 Dec 1791, Otsego Co.; d. 8 Aug 1886, Greenfield, Milwaukee Co.) and Sarah "Sally" Harrington (1794-1877), and above them a John Bell of Girthon, Kirkcudbrightshire. Capt. John Bell settled in Greenfield in 1842, kept a tavern on the Mukwonago Road from 1850 to 1862 and died there [C, Lacher, "The Taverns and Stages of Early Wisconsin" (1915), pp. 128, 142]. He cannot be the John M. Bell of Elkhorn, born 1804 to Irish parents. The Bell line above John M. Bell is unknown; Cattaraugus County, New York, is the place to look.

Fairchild (13, 15, 26, 30, 52)

  • Adeline Asenath Fairchild (15), b. 27 Mar 1829, Hunter, Greene Co., N.Y.; in 1850 at Conewango, Cattaraugus Co., N.Y., in the household of an Edward Fairchild [D]; m. William H. Bell; d. 17 Mar 1891, St. Cloud, Minn.; buried Elkhorn [C, Gilmore pp. 181-183; FaG index]. Link to William H. Bell: Proven (1860-1880 censuses; daughters' marriage records naming "Wm H Bell" and "Adaline Bell").
  • John Fairchild (30), b. 18 Jan 1803 (FS, from the temple record book of his third wife and East Kill Valley Genealogy; Gilmore notes other dates), son of Jonathan; m. (1) Catherine Clawson/Closson, (2) Sally Ann Clawson, (3) Tryphena Pomeroy, who stayed in New York and went to Utah in 1859; at Conewango, Cattaraugus Co., in the 1840s; to Wisconsin about 1851-52; d. 3 Feb 1867, Heart Prairie [C]. Catherine Clawson (31): baptized 19 July 1807, Reformed Church, Claverack, Columbia Co., N.Y. [D index]; her gravestone gives "d. 29 Jul. 1831, aged 27 yrs. 1 mo. 3 d." [C, East Kill Valley Genealogy; Gilmore gives 1834]. Gilmore's proof of the marriage is a Greene County deed of 29 Oct 1827 naming John and Catherine among the heirs at law of Josiah (or Isiah) Classon [C]. Adeline's link to John and Catherine: Probable (compiled, with the deed).
  • Jonathan Fairchild (52 = 60), b. 29 Aug 1744, Norwalk, Conn., son of Thomas Fairchild and Ann Raymond [C, Gilmore p. 27, from Connecticut vital records]; settled at East Jewett about 1800 and "built the first tannery in Greene county"; d. about 1815, probably at Lexington, town of Hunter (administration bond by his son Henry, 28 Feb 1815) [C, Gilmore pp. 79-81]. Beach's Early Settlers of East Jewett names his children as Benjamin, Betsy, Harry, Catharine, Loretta, John, Edward and Richard [C, as quoted on FS]. His wife (53 = 61), mother of Richard and John, was Elizabeth, probably Cooper, but Gilmore herself questions whether both his wives were named Elizabeth and notes a possible confusion with a Jonathan Fairchild who died in 1815 at Bridgewater, Oneida Co. [C]. Possible as to the Cooper surname.
  • The second-cousin marriage. If John (30) and Richard C. (26) were both sons of Jonathan, then Elizabeth Fairchild (13) and Adeline Fairchild (15) were first cousins, and their children George W. Frost (6) and Lucy Ellen Bell (7) were second cousins. The brothers' parentage rests on W. B. Plume's manuscript "Genealogy of the Fairchild Family," which Gilmore says gave no sources, on correspondence, and on circumstantial deed and census evidence [C]. Probable. The families lived side by side: Richard and John both in La Grange, Walworth Co., by the 1850s; Stephen G. Frost in Richard's household in 1850.

Underhill, Feake, Bowne, Prior, Cock, Wright (49, 97, 193, 385 and above)

Compiled sources only; not checked against primary records in this pass.

  • Sarah Underhill (49) descends, per UG, through Thomas Underhill (b. 1735), Benjamin, and David (b. 1672) from Capt. John Underhill (the soldier of the Pequot War and of New Netherland) and Elizabeth Feake [C, UG #145, #41, #9]. Probable (compiled).
  • Elizabeth Bowne (387), b. 8 Oct 1658, m. 2 Nov 1678 John Prier of Killingworth (d. 1 Feb 1698), was a daughter of John Bowne of Flushing and Hannah Feake [C, FG pp. 22, 352-353]. John Bowne was arrested in 1662 by Peter Stuyvesant for allowing Quaker meetings in his house, banished, and appealed to the Dutch West India Company, whose reply of 16 Apr 1663 directed that consciences be left free; the documents are printed in FG pp. 353-355 [C]. Probable (compiled).
  • Hannah Feake (Bowne's wife) and John Feake (grandfather of Mary Cock) were children of Robert Feake and Elizabeth Fones, the widow of Henry Winthrop, son of Governor John Winthrop [C, FG; Cock genealogy]. With Elizabeth Feake (Underhill's wife), the line descends from Robert and Elizabeth Feake three ways [C]. Probable (compiled).
  • Mary Cock (97): see 96.

Tanner, Woodworth, Clawson, Harrington, Enos, Robbins and others

FS carries many further generations on these lines (Tanner and Gifford of Rhode Island and Dutchess; Woodworth, Winters and Hunt; Clawson and Schneider; Enos, Birge, Bissell and Watson of Windsor; Robbins, Chaffee, Carpenter and Lyon). None was checked in this pass, and the Tanner and Gifford parents of Abigail Tanner are unsupported. The Harrington, Eldredge and Parker lines on FS belong to Sally Harrington, wife of the wrong John Bell, and should be disregarded.

Part Two: Sources

[D] primary records and published transcripts or abstracts of them; [C] compiled works. "Read" means the record, page or OCR text was examined in this research; "index" means only the index entry was seen; "snippet" means only a search excerpt.

FamilySearch records (index entries read; images not viewed unless stated) [D]

  • U.S. censuses: 1850 Calamus, Dodge Co., Wis. (Duncan, 1:1:M4DF-M4Z; John McMillan, M4DF-QRK; Hugh M'Mullen); 1850 Richmond, Walworth Co. (Robert Adams, M4DP-LSB); 1850 La Grange, Walworth Co. (Richard Fairchild household with Stephen and G. W. Frost, M4D5-G83); 1850 Rensselaerville, Albany Co., N.Y. (Daniel Frost with George, MCTF-QQC); 1860 Calamus (Duncan, MWMP-DMJ); 1860 La Grange (Stephen G. Frost, MW9Z-QZW); 1870 Calamus (Duncan, MN9H-JSQ; William, MN9H-XSV); 1880 Rock Twp, Mitchell Co., Iowa (William, MDLQ-K3F); 1880 Harlan, Shelby Co., Iowa (George W., MDLN-99W; Stephen G., MDLN-99Q); 1880 Elkhorn, Walworth Co. (William H. Bell with John M. Bell, MNHL-S2W); 1900 Tacoma (William, MMPP-ZVL); 1900 Spokane (George W., MMPB-462); 1910 Tacoma (Alfred, MGJZ-DB3); 1910 Spokane (George W. with Stephen G., MGJT-5LQ); 1920 Tacoma (A. R., MHJM-784); 1920 Spokane (MHFC-L9D); 1930 Tacoma (Alfred, XC3T-RMW); 1930 San Francisco (Holbrook, XCN7-CZV); 1940 Honolulu (Holbrook, VB96-CLX).
  • Wisconsin Marriages, 1836-1930: William McMillen and Harriet E. Adams, 12 Sep 1862, Fall River (XRLS-C6G; Columbia Co. cert. 02652, FS film 1275881, DGS 007714201); Duncan McMillan and Maggie Heinig, 2 Sep 1886, Jefferson Co. (XRJ2-9B4).
  • Wisconsin County Marriages: George W. Frost and Lucy E. Bell, 31 Dec 1876, Walworth Co. (QK85-3FYZ); Dewitt Stanford and Dora A. Bell, 24 Jan 1875 (QK85-37PF); Henry Farr and Mary McMillan, 15 Oct 1871 (QK85-7Y8S); Geo. L. Stultz and Mary Farr, 21 June 1881 (QK85-W1Z4).
  • Wisconsin Death Records, 1867-1907: Duncan Mcmullen, 1889 (XL3Q-T2V).
  • Washington County Marriages: A. R. M. McMillian and Florena Frost, 23 Jan 1904, Spokane (QPMT-SQFZ; image 3:1:33S7-9TMQ-SSY6; also QPM1-NWPH).
  • Washington Death Certificates: William McMillan, 1927 (N3PX-GXK); Harriet Ellen McMillan, 1926 (N3P4-XHJ); Malcom D. McMillan, 1920 (N3G8-FKQ); George E. McMillan, 1936 (N35R-1HQ); Fred W. McMillan, 1954 (N3BX-MQ1); Stephen G. Frost, 1919 (N3GH-6FR); Nenon Aleda Frost, 1944 (N3TK-LW1).
  • Washington County Death Registers: Alfred R. McMillan, 1966 (6FVF-R16H).
  • U.S. WWII Draft Registration Cards, 1942: Alfred Ross McMillan (QVJT-NK24; image 3:1:3QS7-99GD-71Y6).
  • California Marriages: G. W. Frost and Susanna Myres, 23 Aug 1888, Cloverdale (41H5-LD3Z).
  • California Great Registers: Stephen George Frost, Cloverdale, 1884 and 1888.
  • Iowa Marriages: Ervin W. Frost and Mary Dorcas, 16 Oct 1881, Tipton (XJBW-DNC); W. H. Yager and Marian E. Adams Wheeler, 30 May 1895, Mitchell (XJLM-454, KC48-NX8).
  • Iowa Death Records: Marian E. Yager, 1940 (68CT-RRSP). Iowa Old Age Assistance: Marian Emiline Yager (QGNM-QWZH).
  • San Francisco passenger arrivals: Lucile M. Holbrook, 1941 (WBX3-PWZM).
  • GenealogyBank obituary index: William McMillan, Tacoma, 15 Mar 1927 (Q5QR-3NFR); George Emmett McMillan, Seattle, 18 Feb 1936 (Q5QF-BKPC).
  • Find a Grave index entries: Lucille McMillan Holbrook; Alfred Ross McMillan; Florence Bell Frost McMillan; William (43882380) and Harriet (43882366) McMillan; Mary McMillin (Leipsig); Penuel Ann MacMillan (South Beaver Dam); Penuel McMillan Stewart; Lucy E. Bell Frost; Stephen G. Frost; George Frost (Heart Prairie).
  • Washington and Iowa county birth registers; Iowa delayed birth record of Dora Belle Frost (index).

Other primary records and printed primary sources [D]

  • Nova Scotia marriage registration 1874, book 1803, p. 51, no. 79, Duncan McMillan and Mary Ann Cameron (read as image by a research assistant): archives.novascotia.ca/vital-statistics/marriage/?ID=39058.
  • Nova Scotia census of 1838, Dorchester Township, Sydney Co., RG 1 vol. 449 no. 177 (image read): archives.novascotia.ca/census/1838/returns/?ID=29306.
  • Roster of Wisconsin Volunteers, War of the Rebellion, vol. 2 (1886), 16th Infantry, Co. C, p. 11.
  • Watertown Republican, 20 Nov 1889, p. 5 (Chronicling America, sn85033295).
  • Tacoma Times (Chronicling America, sn88085187), page OCR: 2 Jan, 18 Feb, 24 Apr, 19 Aug 1909; 14 and 28 Dec 1910; 30 Mar 1911; 11 Apr 1912; 4 Dec 1914; 8 Jan, 23 and 31 Mar, 30 Apr 1915; 23 Mar, 10 and 29 July, 9 Sept 1916; 18 Jan, 26 May, 19 Sept, 2, 3 and 8 Oct, 28 Nov, 1, 3, 5, 18, 19 and 22 Dec 1917; 8 and 25 Jan, 13 Mar 1918; 24 May 1941; 24 Sept 1942.
  • Spokane Press, 14 Nov 1902, p. 1.
  • Sacramento Daily Record-Union, 28 Feb 1884 p. 3; 12 Sept 1885 p. 4; 29 Oct 1886 p. 2. Los Angeles Daily Herald, 28 Oct 1886, p. 1.
  • Santa Cruz Daily Surf, via the Santa Cruz Public Library local news index (index entries only): 26 Oct and 29 Dec 1886; 2 July, 27 July and 1 Sept 1887; 10 May 1889.
  • San Francisco Business Directory (1887), Cloverdale.
  • Pharmaceutical Era 45 (1912), p. 234. Musical America, 15 June 1912. Talking Machine World, 15 Jan 1925, p. 99.
  • Tacoma Public Library Northwest Room: Boland B10770 (1924), B13994 (1926), A-874 (c. 1926), B22017 (c. 1930); descriptions read, images not seen.
  • V. H. Paltsits, ed., Minutes of the Executive Council of the Province of New York: Administration of Francis Lovelace, vol. 1 (Albany, 1910), pp. 43, 51, 58, 72, 331-336. archive.org: minutesofexecuti01newyuoft.
  • Oyster Bay Town Records, vol. 1 (1916), pp. 36, 90-91. archive.org: oysterbaytownrec01coxj.
  • Abstracts of Wills on File in the Surrogate's Office, City of New York, vol. 2, NYHS Collections (1893), p. 224.
  • New York Marriage Licenses previous to 1784 (Isaac Frost and Mary Cock).
  • Census of Pensioners (1841), p. 103.
  • Rand McNally Bankers' Directory (1891), Spokane Falls.

Compiled works [C]

  • Josephine C. Frost, The Frost Genealogy: Descendants of William Frost of Oyster Bay, New York (Brooklyn, 1912), pp. x, 3-4, 16-23, 31-32, 54-56, 109-111, 191, 267, 352-355. archive.org: frostgenealogyde00fros. Read directly.
  • Josephine C. Frost, Underhill Genealogy, vol. 2 (1932), pp. 262-263. archive.org: underhillgenealo02fros.
  • History and Genealogy of the Cock, Cocks, Cox Family (1914), pp. 17, 26-29. archive.org: historygenealogy00cock.
  • J. J. Latting, "The Wright Family, of Oyster Bay," NYGBR 3 (1872): 35-45.
  • History of Dodge County, Wisconsin (Western Historical Co., 1880), p. 588. archive.org: historyofdodgeco00west.
  • Homer B. Hubbell, Dodge County, Wisconsin, Past and Present (1913), vol. 2, p. 405.
  • Rev. D. J. Rankin, A History of the County of Antigonish, Nova Scotia (1929), pp. 84-85 and about 324. archive.org: historyofcountyo0000rank (lending copy; read as snippets). In copyright; paraphrased.
  • Rev. George Patterson, A History of the County of Pictou (1877), pp. 226-227, 231.
  • David Dobson, Directory of Scottish Settlers in North America 1625-1825, vol. 7 (snippet only).
  • Lucille Campey, After the Hector (secondary, on the Nora).
  • Bev Hetzel, Wisconsin Deaths at Shiloh (typescript).
  • History of Walworth County, Wisconsin (Western Historical Co., 1882), pp. 454-456, 776-777, 941-942. archive.org: historyofwalwort00west.
  • A. C. Beckwith, History of Walworth County, Wisconsin (1912), vol. 1, p. 91 and Sugar Creek lists. archive.org: historyofwalwort01beck.
  • History of Jones County, Iowa (1879), p. 467. archive.org: historyofjonesco00west.
  • Edwin J. Kenyon, Past and Present of Shelby County, Iowa (1915), p. 239.
  • History of Mitchell and Worth Counties, Iowa (1884), p. 468.
  • Thomas Lewis, Illustrated History of Sonoma County (1889).
  • Jonathan Edwards, An Illustrated History of Spokane County (1900), industries section. archive.org: illustratedhisto00edwa.
  • N. W. Durham, History of the City of Spokane and Spokane Country (1912), vol. 2, p. 462. archive.org: historyofcityofs02indurh.
  • W. P. Bonney, History of Pierce County, Washington (1927), vol. III, p. 475.
  • Frederick Humphreys, The Humphreys Family in America (1883), pp. 913-915. archive.org: humphreysfamilyi02hump.
  • Charles Hammond, History of Union, Conn. (1893), pp. 292, 339-340. archive.org: historyofunionco01hamm.
  • Jean Fairchild Gilmore, Early Fairchilds in America and Their Descendants (1991), pp. 27, 79-81, 181-183 (archive.org: early-fairchilds-in-america), and More Fairchilds in America (additions), pp. 140, 142 (earlyfairchildsinamerica.wordpress.com). In copyright; paraphrased.
  • Olive Newell Woodworth, East Kill Valley Genealogy (1974) (snippets only).
  • Edward Mason, History of Otter Tail County, Minnesota (1916), vol. 2, pp. 79-80.
  • Hugo Lacher, "The Taverns and Stages of Early Wisconsin," Proceedings of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin for 1914 (1915), pp. 128, 142.
  • James S. Buck, Pioneer History of Milwaukee, vol. 3, p. 377.
  • IAGenWeb, Oakwood Cemetery, Plymouth, Cerro Gordo Co. transcription (2012).
  • SAR Patriot Research System, P-162550 (George P. Frost).
  • FamilySearch Family Tree (IDs in each section).

Part Three: Research log

5 October 2026.

  • FamilySearch Family Tree read through its API for Lucile (GH5P-ZTN) and eight generations of ancestors: the ancestry list, then facts, sources, notes and family members for the forty-odd nearest direct ancestors.
  • FamilySearch record indexes read for every census, marriage, death and draft record cited above; FamilySearch historical-records search used for Penuel McMillan, the McMillans of Calamus in 1850, Alfred McMillan in Tacoma in 1940, and Duncan McMillan's marriages.
  • The WWII draft card image was opened but could not be read (the image did not render while the browser pane was hidden).
  • Web research in five parallel threads: McMillan Bros. and Tacoma; Duncan McMillan and Lochaber; the nineteenth-century Frosts; the colonial Frosts of Oyster Bay; the Bell, Fairchild, Adams and Humphrey families. Sources read are listed in Part Two.

Searched without result

  • Tacoma Public Library Northwest Room item pages A-874 and B13994 (blocked by a browser check); Hunt's Tacoma (1916) vols. 1-2 and Bonney (1927) for McMillan or Frost biographies; Washington, West of the Cascades (1917).
  • Pharmacy licenses or Board of Pharmacy lists for A. R. or E. E. McMillan; Pacific Pharmacist, NARD Journal, Music Trade Review, Presto (beyond the items cited).
  • Tacoma Times for the 1904 and 1927 weddings and the 1926-1927 deaths (the paper's online run has almost nothing for 1905-1908 and 1919-1937).
  • William McMillan in Texas (the FS Texas residence turned out to be an error) and in Park Rapids, Minnesota, 1880-1895.
  • North Lochaber Cemetery transcriptions; Leipsig Cemetery burial list; a Nova Scotia marriage bond for Duncan's 1839 marriage; a passenger list for the Nora.
  • Rankin's text for "Wisconsin," "Duncan McMillan," "Glen Albyn," "Kilmallie" and "Urquhart."
  • Spokane newspapers on Chronicling America (Spokane Press, all pages mentioning Frost; Spokane Falls Review 1883-1890) beyond the 1902 item; Spokane histories for a Frost banker; Shelby, Jones, Linn, Sonoma and Santa Cruz county histories for Frost or Fairchild biographies.
  • California papers on Chronicling America for Lucy's death (March 1887), W. H. Bell (1887-1888), Elizabeth Frost (May 1889) or the Frost-Myers wedding. The California Digital Newspaper Collection could not be searched from here (blocked).
  • Hinshaw's Encyclopedia of American Quaker Genealogy vol. 3 (restricted); Nine Partners and Purchase Monthly Meeting transcriptions for George Frost (1760); the Tanner Genealogy (1893) for Joshua Tanner and Diana Gifford.
  • Milwaukee and Walworth histories for John M. Bell; Iowa histories for Robert Adams; the reason for "Capt." John Bell's title.

Part Four: Records to obtain next

In rough order of value.

  1. Tacoma obituaries: William McMillan (15 Mar 1927), Harriet (late July 1926), Florence (Jan 1957), Alfred (Nov 1966), George W. Frost (Oct 1925), in the Tacoma News Tribune and Tacoma Ledger. The Tacoma Public Library's obituary index (also on Ancestry as "Tacoma, Washington, U.S., Obituary Index, 1882-2015") gives dates and pages.
  2. Tacoma city directories (Polk), 1904-1950: the McMillan Bros. stores year by year, the brothers' homes, and whether either is listed as a pharmacist or "Ph.G."; when the firm ended.
  3. Washington State Board of Pharmacy registrations for A. R. and E. E. McMillan (Washington State Archives).
  4. State v. A. R. McMillan, 1917-1918, Pierce County Superior Court criminal file (Washington State Archives, Puget Sound Regional Branch), for the testimony and the liquor invoices.
  5. The Wisconsin marriage certificate of William McMillan and Harriet E. Adams, Columbia Co. no. 02652 (FS film 1275881 / DGS 007714201), to settle 1862 against 1865.
  6. Census images, 1910-1940, for occupations, addresses and home values; the 1940 census of Alfred and Florence (not found by name search) and the identity of "Alice," b. c. 1928.
  7. Alfred's WWII draft card (both sides), for his employer in 1942: FS image 3:1:3QS7-99GD-71Y6.
  8. California newspapers (California Digital Newspaper Collection: Cloverdale Reveille, Healdsburg Tribune, Santa Cruz Surf and Sentinel): the Surf articles indexed for 27 July 1887 ("Pistol accident," G. W. Frost) and 10 May 1889 (Elizabeth Frost's obituary); Lucy Frost's death notice, end of March 1887; W. H. Bell's death; the Frost-Myers wedding, Aug 1888.
  9. Spokane: Spokesman-Review obituaries of Stephen G. Frost (May 1919); Spokane city directories 1889-1925 for G. W. and S. G. Frost.
  10. Dodge County, Wisconsin: Duncan's probate (1889-1890) and deeds; Leipsig Cemetery and Beaver Dam burials; the 1877/78 Snyder, Van Vechten plat map (archive.org) for his Calamus farm; Mary Ann Cameron's death; Malcolm McMillan's compiled service record (16th Wisconsin, Co. C) at NARA.
  11. Nova Scotia: Rankin's pages (borrow the archive.org copy); Malcolm McMillan's land grant at Lochaber (Crown Land Information Management Centre); Presbyterian (Free Church) records for Lochaber; the Transactions of the Gaelic Society of Inverness 53: 448 for William McMillan and Penuel MacDougall; the Urquhart (Inverness-shire) parish register for their children before 1818.
  12. Quaker records at Swarthmore: Nine Partners, Creek, Coeymans and Rensselaerville monthly meetings for George Frost (1760) and George (1791), and Abigail Tanner's origins.
  13. Cattaraugus County, New York: John M. Bell and William H. Bell before 1850.
  14. New York surrogate's records for William Frost of Oyster Bay: the 1698 will that FG prints and the 1720 administration.

Archive candidates

Documents, photographs and articles worth clipping. FamilySearch and library downloads are full resolution; links are given so the originals can be saved.

  • Duncan McMillan's 1874 marriage register, Nova Scotia: image archives.novascotia.ca/images/vital-statistics/marriages/1803/1803-00051.jpg (record page archives.novascotia.ca/vital-statistics/marriage/?ID=39058). Names his parents and gives his birth at Lochaber.
  • 1838 Nova Scotia census page with Malcolm McMillan: archives.novascotia.ca/images/census/201413926.jpg.
  • HDC (1880), p. 588, Duncan's biography: archive.org/details/historyofdodgeco00west.
  • Watertown Republican, 20 Nov 1889, p. 5, Duncan's death: loc.gov/resource/sn85033295/1889-11-20/ed-1/?sp=5.
  • Snyder, Van Vechten map of Dodge County (1877/78): archive.org/details/dr_map-of-dodge-county-state-of-wisconsin-copyright-1877-by-snyder-van-vec-00474038.
  • Alfred and Florence's 1904 marriage record, Spokane: FS image 3:1:33S7-9TMQ-SSY6.
  • Tacoma Times pages (loc.gov/resource/sn88085187/DATE/ed-1/?sp=PAGE): 14 Dec 1910 p. 3 (new-store opening ad); 23 Mar 1915 p. 8 (third store); 26 May 1917 p. 2 (phonographs); 2 Oct 1917 p. 5 (the raid); 3 Dec 1917 p. 1 (duck hunting); 19 Dec 1917 p. 7 (testimony); 22 Dec 1917 p. 2 (hung jury); 25 Jan 1918 p. 1 (trial dropped); 23 Mar 1916 p. 1 (Speedway).
  • Talking Machine World, 15 Jan 1925, p. 99, "Music Department Opened by Tacoma Drug House": archive.org/details/talkingmachinewo21bill.
  • Pharmaceutical Era 45 (1912), p. 234, the Kapowsin store: archive.org/details/pharmaceuticaler45newyuoft.
  • Tacoma Public Library photographs of the McMillan Bros. stores: A-874 and Boland B13994 (c. 1926, 11th and Broadway); Boland B10770 (1924, 9th and Broadway): northwestroom.tacomalibrary.org/index.php/boland-b10770; Boland B22017 (c. 1930). Order prints or scans from the Northwest Room.
  • McMillan Bros. trade token, "MCMILLAN BROS. / DRUGGISTS / 949 C ST. // Good For 6 1/4," described in Washington State Trade Tokens (1998); a specimen may turn up with dealers.
  • Sacramento Daily Record-Union, 28 Feb 1884, p. 3 (the Cloverdale bank): loc.gov/resource/sn82014381/1884-02-28/ed-1/?sp=3; 12 Sept 1885, p. 4; 29 Oct 1886, p. 2 (City Bank of Santa Cruz).
  • Santa Cruz Daily Surf articles (via the library index): history.santacruzpl.org/omeka/items/show/48461 (pistol accident, 1887) and /48460 (Elizabeth Frost's obituary, 1889).
  • Durham (1912), vol. 2, p. 462, the Yakima land company: archive.org/details/historyofcityofs02indurh.
  • Spokane Press, 14 Nov 1902, p. 1 (the chickens): loc.gov/resource/sn88085947/1902-11-14/ed-1/?sp=1.
  • The Frost Genealogy (1912), p. 267, which prints Lucile's birth, and pp. 16-22 on the first two Williams: archive.org/details/frostgenealogyde00fros.
  • The Lovelace nullity decree of 1670 (Paltsits, pp. 331-336): archive.org/details/minutesofexecuti01newyuoft.
  • Oyster Bay Town Records, vol. 1, pp. 90-91, the 1674 farm purchase in Indian corn: archive.org/details/oysterbaytownrec01coxj.
  • Beckwith (1912), vol. 1, p. 91, W. H. Bell as coroner: archive.org/details/historyofwalwort01beck.

FamilySearch corrections to consider

  • Malcolm McMillan (LY3C-8JC): detach John McMillan (LBGS-HHC) and Ann Kennedy (LZBF-5MT) as parents, and the chain above them (M1TX-D79, M1TB-C8Y, PH5N-4JG, LHJZ-QVG, G3TX-68J, G21C-D36).
  • Duncan McMillan (L6XR-DRD): add the 1874 Nova Scotia register, the 1889 Watertown Republican notice and the 1886 Maggie Heinig marriage as sources; add Mary Ann Cameron as second wife; note the birth-year conflict.
  • William McMillan (L1W8-GHV): remove the 1875 Scottish pauper death and the post-1818 Urquhart christenings; add Dobson's 1818 emigration.
  • William McMillan (LR2B-Q1Z): remove the 1900 "Ward, Texas" residence (the record is Tacoma).
  • Edward E. McMillan (GXYX-LXN): the records found call him Everett E.
  • William Hamilton Bell (KP4G-NDZ): detach John Bell (GXMG-BBK) and Sarah Harrington (L7B1-H94) as parents; add John M. Bell (b. c. 1804, N.Y.) from the 1880 census.
  • George William Frost (2Z38-5XC): change the occupation note from "Banker, Spokane Falls" to his California banking.
  • George Frost (KLJP-5ZQ): remove the Revolutionary military service and the pension ledger entry; correct "Coleman" to Coeymans; remove "Crum Elbow" as birthplace.
  • Isaac Frost (LH32-CY4): birth 3rd of 4th mo. 1717 (June), not 3 April.
  • Mary Cock (LH32-CBJ): remove the 1776 Norwich, England burial.
  • Hannah Prior (L8BK-MRY): remove the 1775 slave-owner entry (she died in 1771).
  • Hannah Enos (K6MW-83Z): mother is Abigail Keyes, not Abigail Chaffe.
  • Abigail Tanner (K4RS-3CG): the parents Joshua Tanner and Diana Gifford have no source.
  1. # McMillan Frost Master Research
  3. Research file for the ancestry of Lucile McMillan (1905-1996), mother of Frances Fairchild Holbrook: her father's McMillan line and her mother's Frost line, with the families who married into each. One section per person, numbered by Ahnentafel number counted from Lucile (her father is 2, her mother 3, a person's father is twice their number and mother twice plus one). Each section gives the vital facts, how the link to the parent is supported, a plain account of the life from the records, anecdotes and quotations found, spouses and notable siblings, open questions, and sources.
  5. **Last revised:** 5 October 2026 (first edition).
  7. **Ratings.** Used where they matter, not on every line.
  8. - How we know it: **[D]** Documented (a primary record, or a published transcript, index or abstract of one); **[C]** Compiled (a secondary genealogy, county history or online tree); **[I]** Inferred (our own reasoning); **[T]** Tradition (family lore, no source).
  9. - How sure we are, for links and disputed points: **Proven**, **Probable**, **Possible**, **Disproven**.
  11. **Abbreviations:** FS, FamilySearch (Family Tree person IDs like K456-M23; record IDs like 1:1:MHJM-784); FaG, Find a Grave; FG, Josephine C. Frost, *The Frost Genealogy: Descendants of William Frost of Oyster Bay, New York* (Brooklyn, 1912); UG, Josephine C. Frost, *Underhill Genealogy*, vol. 2 (1932); TT, *Tacoma Times* (read as page OCR on Chronicling America, loc.gov, title sn88085187); HDC, *History of Dodge County, Wisconsin* (Western Historical Co., 1880); Gilmore, Jean Fairchild Gilmore, *Early Fairchilds in America and Their Descendants* (1991) and her later *More Fairchilds in America* additions; Humphreys, Frederick Humphreys, *The Humphreys Family in America* (1883). Quaker dates are given as written ("3rd of 4th mo.") with the Old Style month counted from March.
  13. **A note on newspapers.** The *Tacoma Times* and other Chronicling America papers were read as machine OCR of the page, not the image. Quotations from them are faithful to the OCR with obvious misreadings corrected. Before any of them is quoted in finished writing, the page image should be checked.
  15. ---
  17. ## What this pass found
  19. 1. **Lucile's parents** were Alfred Ross McMillan and Florence Bell Frost, married at Spokane on 23 January 1904. The marriage record names both sets of parents: "Wm McMillian" and "Helen Adams," and "Geo W Frost" and "Lucy Dell" (Bell). It gives Alfred's age as 22 and Florence's as 18. Alfred was born in January 1884, so he was 20.
  20. 2. **The "pharmacist" of family lore** is Alfred himself, with his brother Everett. McMillan Bros., druggists, of Tacoma, ran two or three stores on C Street (later Broadway) from about 1905. They added phonographs in 1917 and pianos in 1925. The firm still appears in 1942 and in a 1949-50 directory. In October 1917 police raided the store at 1111 Broadway and seized 157 quarts of whisky. Alfred defended himself in court, a jury could not agree, and the case was dropped in January 1918.
  21. 3. **Two McMillan brothers married two Frost sisters.** George Emmett McMillan married Dora Belle Frost on 26 July 1905, eighteen months after Alfred married Florence.
  22. 4. **The McMillan line is documented back to Malcolm McMillan of Lochaber, Antigonish County, Nova Scotia.** Duncan McMillan's parents are named as Malcolm and Mary in three records: his 1874 Nova Scotia marriage register, an 1886 Wisconsin marriage, and his 1889 Wisconsin death record. Rankin's 1929 county history names a Malcolm McMillan as one of the men who settled at Lochaber Lake about 1810 and named it after their home in Lochaber, Scotland. Nothing above Malcolm is documented. The chain on FamilySearch above him (John McMillan and Ann Kennedy, then a Duncan of Stevenston and Shelburne, a Malcom John of Kintyre and North Carolina, and a John of Bute) joins unrelated men of the same names and should be detached.
  23. 5. **Duncan's first wife Mary** was probably a daughter of William McMillan and Penuel MacDougall of Glen Urquhart, Inverness-shire, who emigrated to Pictou in 1818 and settled at South River, Antigonish (Dobson, citing the Gaelic Society of Inverness). The family's use of the rare names Penuel and Alpin, a Penuel McMillan buried at South Beaver Dam in February 1870 aged 88, and a John McMillan household in Calamus in 1850 with children Penuel and Alpin all fit. FamilySearch gives this William a death in Scotland in 1875 as a pauper; that record belongs to another man.
  24. 6. **Duncan married three times:** Mary McMillan in Nova Scotia in 1839; Mary Ann Cameron at Lochaber, Nova Scotia, on 26 August 1874; and Maggie Heinig in Jefferson County, Wisconsin, on 2 September 1886. His son Malcolm, of Co. C, 16th Wisconsin Infantry, was wounded at Shiloh and died at Camp Dennison, Ohio, on 11 May 1862.
  25. 7. **William McMillan (Alfred's father)** married Harriet Ellen Adams at Fall River, Columbia County, Wisconsin. The marriage index dates this 12 September 1862, which would make Harriet 14. The 1900 census says they had been married 35 years, which points to 1865. In 1880 William was "Farming & Teaching" in Rock Township, Mitchell County, Iowa. The family was in Minnesota in 1884 and in Washington Territory by June 1887. The "Ward County, Texas" residence on FamilySearch for 1900 is wrong; the 1900 census record itself is Tacoma.
  26. 8. **George W. Frost (Florence's father) was a banker in California,** not Spokane as FamilySearch says. He was a director of the Cloverdale Banking and Commercial Company in 1884 and its cashier and secretary, and in October 1886 he became cashier of the new City Bank of Santa Cruz. His wife Lucy died at Santa Cruz on 29 March 1887, when Florence was eighteen months old. He married Susie Myers at Cloverdale in August 1888, was in Washington by 1892 and was at Spokane by 1900. In 1902 he was one of five men who bought 37,721 acres of railroad land in the Moxee valley near Yakima.
  27. 9. **Stephen G. Frost (Florence's grandfather)** was town clerk and then board chairman of Sugar Creek, Wisconsin, in the 1850s. He was a city councilman at Monticello, Iowa, in 1868, a lumber dealer at Harlan, Iowa, in 1880, and a voter at Cloverdale, California, in 1884 and 1888. In Spokane an S. G. Frost owned the Spokane Marble Works in the 1890s. Stephen died there in 1919 aged 92. He had left home at twelve.
  28. 10. **The colonial Frost line** is set out in the 1912 *Frost Genealogy* from Stephen back six generations to William Frost of Setauket and Matinecock, Long Island (d. 1719). That book prints Lucile's own birth at Tacoma on p. 267. The elder William's wife Rebecca Wright had a first marriage to Eleazer Leverich, which Governor Lovelace's council declared void in October 1670 on the report of surgeons and "Sober Matrons." It is believed to be the first divorce granted by that court. William's son William was killed in 1728 when a beef carcass he was slaughtering fell on him.
  29. 11. **The Revolutionary War service and pension FamilySearch attaches to George Frost (1760-1830)** do not belong to him. He was a Quaker who married at the Creek Meeting House in December 1781 and kept receiving Friends' certificates afterwards. The pensioner was probably George P. Frost of Ulster County.
  30. 12. **William H. Bell's father** was John M. Bell, born about 1804 in New York to Irish-born parents, who was living with him at Elkhorn in 1880. FamilySearch's link to "Capt." John Bell (1791-1886), the Greenfield tavern keeper, is contradicted by that census. William H. Bell was a carpenter and Walworth County coroner from 1874 to 1880.
  31. 13. **George W. Frost and Lucy Ellen Bell were second cousins.** Both descend from Jonathan Fairchild (1744-c.1815) of East Jewett, Greene County, New York: George through his mother Elizabeth Fairchild, and Lucy through her mother Adeline Fairchild. This rests on compiled sources only and is rated Probable. Frances Fairchild Holbrook's middle name presumably comes from this double Fairchild descent [I].
  32. 14. **Harriet Ellen Adams's parents** Robert Adams and Caroline Humphrey are confirmed by the 1850 census, her marriage index entry, and her sister Marian's records. Caroline's mother Hannah Enos was a daughter of Joseph Enos by his third wife, Abigail Keyes of Ashford, not "Abigail Chaffee" as FamilySearch has it.
  34. ---
  36. ## The tree
  38. Ahnentafel numbers from Lucile (1). Link ratings in brackets refer to the link between that person and the child above. Births, marriages and deaths in **Part One** carry their sources; this outline is for orientation.
  40. - **1. Lucile McMillan.** b. 17 Sep 1905, Tacoma, Wash.; m. May 1927, San Jose, Calif., Richard Clifford Holbrook (1902-1955); d. 1 Aug 1996 (Lacey, Wash., per family records); bur. University Place, Pierce Co.
  41. - **2. Alfred Ross McMillan** [Proven]. b. 21 Jan 1884, Park Rapids, Hubbard Co., Minn.; m. 23 Jan 1904, Spokane; d. 20 Nov 1966, Tacoma.
  42. - **4. William McMillan** [Proven]. b. 1841/2, Nova Scotia; m. Fall River, Columbia Co., Wis., 1862 or 1865; d. 15 Mar 1927, Tacoma.
  43. - **8. Duncan McMillan** [Proven]. b. c. 1812-1816, Lochaber, Antigonish Co., N.S.; m. (1) 1839, N.S., (2) 26 Aug 1874, Lochaber, (3) 2 Sep 1886, Jefferson Co., Wis.; d. 19 Nov 1889, Beaver Dam, Wis.
  44. - **16. Malcolm McMillan** [Proven by name; his identity with Rankin's Malcolm of Lochaber Lake, Probable]. Settled Lochaber Lake c. 1810; living 1838.
  45. - **17. Mary** [Proven by first name only]. Surname unknown.
  46. - *Above 16 and 17: nothing documented. The FamilySearch chain is Disproven (see 32 ff.).*
  47. - **9. Mary McMillan** [Proven]. b. c. 1819; d. 8 or 9 Sep 1872, Calamus, Dodge Co., Wis.
  48. - **18. William McMillan** [Probable]. Of Glen Urquhart; to Nova Scotia 1818.
  49. - **19. Penuel MacDougall** [Probable]. d. Feb 1870, aged 88, bur. South Beaver Dam, Wis.
  50. - **5. Harriet Ellen Adams** [Proven]. b. Jan 1848 (or Feb 1847), Wisconsin; d. 31 Jul 1926, Tacoma.
  51. - **10. Robert Adams** [Proven]. b. c. 1820, N.Y.; d. 1909, Iowa.
  52. - **11. Caroline Humphrey** [Proven]. b. 22 Mar 1814, Richmond, Ontario Co., N.Y.; d. 1889, Iowa.
  53. - **22. Joseph Humphrey** [Probable, compiled]. b. 16 Mar 1782, Windham Co., Conn.; d. 1864 or 1866, Whitewater, Wis.
  54. - 44. Ebenezer Humphrey [Probable, compiled]; 45. Lucy Robbins [Probable, compiled].
  55. - **23. Hannah Enos** [Probable, compiled]. b. 31 May 1781, Union, Conn.; d. 1855, Whitewater.
  56. - 46. Joseph Enos (b. 1721) [Probable]; 47. Abigail Keyes of Ashford [Probable; FS "Abigail Chaffe" Disproven].
  57. - **3. Florence Bell Frost** [Proven]. b. 12 Sep 1885, Cloverdale, Sonoma Co., Calif.; d. 20 Jan 1957, Tacoma.
  58. - **6. George William Frost** [Proven]. b. 16 Apr 1850, Heart Prairie, Walworth Co., Wis.; m. (1) 31 Dec 1876, Elkhorn, Wis., (2) 23 Aug 1888, Cloverdale; d. 26 Oct 1925, Tacoma.
  59. - **12. Stephen George Frost** [Proven]. b. 26 Oct 1826, Rensselaerville, Albany Co., N.Y.; m. 27 May 1849, Windham, N.Y.; d. 2 May 1919, Spokane.
  60. - **24. George Frost** [Proven]. b. 23 Feb or 23 Mar 1791; m. 6 Mar 1824; d. 28 Jun 1860, bur. Heart Prairie, Wis.
  61. - **48. George Frost** [Proven, compiled]. b. 11 Mar 1760; m. 26 Dec 1781, Creek Meeting House; d. 18 Sep 1830.
  62. - **96. Isaac Frost** [Proven, compiled]. b. 3rd of 4th mo. 1717, Matinecock, L.I.; m. license 3 Mar 1737/8; d. after 1798, Clinton, Dutchess Co.
  63. - **192. William Frost** [Proven, compiled]. b. 1674, Matinecock; d. 29 Nov 1728.
  64. - **384. William Frost** [Proven, compiled]. b. before 1635; d. 19 Nov 1719, Matinecock.
  65. - **385. Rebecca Wright** [Proven, compiled]. Daughter of Nicholas and Ann Wright.
  66. - **193. Hannah Prior (Pryer)** [Proven, compiled]. b. 22 Oct 1681; d. 18 Dec 1771. Daughter of John Prior and Elizabeth Bowne.
  67. - **97. Mary Cock** [Proven, compiled]. b. 1722, Buckram (Locust Valley), L.I. Daughter of James Cock and Hannah Feake.
  68. - **49. Sarah Underhill** [Proven, compiled]. b. 1761; d. 5 Oct 1834. Daughter of Thomas Underhill and Mercy Dickinson.
  69. - **25. Abigail Tanner** [Proven as wife; parents unknown]. Widow of Henry Showerman.
  70. - **13. Elizabeth Fairchild** [Proven]. b. 1 or 21 Apr 1830, East Jewett, Greene Co., N.Y.; d. 6 or 8 May 1889, Cloverdale.
  71. - **26. Richard C. Fairchild** [Proven]. b. 27 Apr 1808, East Jewett; d. 1 Jun 1882, Marion, Linn Co., Iowa.
  72. - 52. Jonathan Fairchild [Probable, compiled]; 53. Elizabeth, probably Cooper [Possible].
  73. - **27. Nancy Woodworth** [Proven]. b. 12 Dec 1808; d. 15 Sep 1891, Marion, Iowa.
  74. - **7. Lucy Ellen Bell** [Proven]. b. 2 Feb 1858, Elkhorn, Wis.; d. 29 Mar 1887, Santa Cruz, Calif.
  75. - **14. William Hamilton Bell** [Proven]. b. c. 1829, N.Y.; m. 1849/50; d. 1887 or 1888, place unresolved.
  76. - **28. John M. Bell** [Proven by the 1880 census]. b. c. 1804, N.Y., of Irish-born parents. FS's John Bell (1791-1886) and Sally Harrington: Disproven.
  77. - **15. Adeline Asenath Fairchild** [Proven]. b. 27 Mar 1829, Hunter, Greene Co., N.Y.; d. 17 Mar 1891, St. Cloud, Minn.
  78. - **30. John Fairchild** [Probable]. b. 1803, East Jewett; d. 3 Feb 1867, Heart Prairie, Wis.
  79. - 60. Jonathan Fairchild = 52 above [Probable, compiled]; 61. = 53.
  80. - **31. Catherine Clawson (Closson)** [Probable]. bapt. 1807, Claverack, N.Y.; d. 29 Jul 1831, Hunter, N.Y.
  82. ---
  84. ## Part One: The McMillan side
  86. ### 1. Lucile McMillan (1905 - 1996)
  88. **Vital facts**
  89. - Born 17 Sept 1905, Tacoma [D, Washington county birth register, FS 1:1:DY6M-TTN2; FG p. 267, "Lucile, b. Tacoma, Wash., Sept. 17, 1905"].
  90. - Married May 1927, San Jose, California, Richard Clifford Holbrook (1902-1955) [C, family research; newspaper report of 15 May 1927 cited in the Collins-Reed tree].
  91. - Died 1 Aug 1996, aged 90 [D, Social Security Death Index]. Lacey, Wash., per family records. Buried University Place, Pierce Co. [C, FaG index, as "Lucille McMillan Holbrook"].
  93. **Link:** **Proven** (1910 and 1920 censuses in her parents' household; FG p. 267).
  95. **Spelling.** "Lucile" in the 1910, 1920, 1930 and 1940 censuses, the 1941 passenger list and FG; "Lucille" on her FaG memorial and in family use.
  97. **Records**
  98. - 1910, Tacoma Ward 8, aged 4, with Alfred and Florence [D, FS 1:1:MGJZ-DB7]. 1920, Tacoma, aged 14 [D, 1:1:MHJM-78C].
  99. - 1930, San Francisco, wife of Richard C. Holbrook, aged 24 [D, 1:1:XCN7-CZV].
  100. - 1940, Representative District 4, Honolulu, with Richard and Frances, aged 8 [D, 1:1:VB96-CLX].
  101. - 1941, arrived at San Francisco as a U.S. citizen, "Lucile M. Holbrook," aged 35, born Tacoma [D, 1:1:WBX3-PWZM].
  102. - The Holbrook and Collins-Reed files hold the rest of her married life (Pearl Harbor, Guam, Arkansas).
  104. **Sources:** FS GH5P-ZTN and the records above; FG p. 267.
  106. ---
  108. ### 2. Alfred Ross McMillan (1884 - 1966)
  110. **Vital facts**
  111. - Born 21 Jan 1884, "Park Rakids [Rapids], Minnesota" (his own WWII draft registration, 1942) [D, FS 1:1:QVJT-NK24]. The 1900 census agrees on January 1884 and Minnesota [D]. The 1910, 1920 and 1930 censuses give Wisconsin, and name his mother's birthplace as Pennsylvania [D]; these are informant errors.
  112. - Married 23 Jan 1904, Spokane, Florence Frost [D, Washington county marriages, FS 1:1:QPM1-NWPH and 1:1:QPMT-SQFZ; FG p. 267]. The record gives "A R M McMillian," aged 22, and "Florena Frost," 18, and names his parents "Wm McMillian" and "Helen Adams" and hers "Geo W Frost" and "Lucy Dell." He was 20.
  113. - Died 20 Nov 1966, Tacoma, aged 82 [D, Pierce County death register, 1:1:6FVF-R16H; Washington Death Index]. Buried New Tacoma Cemetery, University Place [C, FaG index].
  115. **Link:** **Proven**. The 1900 census places him in William and Harriet McMillan's household [D]; his marriage record names them [D]; his brother George's 1936 obituary lists "Alfred R. McMillan" among the surviving brothers [D index].
  117. **Life**
  118. - A child of the family's moves: born in Minnesota, in Washington Territory by 1887, at Tacoma by 1900 aged 16, single, in his parents' household [D, 1900 census, 1:1:MMPP-ZVR].
  119. - Married at Spokane at 20, giving his age as 22. Florence's father and grandfather lived in Spokane.
  120. - **McMillan Bros., druggists.** Alfred (A. R.) and his elder brother E. E. ("Everett") McMillan ran the business. The *Tacoma Times* said in March 1915 that "they have been in business here 10 years" [D, TT 23 Mar 1915, p. 8], which puts the start about 1905. The record of the firm:
  121. - Jan-Feb 1909: advertisements for "Anti-Rheum," "Sold Exclusively by McMillan BROS. DRUGGISTS 949 C St. Fidelity Bldg." [D, TT 2 Jan and 18 Feb 1909, p. 8].
  122. - Aug 1909: a branch at 17th (or 18th) and C streets, in the Carlton Hotel building: "McMillan Bros., druggists, are to be congratulated upon a fine new store" [D, TT 19 Aug 1909, p. 5].
  123. - 15 Dec 1910: "Special Opening Day at Their New Store Corner Thirteenth and C Streets," billed as "the prettiest drug store in Tacoma" [D, TT 14 Dec 1910, p. 3]. Two stores by the end of the year, agents for Squibb, Parke Davis, Wyeth, Mulford and Lilly [D, TT 28 Dec 1910, p. 8]. A new soda fountain opened 1 Apr 1911 [D, TT 30 Mar 1911, p. 2].
  124. - Mar 1912: "Kapowsin: The McMillan Bros., of Tacoma, have purchased the Sargent drug store" [D, *Pharmaceutical Era* 45 (1912): 234].
  125. - Dec 1914: "McMillan Brothers Retail DRUGGISTS Wholesale," 949 C St. (Fidelity Bldg.) and 1301 C St. (Merchants Hotel) [D, TT 4 Dec 1914, p. 3]. Jan 1915: "Free Rapid Motorcycle Delivery" [D, TT 8 Jan 1915, p. 7, partly reconstructed OCR].
  126. - Mar 1915: "The McMillan Brothers, druggists, have announced that they will add a third store to their present holdings. The new property under their management is to be the old Ryner Malstrom store, 1111 Broadway, which they have just bought... The brothers, E. E. and A. R., already own the McMillan stores at 949 and 1301 Broadway" [D, TT 23 Mar 1915, p. 8]. C Street had been renamed Broadway.
  127. - 1916-1917: "McMillan Bros., Props.," Broadway Drug Store, 1111 Broadway, and Fidelity Drug Store, 949 Broadway [D, TT advertisements]. In March 1916 the paper called Alfred "proprietor of the Broadway Drug Co." [D, TT 23 Mar 1916, p. 1].
  128. - May 1917: an exclusive Tacoma agency for a phonograph that played any make of record; the Broadway store "remodeled, with a balcony added, devoted entirely to the phonograph department" [D, TT 26 May 1917, p. 2; brand lost in the OCR].
  129. - Aug 1924: the drugstore in the Jonathan Smith Building, 911-13 Broadway [D, Tacoma Public Library, Boland photograph B10770, 22 Aug 1924].
  130. - Jan 1925: "A new music department, handling pianos, Brunswick phonographs, latest music rolls and musical merchandise, has just been opened by McMillan Bros., located in the Darmer Building, 1111 Broadway... The firm, which has been long established in the retail drug business at this address, has remodeled its quarters... The music end of the business will be conducted on the mezzanine and second floors" [D, *Talking Machine World*, 15 Jan 1925, p. 99].
  131. - c. 1926: Tacoma Public Library photographs A-874 and Boland B13994 show the store at 11th and Broadway; the library's caption describes three stores combining a drugstore with pianos, phonographs and records, owned by "Everett and Alfred McMillan" [C, library descriptions; images not yet seen].
  132. - c. 1930: McMillan Bros. among the businesses visible in a Boland photograph of the W. R. Rust building (B22017) [C, Archives West finding aid].
  133. - 1941: "Drugs: McMillan Bros., $107.03" in a city purchases list [D, TT 24 May 1941, p. 9]. Sept 1942: "McMillan Bros. Drug Co., 85[?] Broadway, lost a $35 camera from a display window" [D, TT 24 Sept 1942, p. 2].
  134. - 1949-50: "McMillan, E E, McMillan Bros." in the index of *Capitol's Who's Who for Washington* [C, snippet only].
  135. - Fred Ludwig, later founder of the Ludwig drug chain, worked "for a short time" in McMillan Brothers' drug store as a young man [C, Bonney, *History of Pierce County* (1927), vol. III, p. 475].
  136. - **No pharmacist's license has yet been found** for either brother; the papers call Alfred "druggist" and "proprietor." Whether either was a registered pharmacist is open.
  137. - **Social life.** A 1915 gossip column calls him "Alfred McMillan ('Doc')" [D, TT 31 Mar 1915, p. 4]. A golfer at the Lakeside Country Club in 1915-1916 and vice-president of the new Meadow Park Golf Club, July 1916; Mrs. A. R. McMillan also played [D, TT 29 July, 10 July and 9 Sept 1916]. A director of the Tacoma Speedway Association, March 1916 [D, TT 23 Mar 1916, p. 1].
  138. - **The liquor case, 1917-1918.** (Background: Washington's statewide prohibition law took effect in 1916, after which druggists could sell liquor only on prescription.)
  139. - The paper printed lists of liquor shipped to McMillan Bros. in August and September 1917 [D, TT 19 Sept 1917, p. 8].
  140. - On 1 Oct 1917 police seized from "McMillan Bros.: Whisky, 157 quarts; gin, 18 quarts; alcohol, one barrel" [D, TT 2 Oct 1917, p. 5]. A warrant for A. R. McMillan was held until he returned from a business trip [D, TT 3 Oct 1917, p. 5]. He pleaded not guilty and "appeared for himself" [D, TT 8 Oct 1917, p. 1].
  141. - The trial was continued in early December because he was duck hunting on the La Conner flats: "Whether McMillan got any ducks it did not say" [D, TT 3 Dec 1917, p. 1]. A doctor's certificate in the case gives his address as 1906 North "Junette" (Junett) Street [D, TT 1 Dec 1917]. A third postponement followed for illness [D, TT 5 Dec 1917, p. 7].
  142. - Trial opened 18 Dec 1917 on a charge of keeping liquor at 1111 Broadway with intent to sell unlawfully [D, TT 18 Dec 1917, p. 5]. His testimony: "The McMillan drug store at 1111 Broadway received a shipment of 120 quarts of whisky just one hour before the police raided the store on Oct. 1, according to the testimony of Alfred R. McMillan... These 120 quarts, he said, were to meet the prescription demands of the two McMillan Brothers' stores on Broadway for two weeks." He estimated that whisky sales had risen by about a third since the federal law ended the permit system [D, TT 19 Dec 1917, p. 7].
  143. - The jury could not agree after 24 hours [D, TT 22 Dec 1917, p. 2]. "DROP TRIAL OF M'MILLAN": dismissed on the prosecutor's motion [D, TT 25 Jan 1918, p. 1].
  144. - In the same weeks McMillan Bros. was among the stores applying for city liquor licenses [D, TT 28 Nov 1917, p. 1].
  145. - 1910, Tacoma Ward 8; 1920 and 1930, Tacoma [D]. In 1930 the household included "Alice McMillan," 2, born Washington about 1928, entered as a daughter [D, 1:1:XC3T-RMW]. Who she was is open; Florence was then about 42.
  146. - 1942: registered for the WWII "old man's" draft at Tacoma, aged 58 [D].
  148. **Spouse:** Florence Bell Frost (3).
  150. **Siblings** (children of William and Harriet; nine born, all nine living in 1900 [D, 1900 census]): William E. (b. c. 1866/7, Iowa); George Emmett (1868/9-1936); Malcolm D. (1870/1-1920); Alice Emily (b. 1872, Mrs. Alice E. Hilley of Enumclaw in 1936); Roy Duncan (1877-1964); Fred Wheeler (1878/9-1954); Everett E. (b. Sept 1881, Iowa); Alfred; Frank Harold (b. June 1887, Washington; d. 1974). See 4 for notes.
  151. - **Everett E. McMillan**, Alfred's partner. "Everet" in the 1900 census; "Everett E." in George's 1936 obituary index; "Edward E." on FS (GXYX-LXN), for which no source has been found. His wife was Cleora Brown, a contralto at the First Congregational Church who sang in the Tacoma premiere of Reynolds's opera *Ninasicha* in 1912 [D, TT 24 Apr 1909, p. 4; *Musical America*, 15 June 1912]. A director of the Puget Sound Bank & Trust Co. in 1917-1918, "E. E. McMillan, McMillan Bros., Druggists" [D, TT 18 Jan 1917, p. 8; 13 Mar 1918, p. 7]. Burglars entered his apartment at the Hillcrest in January 1918 and took a gold band ring and jewelry [D, TT 8 Jan 1918, p. 7, poor OCR].
  152. - **George Emmett McMillan** married Florence's sister Dora Belle Frost on 26 July 1905 [C, FG p. 267, as "George C. McMillan"]. He died at Seattle 16 Feb 1936 aged 67, a janitor; survived by his wife Dora B., a daughter Mrs. R. L. Sullivan of San Francisco, his brothers William E. (Seattle), Roy D., Fred W., Everett E., Alfred R. and Frank H., and his sister Mrs. Alice E. Hilley of Enumclaw [D, obituary index, Seattle, 18 Feb 1936, FS 1:1:Q5QF-BKPC; death certificate 1:1:N35R-1HQ].
  153. - **Fred Wheeler McMillan** died at Tacoma 22 Feb 1954 aged 75; wife Grace [D, death certificate 1:1:N3BX-MQ1]. His middle name matches his uncle by marriage Cyrus Wheeler (see 5) [I].
  154. - **Malcolm D. McMillan** died at Tacoma 8 Nov 1920 aged 50 [D, 1:1:N3G8-FKQ].
  156. **Open questions:** when and why McMillan Bros. was founded and when it closed; whether Alfred or Everett held a pharmacy license, and where they trained; who Alice (b. c. 1928) was; Alfred's and Florence's obituaries; the meaning of "Ross."
  158. **Sources:** FS K456-M23; 1900-1930 censuses; WWII draft registration; Washington county marriages; Pierce County death register; *Tacoma Times* 1909-1942 as cited; *Pharmaceutical Era* 45 (1912); *Musical America* (15 June 1912); *Talking Machine World* (15 Jan 1925), p. 99; Tacoma Public Library Northwest Room photographs; Bonney (1927); FG p. 267.
  160. ---
  162. ### 3. Florence Bell Frost (1885 - 1957)
  164. **Vital facts**
  165. - Born 12 Sept 1885, Cloverdale, Sonoma County, California [C, FG p. 267]. The 1900 census gives September 1886 [D].
  166. - Married 23 Jan 1904, Spokane, Alfred Ross McMillan [D].
  167. - Died 20 Jan 1957, Tacoma, aged 71. Buried New Tacoma Cemetery, University Place, as "Florence Bell Frost McMillan" [C, FaG index].
  169. **Link:** **Proven**. Her marriage record names "Geo W Frost" and "Lucy Dell" [D]; she is in George W. Frost's household in 1900 [D]; FG p. 267.
  171. **Life**
  172. - Born at Cloverdale while her father was cashier of the town's bank. Her mother died at Santa Cruz on 29 Mar 1887, when Florence was eighteen months old. Her father remarried in August 1888.
  173. - 1900, Spokane, aged 14, with her father, her stepmother Susanna and her half-sisters Ella, May and Nanon [D, FS 1:1:MMPB-46G].
  174. - Married at 18.
  175. - Mrs. A. R. McMillan played golf at Tacoma in 1916 [D, TT].
  176. - 1910-1930, Tacoma, with Alfred [D].
  178. **Siblings**
  179. - Full sister **Dora Belle Frost**, b. 4 Dec 1880, Harlan, Iowa (delayed Iowa birth record names her parents Geo. W. Frost and Lucy Ellen Bell [D index]); m. 26 July 1905 George Emmett McMillan, Alfred's brother [C, FG]; a daughter Harriett B., b. 1907 [C, FG p. 267], presumably the Mrs. R. L. Sullivan of San Francisco named in 1936 [I]; d. 1969.
  180. - Half-sisters, daughters of Susanna Myers: **Ella Susie** (b. Sept 1889, California; d. 1988); **May Elizabeth** (b. May 1892, Washington), whose engagement to William Meissner of Tacoma was announced in 1915, the paper calling her "a former Tacoma girl" [D, TT 30 Apr 1915, p. 5]; **Nanon Alida** (b. Apr 1894, Washington; d. 7 Mar 1944, Medical Lake, Spokane Co. [D, death certificate naming George W. Frost and "Susie Meyer"]).
  182. **Open questions:** her obituary (Jan 1957); whether the family lived in Tacoma before Spokane, as the 1915 notice about May implies.
  184. **Sources:** FS K69J-X92; FG p. 267; 1900-1930 censuses; Washington county marriages; FaG index.
  186. ---
  188. ### 4. William McMillan (1841/2 - 1927)
  190. **Vital facts**
  191. - Born Nova Scotia. September 1841 (1900 census) [D]; about 6 Mar 1842 by the age on his death certificate, "85 years 9 days" [D, FS 1:1:N3PX-GXK]; c. 1843 (1880 census, aged 37). Came to the United States in 1845 (1900 census) [D].
  192. - Married Harriet E. Adams at Fall River, Columbia County, Wisconsin. Index date **12 Sept 1862** [D, Wisconsin Marriages, FS 1:1:XRLS-C6G, Columbia Co. certificate no. 02652, FS film 1275881]. The index names his parents Duncan and Mary McMillen and hers Robert and Caroline Adams, and gives his birthplace as Nova Scotia. The 1900 census says they had been married **35 years**, that is, about 1865 [D]. Harriet was born about January 1848 (see 5), so in Sept 1862 she was 14. Their first child was born about 1866/7. The certificate image should settle the year.
  193. - Died 15 Mar 1927, Tacoma, aged 85 [D, death certificate]. Obituary in a Tacoma paper the same day, indexed as "merchant," aged 85 [D index, GenealogyBank via FS 1:1:Q5QR-3NFR]. Buried Mountain View Memorial Park, Lakewood [C, FaG 43882380].
  195. **Link to Duncan:** **Proven** (1860 census in Duncan's household; the marriage index naming Duncan and Mary; HDC (1880) listing a son William).
  197. **Life**
  198. - Aged about four when his parents left Nova Scotia for Wisconsin in 1845. 1850 and 1860, Calamus, Dodge County [D]. His younger brother Malcolm died of wounds received at Shiloh in May 1862 (see 8). No Civil War service has been found for William.
  199. - After marrying, in Iowa by about 1866: sons William E. (b. c. 1867) and George (b. 1869) were born there. Back in Calamus in 1870, a household of four [D, 1870 census, 1:1:MN9H-XSV]. Then Iowa again: Malcolm D. (1871), Alice (1872), Roy (1877), Fred (1879) and Everett (Sept 1881) were born in Iowa [D, 1880 and 1900 censuses].
  200. - 1880, Rock Township, Mitchell County, Iowa: "Wm. McMillen," 37, **"Farming & Teaching,"** born Canada, father born Nova Scotia, **mother born Scotland**; wife "Hellen H.," 32; six children and a boarder born in Wisconsin to German parents [D, 1:1:MDLQ-K3F]. Harriet's parents were in neighbouring Worth County.
  201. - Minnesota: Alfred born at Park Rapids, Hubbard County, in January 1884 [D].
  202. - Washington Territory by June 1887, when Frank was born there [D, 1900 census].
  203. - 1900, Tacoma, with Harriet and sons Malcolm, Everett, Alfred and Frank [D, 1:1:MMPP-ZVL]. FS's 1900 residence "Justice Precinct 1, Ward, Texas" is a misplaced standardization; the census record is Tacoma. **Disproven.**
  204. - 1910 and 1920, Tacoma [D].
  205. - March 1911: "William McMillan filed a petition... asking to be appointed guardian of his grandchildren, Barbara, Irene and Frankie McMillan" [D, TT 30 Mar 1911, p. 8]. Whether this is this William is not established (**Possible**).
  207. **Spouse:** Harriet Ellen Adams (5).
  209. **Children:** see 2.
  211. **Open questions:** the marriage year; what he did in Tacoma ("merchant" in the obituary index); the move from Minnesota to Washington, 1884-1887; his obituary text.
  213. **Sources:** FS LR2B-Q1Z; 1860-1920 censuses; Wisconsin Marriages; Washington death certificate; GenealogyBank obituary index; FaG.
  215. ---
  217. ### 5. Harriet Ellen Adams (1847/8 - 1926)
  219. **Vital facts**
  220. - Born about 5 Jan 1848, Wisconsin, by the age on her death certificate, "78 years 6 months 26 days" [D, FS 1:1:N3P4-XHJ]. FS gives 5 Feb 1847 at Fall River, Columbia Co., without a source. The 1850 census gives her age as 2 [D]; the 1880 and 1900 censuses give 1848 [D]. Her sister Marian was born in Columbia County in 1854 [D], and the family were "early settlers of Columbia Co., Wis." [C, *History of Mitchell and Worth Counties* (1884), p. 468].
  221. - Called Ellen or Helen: "Hellen H." (1880), "Helen Adams" (son's 1904 marriage), "Ellen Adams" (sons' death certificates).
  222. - Died 31 July 1926, Tacoma [D]; buried 2 Aug 1926, Mountain View Memorial Park [C, FaG 43882366]. Her death certificate gives her father only as "Adams" and her mother as "Unknown."
  224. **Link to Robert and Caroline Adams:** **Proven**. 1850 census, Richmond, Walworth Co., Wis.: Robert Adams, 30, Caroline, 36, Harriet E., 2 [D, 1:1:M4DP-LSB]; the Wisconsin marriage index names Robert and Caroline Adams as her parents [D]; Humphreys lists Caroline's children as Jerome B., Ellen and Marion [C].
  226. **Siblings**
  227. - **Jerome B. Adams** (b. c. 1851): "was killed, accidentally, at La Crosse, Wis., about 1884. He was a cool, brave soldier" [C, Humphreys, as quoted; the date sits oddly with an 1883 publication and needs checking].
  228. - **Marian (Marion) Emeline Adams**, b. 18 May 1854, Wisconsin [D, Iowa Old Age Assistance record]; m. (1) 1874 Cyrus Wheeler [C, Mitchell and Worth history]; m. (2) 30 May 1895, Mitchell Co., Iowa, W. H. Yager, she a widow aged 41 born Columbia County [D, 1:1:XJLM-454]; d. 23 Sept 1940, Mitchell, Iowa, aged 87 [D, Iowa death record naming Robert Adams and Caroline Humphry].
  230. **Sources:** FS LR2B-DHF; censuses 1850-1920; Washington death certificate; Iowa marriage and death records for Marian; Humphreys (1883), p. 914; *History of Mitchell and Worth Counties* (1884), p. 468.
  232. ---
  234. ### 8. Duncan McMillan (c. 1812 - 1889)
  236. **Vital facts**
  237. - Born at Lochaber, Antigonish County, Nova Scotia [D, 1874 marriage register, "born Lochaber"]. The date is uncertain:
  238. - 10 Oct 1814, "near Lochaber Lake" (HDC, 1880, a biography supplied in his lifetime) [C].
  239. - 10 Oct 1816 (Wisconsin death record) [D].
  240. - About 1812 by his age at marriage in 1874 (62) and at death in 1889 (77) [D].
  241. - 1813, Nova Scotia (1850 and 1870 censuses); 1810, **Scotland** (1860 census) [D].
  242. - Married (1) 1839, Nova Scotia, Mary McMillan (9) [C, HDC].
  243. - Married (2) 26 Aug 1874, Lochaber, Mary Ann Cameron, spinster, 39, daughter of William and Jane Cameron, by license, Presbyterian, Rev. Jno. F. Forbes officiating; witnesses Hugh Cameron and Malcolm McMillan, the latter presumably a relative [D, Nova Scotia marriage registration 1874, book 1803, p. 51, no. 79; I]. Duncan is "62, widower, farmer," residence "Wisconsin U.S.," born Lochaber, parents "Malcolm & Mary."
  244. - Married (3) 2 Sep 1886, Jefferson County, Wisconsin, Maggie Heinig, daughter of Frederick Heinig and Katrina Dea. The index names Duncan's parents as Malcolm and Mary McMillan [D, Wisconsin Marriages, FS 1:1:XRJ2-9B4]. Her age is not in the index; FS's "b. 1864" for her has no source.
  245. - Died 19 Nov 1889, Beaver Dam: "Duncan McMillan, a resident of Dodge county since 1845, died at his home in Beaver Dam yesterday, aged 77 years" [D, *Watertown Republican*, 20 Nov 1889, p. 5]. The Wisconsin death record gives "Duncan Mcmullen," retired farmer, born 10 Oct 1816, Nova Scotia, parents "Malcon" and Mary, spouse Maggie, burial "Beaver Dam, south of" [D, FS 1:1:XL3Q-T2V].
  247. **Link to Malcolm and Mary:** **Proven** as to the names (three independent records). Whether his father is the Malcolm whom Rankin names as a settler of Lochaber Lake is **Probable** (see 16).
  249. **Life**
  250. - His own account, as printed in 1880:
  251. > DUNCAN McMILLAN, retired farmer, Beaver Dam; born in Nova Scotia, near Lochaber Lake, Oct. 10, 1814; came to America in 1845, and to Wisconsin the same year, locating in Calamus Township, Dodge Co., where he engaged in farming, which he followed until 1877, when he rented his farm and purchased a residence in the city of Beaver Dam, to which he moved and retired from active pursuits. Married, in Nova Scotia, in 1839, Miss Mary McMillan, of that place, who died Sept. 8, 1872. Married the second time, in Nova Scotia, Aug. 26, 1874, Miss Mary Cameron, also a native of that place, who was born May 8, 1835; has seven children living, two having died; those living are Mary, William, Alexander, Alfred, Pannie, Euphemia and Sarah; those dead are Malcolm and Daniel.
  252. >
  253. > HDC (1880), p. 588.
  254. - 1850, Calamus: "Dunkin M'Mullen," 37, born Nova Scotia, dwelling 686 [D; the rest of the household is not indexed with him]. Nearby, dwelling 717: John McMillan, 34, born Scotland, wife Christine, children William (6, N.S.), Penuel (3, N.S.), John (2, Wis.), Alpin (1, Wis.), Isabel (infant), and Jesse, 29, born Scotland [D, 1:1:M4DF-QRK]. Also in Calamus: Hugh M'Mullen, 46, born Scotland, wife Susan, with sons Alexander, Donald, Malcolm and Dugald born in Nova Scotia 1838-1845 [D]. The Calamus McMillans were a cluster of Antigonish families.
  255. - 1860, Calamus: Duncan, 50 (born "Scotland"), Mary, 41 (Nova Scotia), Mary 20, William 18 and Malcolm 16 (all born Nova Scotia), and Daniel 14, Alexander 11, **Alpin 9**, "Pinwell" 6, Euphina 4 and Sarah A. (infant), born Wisconsin [D, 1:1:MWMP-DMJ]. Alpin (b. c. 1851) is presumably the "Alfred" of 1870 (b. c. 1852) and of the 1880 biography [I, Probable].
  256. - 1862: son **Malcolm**, 18, Co. C, 16th Wisconsin Infantry: "Wnd. Shiloh; died May 11, '62, Camp Dennison, O., wnds." [D, *Roster of Wisconsin Volunteers* (1886), vol. 2, p. 11]; "McMillan, Malcolm, Pvt., from Calamus" [C, Hetzel, *Wisconsin Deaths at Shiloh*].
  257. - 1870, Calamus: Duncan, 57, Mary, 51, Mary 29, Alexander 21, Alfred 18, "Pennie" 16, Euphemia 13, Sarah A. 10 [D, 1:1:MN9H-JSQ].
  258. - Daughter Mary married Henry Farr, 15 Oct 1871, and (as Mary Farr) George L. Stultz, 21 June 1881, both in Dodge Co. [D index]. Daughter Penuel married a Stewart and died 19 Feb 1883, buried Beaver Dam [C, FaG index]. Alfred d. 1881 and Sarah A. d. 1882 per FS [C].
  259. - Mary died September 1872. In the summer of 1874 Duncan went back to Lochaber and married Mary Ann Cameron there. Her family had come from Lochaber in Scotland to Lochaber, Antigonish County, about 1830 [C, Rankin, pp. 84-85].
  260. - 1877, retired to Beaver Dam. By 1886 Mary Ann was evidently dead or gone, and he married Maggie Heinig.
  261. - A son **Alexander** (b. 1849) probably stayed in Dodge County: an Alexander McMillan with a wife Lizzie (Zieske) and eleven children lived in Westford township in 1900, "of Scotch ancestry... an honored veteran of the Civil war" [C, Hubbell, *Dodge County* (1913), vol. 2, p. 405; D, 1900 census]. Identity with Duncan's son is **Probable**; a Wisconsin marriage index entry for Alexander McMillan and Lizzie A. Zieske names Duncan as father [D index, attached to Duncan on FS].
  263. **Spouses**
  264. - **Mary McMillan** (9).
  265. - **Mary Ann Cameron** (b. 8 or 9 May 1835), daughter of William and Jane Cameron of Lochaber [D]. Her fate after 1880 is unknown.
  266. - **Maggie Heinig**, of Jefferson County, daughter of Frederick Heinig and Katrina Dea [D index]. Living 1889.
  268. **Open questions:** Mary Ann Cameron's death; Duncan's grave (Leipsig Cemetery, about four miles southwest of Beaver Dam, holds Mary's); his probate (Dodge County, 1889-1890); his farm on the 1877/78 Snyder, Van Vechten map of Dodge County; Daniel's death; Malcolm's service record.
  270. **Sources:** FS L6XR-DRD; HDC (1880), p. 588; Nova Scotia marriage registration 1874 (archives.novascotia.ca/vital-statistics/marriage/?ID=39058); Wisconsin marriage and death indexes; 1850-1870 censuses; *Watertown Republican*, 20 Nov 1889; *Roster of Wisconsin Volunteers*, vol. 2; Hubbell (1913); Rankin (1929).
  272. ---
  274. ### 9. Mary McMillan (c. 1819 - 1872)
  276. **Vital facts**
  277. - Born about 1819. Nova Scotia per the 1860 and 1870 censuses [D]; **Scotland** per her son William's 1880 census entry ("mother born Scotland") [D].
  278. - Married 1839, Nova Scotia, Duncan McMillan [C, HDC].
  279. - Died 8 Sept 1872 (HDC) or 9 Sept (FS), Calamus. Buried Leipsig Cemetery, Beaver Dam [C, FaG index, "Mary McMillin"].
  281. **Parents:** **Probable**: William McMillan and Penuel MacDougall.
  282. - Dobson, *Directory of Scottish Settlers in North America*, vol. 7: "McMILLAN, WILLIAM, Glen Urquhart, emigrated to Pictou, Nova Scotia, 1818, settled at South River, Antigonish, wife Penuel MacDougall, father of Donald, Alpine, etc." citing *Transactions of the Gaelic Society of Inverness* 53: 448 [C, read as a snippet only].
  283. - Duncan and Mary named daughters Penuel and Mary and a son Alpin [D, 1860 census].
  284. - John McMillan (b. c. 1816, Scotland) of Calamus named children Penuel and Alpin in the 1840s [D, 1850 census]. FS gives William and Penuel a son John (b. 1814) and a son Alpin [C]. John is probably Mary's brother [I, Probable].
  285. - "Penuel Ann MacMillan," d. February 1870, aged 88, buried South Beaver Dam, Dodge Co. [C, FaG index, 1:1:QVVP-RRYP]. Penuel thus came to Wisconsin and died near her daughter [I].
  286. - Against: if Mary was born in Scotland, as her son said in 1880, she was born before the 1818 emigration, which fits; if in Nova Scotia, as the 1860 and 1870 censuses say, after it, which also fits. Neither date contradicts the identification.
  288. **What is wrong on FamilySearch.** FS gives William (L1W8-GHV) a christening at Urquhart on 6 Apr 1786 and a death in Scotland on 4 Sept 1875 as a "pauper" (Scottish civil registration). A man who emigrated in 1818 and whose wife died in Wisconsin in 1870 is unlikely to be that pauper. The death is **Disproven** as attached [I, strong]. FS also attaches Urquhart christenings of children down to 1830; any after 1818 belong to another couple [I]. The earlier ones (Euphin 1811, Donald 1812, John 1814, Janet 1816) may be theirs and should be checked against the parish register.
  290. **Sources:** FS LRC7-64L, L1W8-GHV, L1W8-NY1; 1850-1880 censuses; HDC; Dobson vol. 7; FaG index.
  292. ---
  294. ### 16. Malcolm McMillan of Lochaber (living 1838)
  296. **What is documented**
  297. - Named as Duncan's father, with wife Mary, in the 1874 Nova Scotia register, the 1886 Wisconsin marriage and the 1889 Wisconsin death record [D].
  298. - 1838 census of Nova Scotia, Dorchester Township, Sydney (later Antigonish) County: "Malcom McMillan," farmer, family of 6, listed near Donald McMillan, Alexander McMillan, Widow Cameron, a Widow McMillan (family of 8), John Cameron, Hugh McMillan and Duncan McEachern [D, Nova Scotia Archives, RG 1 vol. 449 no. 177].
  299. - Rankin, *History of the County of Antigonish* (1929): about 1810 Malcolm McMillan, Hugh McMillan and John Cameron, natives of Lochaber, settled near what had been called College Lake (from a 5,000-acre tract reserved for King's College) and renamed it Lochaber in honour of their native place [C, paraphrased; page not yet fixed]. Rankin's genealogy "MacMillan, of Lochaber" (about p. 324) describes three brothers (Malcolm, John and Hugh) and three sisters, the sisters marrying two John Camerons and an Archibald MacEachern; Malcolm's issue are given as Angus, Donald ("Squire"), Malcolm, John, and a daughter who married David Fisher. Duncan is not named [C].
  301. **Link to Duncan:** the names are **Proven**. That Duncan's father is Rankin's Malcolm is **Probable**: Duncan was born at Lochaber c. 1812, just after the settlement, and emigrated in 1845, which may explain his absence from a list compiled in Nova Scotia [I].
  303. **Unverified on FS:** born c. 1783 at Kilmallie, Inverness-shire; died 12 Apr 1840, buried North Lochaber Cemetery (FaG 156403634, not seen); wife "Mary McMillan" b. c. 1792 (her surname is not in any record seen; the Wisconsin marriage index simply gives the couple's surname). A second wife "Margaret Thomson (1785-1832)" is also attached.
  305. **The ship.** FS's life sketch says Malcolm came in 1801 on the *Nora* from Fort William with his parents and seven siblings. A *Nora* carrying about 500 passengers from Fort William to Pictou in 1801, with smallpox aboard, appears in modern secondary works (Campey, citing MacLaren's *Pictou Book*, 1954), but no passenger list has been found, Patterson's 1877 *History of the County of Pictou* names the *Sarah* and the *Pigeon* for that year, and no source puts this family aboard. **Possible** at most. Rankin dates the Lochaber settlement to about 1810.
  307. **Sources:** 1838 census; Rankin (1929; archive.org historyofcountyo0000rank); Patterson (1877), pp. 226-227; Campey, *After the Hector*.
  309. ---
  311. ### 32 and above. The McMillan chain on FamilySearch above Malcolm: Disproven
  313. FS continues: **John McMillan** (c. 1760-c. 1830) and **Ann Kennedy** (1765-c. 1792) of "Glen Albyn," said to have named Lochaber lake; then **Duncan McMillan** (b. 1732 Stevenston, Ayrshire; d. 1827 Louis Head, Shelburne Co., N.S.; also "Duncan McNeil"), **Katherin McEachern**; **Malcom John McMillan** (1716 Kintyre - 1805 Cumberland Co., North Carolina) and **Catherine McArthur** of Jura; and **John Malcolm McMillan** (b. 1678 Kilbride, Bute) and **Flora MacLean**.
  315. - John and Ann have no sources at all. Ann is given a death about 1792 in Antigonish, nine years before the family is supposed to have emigrated, and a residence in Inverness in 1841.
  316. - Rankin credits the naming of Lochaber lake to Malcolm, Hugh and John Cameron, not to an older John.
  317. - Shelburne is a Loyalist town on the south shore of Nova Scotia; Cumberland County, North Carolina, was settled from Argyll; Stevenston and Bute are on the Firth of Clyde. None connects to Lochaber, Kilmallie, Urquhart or Antigonish.
  318. - **Disproven** as a chain. These persons should be detached from Malcolm. The family's Scottish origin in Lochaber (Kilmallie parish, Inverness-shire) is **Probable** from Rankin and the place-name; the parish of origin and parentage of Malcolm are unknown.
  320. ---
  322. ### 10 and 11. Robert Adams (c. 1820 - 1909) and Caroline Humphrey (1814 - 1889)
  324. - **Robert Adams**: born about 1820, New York [D, 1850 census]. 1850, Richmond, Walworth Co., Wis. [D]; early settlers of Columbia Co. [C]; 1880, Lincoln Township, Worth Co., Iowa [D]; 1900, Mitchell Co., Iowa [D]. Died 1909; buried Oakwood Cemetery, Plymouth, Cerro Gordo Co., Iowa [C, IAGenWeb transcription].
  325. - **Caroline Humphrey**: born 22 Mar 1814, Richmond, Ontario Co., N.Y. [C, Humphreys, p. 914]. Six years older than her husband [D, 1850 census]. Died 1889; buried Oakwood Cemetery, Plymouth [C].
  326. - Marriage date and place not found.
  327. - Children: Harriet Ellen (5), Jerome B., Marian Emeline (see 5).
  328. - **Caroline's parents** (22, 23): **Joseph Humphrey**, b. 16 Mar 1782, Windham Co., Conn.; m. about 1802 Hannah Enos; lived at Marcellus, then Steuben, Ontario and Chautauqua counties, N.Y., then Whitewater, Wis., where he died in 1864 aged 82 (Humphreys) or 6 Sept 1866 (FS) [C]. He and James G. Humphrey settled in Richmond Township, Walworth Co., in **1839** on Section 7 (FS's 1837 is James's date), and Joseph was elected a supervisor at the first town meeting, 5 Apr 1842 [C, *History of Walworth County* (1882), pp. 776-777]. "Deacon of the Baptist Church, and a man generally respected and beloved" [C, Humphreys]. **Hannah Enos**, b. 31 May 1781, Union, Conn., daughter of Joseph Enos (b. 20 Jan 1721) by his third wife Abigail Keyes of Ashford (m. 21 Dec 1778) [C, *History of Union, Conn.* (1893), pp. 339-340]; d. 1855 at Whitewater [C].
  329. - **Joseph's parents** (44, 45): Ebenezer Humphrey, born about 1725 in Windham or Tolland Co., Conn., or Massachusetts (FS's "1739 Ashford" is unsupported), who may belong to the family of Capt. Ebenezer Humphrey of Oxford, Mass.; and his second wife Lucy, daughter of Joseph Robbins, "deaf from her youth," who later married a Cheney and died in Chautauqua County in 1835 [C, Humphreys, pp. 913-915].
  330. - Caroline's brother **Capt. Jasper Humphrey** was "of a roving disposition; followed a sea-faring life for forty years," commanded steamers between Milwaukee and Grand Haven, and was later harbor master at Milwaukee [C, Humphreys].
  331. - Hannah Enos's mother on FS, "Abigail Chaffe," is **Disproven** by the Union history; whether Abigail Keyes was born a Chaffee is unknown. FS's Enos line above Joseph (James Eno, Hannah Birge, and the Windsor, Conn., families) and the Humphrey line above Ebenezer (Samuel Humphrey, Arthur Humphrey) have not been checked.
  333. ---
  335. ## Part One (continued): The Frost side
  337. ### 6. George William Frost (1850 - 1925)
  339. **Vital facts**
  340. - Born 16 Apr 1850, Heart Prairie, Walworth Co., Wisconsin [C, FG p. 267]. In the 1850 census, aged 4 months, "G W Frost," in the household of his grandfather Richard Fairchild at La Grange [D, 1:1:M4D5-G8Q].
  341. - Married (1) 31 Dec 1876, Elkhorn, Walworth Co., Lucy E. Bell [D, Wisconsin county marriages, 1:1:QK85-3FYZ, naming Stephen G. and Elizabeth Frost and William H. and Adeline Bell as parents; FG].
  342. - Married (2) 23 Aug 1888, Cloverdale, Sonoma Co., Calif., Susanna (Susie) Myers, aged 29, born Minnesota [D, California marriages, 1:1:41H5-LD3Z; FG gives her birth as 22 Feb 1859].
  343. - Died 26 Oct 1925, Tacoma [D, Pierce County death register]. Burial at Lakewood per FS [C].
  345. **Link:** **Proven** (1850 and 1860 censuses with Stephen; the 1876 marriage index; the 1910 census listing Stephen G. Frost as "Father" in George's household [D, 1:1:MGJT-5LQ]).
  347. **Life**
  348. - 1860, La Grange, aged 11, with Stephen and Elizabeth [D]. To Iowa with them in the mid-1860s.
  349. - 1876, married Lucy Bell at Elkhorn. 1880, Harlan, Shelby Co., Iowa, "Clerk In Lumber Yd," 34, with Lucy, 22 [D, 1:1:MDLN-99W]; his father was the lumber dealer. Dora Belle born there 4 Dec 1880. In summer 1881 "G. W. Frost" was on the subscription list for digging the cellar of Harlan's new opera house [C, Kenyon, *Past and Present of Shelby County* (1915), p. 239].
  350. - To California, about 1883 (FG says the family went in 1883).
  351. - **Banking.**
  352. - 28 Feb 1884: incorporation of "the Cloverdale Banking and Commercial Company, to manage and conduct a general banking business at Cloverdale, in Sonoma county. Directors, J. E. Chalfant, George W. Frost, Isaac E. Shaw, A. D. Starr, George W. Prescott. Capital stock, $200,000, divided into 2,000 shares" [D, *Sacramento Daily Record-Union*, 28 Feb 1884, p. 3]. The bank occupied a two-story brick building with a lodge room on the upper floor [C, Lewis, *Illustrated History of Sonoma County* (1889)].
  353. - 11 Sept 1885: "The Riverside Water Company has been incorporated; capital, $10,000 ... George W. Frost was appointed Treasurer" [D, *Record-Union*, 12 Sept 1885, p. 4]. Florence was born the next day.
  354. - 1887 *San Francisco Business Directory*, Cloverdale: the bank, "I E Shaw president, G W Frost cashier," and "Frost Geo W, secretary" [D; the data probably predate his move].
  355. - 27 Oct 1886: "A new banking corporation has been organized at Santa Cruz, to be called the City Bank. The capital stock will be $100,000. L. K. Baldwin is President, F. A. Hihn, Vice-President, and G. W. Frost, Cashier" [D, *Record-Union*, 29 Oct 1886, p. 2; *Los Angeles Daily Herald*, 28 Oct 1886, p. 1]. The bank opened in late December 1886 [C, Santa Cruz Public Library index to the *Santa Cruz Daily Surf*, 29 Dec 1886].
  356. - 29 Mar 1887: Lucy died at Santa Cruz.
  357. - The Santa Cruz library's index to the *Daily Surf* tags G. W. Frost on 2 July 1887 ("Cashier, Bank of Santa Cruz County," with E. J. Cox) and on 27 July 1887 ("**Pistol accident**," p. 3, col. 3). By 1 Sept 1887 W. C. Hoffman was cashier of the City Bank [C, index entries only; articles not read]. He seems to have left the City Bank within the year [I].
  358. - 23 Aug 1888, remarried at Cloverdale. Washington by 1889 or soon after (May born there May 1892).
  359. - 1900, Spokane, "married 11 years," with Susanna, Florence and three younger daughters [D, 1:1:MMPB-462].
  360. - About April 1902: "The Yakima Land & Live Stock Company was organized about April, 1902, by Dr. Hilscher, M. N. Kuppenberg, J. W. Oakes, G. W. Frost and George W. Stoltz. They purchased thirty-seven thousand, seven hundred and twenty-one acres of land in Yakima in the Moxie valley from the railroad company for one dollar and five cents per acre on the six-year payment plan" [D, Durham, *History of the City of Spokane* (1912), vol. 2, p. 462]. The passage goes on to the irrigation surveys that preceded the federal Kittitas project.
  361. - 1910, Spokane Ward 4, with Susanna, three daughters, his widowed father Stephen, 83, and a boarder [D]. FG (1911 data) says he and all his children lived in Spokane.
  362. - 1920, Spokane [D]. Died at Tacoma, 1925.
  363. - **FS occupation "Banker, Spokane Falls": unsupported.** He is not among the directors of the six Spokane Falls national banks in the 1891 *Rand McNally Bankers' Directory* or the Traders National officers [C]. His documented banking is in California.
  365. **Spouses**
  366. - **Lucy Ellen Bell** (7).
  367. - **Susanna (Susie) Myers** (b. Feb 1859, Minnesota; d. 1930), father born Germany (1910 census) [D].
  369. **Open questions:** the 1887 pistol accident; why he left Santa Cruz; his business in Spokane, 1889-1920 (city directories); his Tacoma obituary (Oct 1925).
  371. **Sources:** FS 2Z38-5XC; FG p. 267; UG vol. 2, pp. 262-263; 1850-1920 censuses; marriage records; *Sacramento Daily Record-Union* 1884-1886; *Los Angeles Daily Herald* 1886; *San Francisco Business Directory* 1887; Santa Cruz Public Library local news index; Kenyon (1915); Durham (1912).
  373. ---
  375. ### 7. Lucy Ellen Bell (1858 - 1887)
  377. **Vital facts**
  378. - Born 2 Feb 1858, Elkhorn, Walworth Co., Wisconsin [C, Gilmore's additions; FS].
  379. - Married 31 Dec 1876, Elkhorn, George W. Frost [D].
  380. - Died 29 Mar 1887, Santa Cruz, California, aged 29 [C, FG; Gilmore; FaG index "Lucy E. Bell Frost"].
  382. **Link:** **Proven** (1860 and 1870 censuses with William H. and Adeline Bell; the 1876 marriage index naming them).
  384. **Life:** 1860 Walworth and 1870 Elkhorn with her parents [D]. Married at 18. 1880, Harlan, Iowa (indexed "Lucy D. Frost," 22) [D]. Daughters Dora Belle (1880) and Florence (1885). Died at Santa Cruz five months after her husband became cashier of the City Bank. Her father died in 1887 or 1888.
  386. **Open questions:** her death notice (Santa Cruz *Surf* or *Sentinel*, end of March 1887); her grave (FaG index gives Santa Cruz).
  388. **Sources:** FS KPH2-526; censuses; Wisconsin county marriages; FG; Gilmore's *More Fairchilds*, p. 140.
  390. ---
  392. ### 12. Stephen George Frost (1826 - 1919)
  394. **Vital facts**
  395. - Born 26 Oct 1826, Rensselaerville, Albany Co., New York [C, FG p. 191].
  396. - Married 27 May 1849, Windham, Greene Co., N.Y., Elizabeth Fairchild [C, FG; Gilmore's "Nassau co." from an LDS microfiche is less likely].
  397. - Died 2 May 1919, Spokane, aged 92 [D, death certificate, 1:1:N3GH-6FR, naming his father as George Frost]. Buried Greenwood Memorial Terrace, Spokane [C].
  399. **Link to George (24):** **Proven**. FG p. 110 lists Stephen G. among George and Abigail's children [C]; his death certificate names his father George Frost [D]; George died in 1860 at Heart Prairie, where Stephen lived [C].
  401. **Life**
  402. - "Stephen left home in his thirteenth year, going to Coxsackie... went to Wisconsin, thence to Iowa in 1866, to California 1883, Washington 1889" [C, FG p. 191]. FG adds that from Coxsackie he went to New York City and lived there six or seven years from 1841, and that in 1911 he was "now living with his son in Spokane."
  403. - 1850, La Grange, Walworth Co., aged 24, with his infant son, in his father-in-law Richard Fairchild's household [D].
  404. - Town clerk of Sugar Creek, 1854-1855; chairman of the Sugar Creek board and its member of the county board of supervisors, 1858-1859 [C, *History of Walworth County* (1882), pp. 454, 941-942; Beckwith (1912)].
  405. - 1860, La Grange, farmer, with Elizabeth, George 11, "Irvins" 7 and Frances 3 [D, 1:1:MW9Z-QZW].
  406. - Iowa: Monticello, Jones Co., by 1868, when S. G. Frost was a city councilman [C, *History of Jones County* (1879), p. 467]. On 11 Feb 1872 a fire destroyed the frame flouring mill of "Hibbard, Frost & Wood," a $14,000 loss with no insurance [C, same]; which Frost is not stated.
  407. - 1880, Harlan, Shelby Co., "Lumber Dealer," 53 [D, 1:1:MDLN-99Q]. No Frost lumber dealer appears in the Shelby County histories; an 1879 list has "Coenen & Fairchilds, lumber dealers" [C, Kenyon (1915), p. 239], possibly his wife's kin [I, Possible].
  408. - California: registered to vote at Cloverdale, 25 Mar 1884 and 7 Mar 1888 [D, California Great Registers]. Elizabeth died at Cloverdale in May 1889; an obituary is indexed in the *Santa Cruz Daily Surf*, 10 May 1889, p. 3 [C, index only].
  409. - Spokane: "Spokane Marble Works, S. G. Frost, Proprietor, Wholesale and Retail Marble and Granite Dealer... This industry was started eleven years ago by Mr. Myrick. Mr. Frost purchased it ten years ago. It is located at 0827 Monroe street. H. Matzke is the manager, and five men are employed" [C, Edwards, *An Illustrated History of Spokane County* (1900), near p. 102]. Identity with Stephen is **Probable** [I: the only S. G. Frost known in Spokane].
  410. - "CHICKENS CLAIMED. S. G. Frost, owner of the chickens taken by Prisoner John George, identified his property today. George did not appear in court and his bond of $20 was forfeited and Mr. Frost took possession of the chickens" [D, *Spokane Press*, 14 Nov 1902, p. 1].
  411. - 1910, widowed, aged 83, living with his son George W. in Spokane [D].
  413. **Children:** George William (6); **Irving (Ervin) W.**, b. c. 1852/3, Walworth Co., m. 16 Oct 1881, Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa, Mary Dorcas [D, Iowa marriage, naming Stephen G. Frost and "Elizabeth Fairchilds"], d. 1918; **Frances Ruth**, b. c. 1857. FG p. 191 lists only George W.; the 1860 census shows all three.
  415. **Sources:** FS K8C7-769; FG pp. 110, 191; censuses 1850-1910; California Great Registers; Washington death certificate; Walworth, Jones and Shelby county histories; Edwards (1900); *Spokane Press*.
  417. ---
  419. ### 13. Elizabeth Fairchild (1830 - 1889)
  421. - Born 1 Apr 1830 (FS; Gilmore) or 21 Apr 1830 (FG), East Jewett, Greene Co., N.Y. [C].
  422. - Married 27 May 1849, Stephen G. Frost [C].
  423. - Died 6 May 1889 (FG) or 8 May (Gilmore), Cloverdale, Calif. [C].
  424. - **Link to Richard C. Fairchild and Nancy Woodworth: Proven.** 1850 census, La Grange: in their household as "Elizabeth Fairchild," 20, with Stephen Frost and "G W Frost" [D]; her son Ervin's 1881 Iowa marriage names her "Elizabeth Fairchilds" [D]; FG; Gilmore.
  425. - **Richard C. Fairchild** (26), b. 27 Apr 1808, East Jewett; m. 3 July 1829 (Gilmore) or 13 July 1829 (FG p. 191) Nancy Woodworth; La Grange, Wis., by 1850, a county supervisor in 1855 [C, Walworth history] and, per an FS note, a lay Methodist preacher; sold his farm in 1865 and moved to Iowa (Monticello 1870, Marion 1880); d. 1 Jun 1882, Marion, Linn Co., Iowa; buried Oak Shade Cemetery; a will of 1882 is on Ancestry [C/D]. Gilmore's proof of the Woodworth marriage is a deed of 1 Apr 1846 naming Richard and Nancy among the heirs of Lemuel Woodworth [C].
  426. - **Nancy Woodworth** (27), b. 12 Dec 1808; d. 15 Sept 1891 (FS) or 16 Sept (FG), Marion, Iowa [C/D, Iowa death record]; daughter of Lemuel and Lydia (Winter) Woodworth of East Jewett [C, FG p. 191].
  427. - Richard's father: see the Fairchild note below.
  429. ---
  431. ### 24. George Frost (1791 - 1860)
  433. - Born "Feb. 23, 1791" (FG p. 55; UG) or "Mch. 23, 1791" (FG p. 109) [C]. Nine Partners per FS; FG does not state the place.
  434. - Married 6 Mar 1824 "Abigail Tanner, widow of Henry Showerman" [C, FG p. 109].
  435. - 1850: living at Rensselaerville with his brother Daniel, aged 59 [D, 1:1:MCTF-QQC]. Abigail is not in that household.
  436. - Died 28 June 1860; buried Heart Prairie, Wis. [C, FG; FaG index]. He had evidently followed his son west after 1850 [I].
  437. - Children: Phebe Ann; Stephen G.; William Tanner (b. 9 Oct 1830), who "Enlisted in war," returned to Cobleskill, N.Y., and married a widow; Sarah Diana (m. Sewall J. Viles of Sugar Creek, Wis.) [C, FG pp. 109-110].
  438. - "Friends' Records of Rensselaerville say Geo. and Sarah were of that place" (FG p. 110, of his parents) [C].
  439. - **Abigail Tanner** (25): her first husband was Henry Showerman; her son Henry T. Showerman "d. on a revenue cutter at Balize, nr. New Orleans, during Mexican War" [C, FG]. FG gives no birth date or parents. FS's 20 June 1798 birth and parents **Joshua Tanner and Diana Gifford: unsupported** (no source found in the *Tanner Genealogy* (1893) or elsewhere).
  440. - **Link to George (48): Proven (compiled)** by FG, which lists George b. 1791 among the children of George and Sarah (Underhill) Frost and follows him to Wisconsin; repeated in UG (same compiler).
  442. ---
  444. ### 48. George Frost (1760 - 1830)
  446. - Born 11 Mar 1760 [C, FG pp. 54-55], "of Ninepartners." FG gives no birthplace; the Cock genealogy (1914, p. 28) says Long Island, which fits the family's move off Long Island in 1763. FS's "Crum Elbow" is unsupported.
  447. - Married 26 Dec 1781, at the Creek Meeting House, Sarah Underhill (b. 6 May 1761 per FG, 6 Apr per UG; d. 5 Oct 1834), daughter of Thomas Underhill and Mercy Dickinson [C, FG; UG says the marriage is in the Nine Partners Quaker records and that a copy of the certificate belongs to the Underhill Society].
  448. - Died 18 Sept 1830 [C].
  449. - Residences: Amawalk; removed from Chappaqua to Creek, 11th of 4th mo. 1788; removed to Coeymans Monthly Meeting, 17th of 5th mo. 1805; Rensselaerville [C, FG]. FS's "Coleman" is a misreading of Coeymans; FS's "Carmel 1810" is not in FG.
  450. - Children: Ethelannah (1783), Esther (1785), Joel (1787), James (1789), George (1791), Daniel (1793), Caleb (1795), Stephen (1797), William (1799), Hannah (1801), Mary (1804) [C, FG p. 55].
  451. - A biography of his grandson Joseph G. Frost, undertaker of Poughkeepsie (quoted on FS without a title, probably from a Dutchess County biographical record of the 1890s), says of "George Frost, our subject's grandfather, a farmer by occupation," that he lived his life near Rensselaerville and that of his six sons three settled nearby, "one located near Madison, Wis., and two in Poughkeepsie" [C]. The Wisconsin son is presumably George (1791) [I].
  452. - **Revolutionary service: Disproven for this George.** FS attaches military service in 1775 and 1779, a roster entry and an 1818 pension ledger. He married by Friends' ceremony in the middle of the war and kept receiving Friends' removal certificates in 1788 and 1805, which would not have happened had he been disowned for bearing arms. FG records Revolutionary service for other Frosts but not for him. The 1840 census of pensioners lists "George P. Frost, 83," of Rochester, Ulster County [D], identified by the SAR as born at New Castle, New Hampshire, 1 Jan 1758, a New Hampshire Continental soldier, pension S44856 [C]; he is the likely owner of the 1818 entry [I, Probable].
  453. - His 1828 Hicksite affiliation (FS) is unverified; the Rensselaerville Monthly Meeting records are at Swarthmore.
  454. - **Link to Isaac (96): Proven (compiled)**, FG p. 31.
  456. ---
  458. ### 96. Isaac Frost (1717 - after 1798) and 97. Mary Cock
  460. - **Isaac**: born "3rd of 4th mo., 1717," Matinecock [C, FG p. 31]. In the Quaker Old Style count that is June 1717; the Cock genealogy renders it "3/4 mo (June) 1717." FS's 3 April is a misreading. License to marry 3 Mar 1737/8 Mary Cock [D, *New York Marriage Licenses previous to 1784*; C, FG].
  461. - In 1741 he bought from Charles Wright and Charles's mother Mary Wright 47 acres with buildings on the west side of Mill River Neck, by the Papaquatunk or Beaver Swamp River, and added land in 1754 and 1755. In 1763 he and Mary sold the farm to John Underhill, in whose family it stayed four generations; the Mill Neck railroad station and post office stood on it by the time of writing [C, Cock genealogy (1914), pp. 27-28, as quoted in the life sketch on Mary Cock's FS profile]. The family moved to Crom Pond in Cortlandt Manor, Westchester Co., and then to Clinton, Dutchess Co. [C, same]. Their farm at Crum Elbow was "one mile north and south, and two miles east and west... purchased from one of the nine partners" [C, FG p. 54]. "He d. in Clinton after 1798" [C, FG p. 31].
  462. - **Mary Cock**: born on the "Birdsall place" at Buckram (Locust Valley), 1722 (FG gives 5 June; the Cock genealogy gives both June and "5/6 mo. (Aug.)"); died at Clinton after 1777 [C]. Daughter of James Cock and Hannah Feake [C, *History and Genealogy of the Cock, Cocks, Cox Family* (1914), pp. 17, 26-29]. FS attaches to her a burial on 13 Dec 1776 at St Mary Coslany, Norwich, England, which belongs to someone else: **Disproven**.
  463. - At the 1698 wedding of Mary's parents, James Cock and Hannah Feke, the Quaker minister Thomas Chalkley was a witness; of his visit to Matinecock among the "Ranters" he wrote "I fought with beasts" [C, Cock genealogy p. 17].
  465. ---
  467. ### 192. William Frost (1674 - 1728) and 193. Hannah Prior
  469. - **William**: born 1674, Matinecock; "He was accidentally killed while slaughtering a beef which fell on him," 29 Nov 1728 [C, FG p. 22]. Buried in the Frost Cemetery, Lattingtown [C, FaG].
  470. - Married about 1700 **Hannah Pryer** (Prior), born 22 Oct 1681 (FS has 22 Dec), died 18 Dec 1771, daughter of John and Elizabeth (Bowne) Pryer of Matinecock [C, FG p. 22]. Ten children with Quaker dates, including Isaac, "b. 3 of 4 mo., 1717."
  471. - FS gives Hannah a 1775 entry as owner of one male slave at Oyster Bay. She died in 1771, so that "Hannah Frost" is another woman: **Disproven** as attached.
  472. - His brother **Wright Frost**, as tax collector in 1707, distrained goods from the Quaker Mary Willets "for the priest's worship house," and Wright's wife was condemned by Westbury Meeting in 1712 for marrying "out of the order of Truth" [C, FG p. 23].
  473. - **Link to William (384): Proven (compiled)**, FG; the elder William's sons are given as William and Wright.
  475. ---
  477. ### 384. William Frost (before 1635 - 1719) and 385. Rebecca Wright
  479. **William**
  480. - Born "prior to 1635." Origin uncertain: "William Frost may have been born in Binsted, Co. Hampshire, Eng., but the probabilities are he was born in America, and his father (perhaps John) may have been a brother of Elder Edmund, of Boston, Mass., or William may have been the son of Elder Edmund..." [C, FG p. 16, footnote]. The Binsted idea rests on a clause in a will FG prints, leaving land on failure of heirs "to any of the Frosts' descended from George Frost born in Binsted, two miles from Farnam in Hampshire in old England" (FG pp. 19-20), on an 1871 letter, and on Binsted register extracts [C]. FS's "Great Walsingham" has no source. **Possible** at most.
  481. - At Southold by 1655 with a brother John; an inhabitant of Setauket [C, FG].
  482. - On 6 Aug 1659 he signed the petition of "Cromwell Bay alias Setauke" asking to be taken under the government of Connecticut, the signers including John Underhill and James Cock [C, FG pp. 16-17].
  483. - On 14 Dec 1674 William Simson assigned his Matinecock farm, bought from the Matinecock Indians in 1667, "unto William ffrost of Seatawcott alis Brookehaven," for a bond of £70 "in Indian Coren at three shillings ꝑ bushell, or in Cattel" [D, *Oyster Bay Town Records* vol. 1 (1916), pp. 90-91]. The farm stayed in the family until a few years before 1912 [C, FG p. 19].
  484. - Not a Quaker himself: in 1693 the petition of George Boardman of Oyster Bay concerned ten acres "seized by Collector Wm. Frost, for taxes" [C, FG p. 21].
  485. - Died 19 Nov 1719, buried on his farm [C, FG]. FG prints a will of 1698; but "William Frost, Esq., of Oyster Bay in Queens County, died intestate. Letters of administration are granted to his wife Elinor, July 19, 1720" [D, *Abstracts of Wills* vol. 2, NYHS Collections 1893, p. 224]. The two conflict; "Elinor" suggests a second wife [C, FG's inference].
  487. **Rebecca Wright**
  488. - Daughter of Nicholas and Ann Wright of Oyster Bay [C]. Married William Frost before 20 May 1673, when Anthony Wright's will names "Rebecca ffrost" [C, FG citing NYGBR 3: 37]. Living 1698. FS's birth at Sandwich in 1642 and death in 1717 have no source.
  489. - **Her first marriage.** About 1662/3 she married Eleazer Leverich (Leveridge) of Huntington, son of Rev. William Leverich. On 1 Apr 1670 Governor Lovelace's council received "The Peticon of Nicholas Wright concerning his Daughter & her Husband Eleazer Leveridge." A commission and instructions followed in May. On 22 Oct 1670 the council declared the marriage void: "with ye Advice of Chirurgions well skill'd & Sober Matrons who privily Examyned both ye man & woman, they made Report... That ye defect was in ye husband & not in ye wife... ye prtended marriage betweene ye said Eleazer Leveridg & Rebeckah Wright is hereby adjudged & declared to be void null & invalid... ye said Rebh hath likewise free libertye to dispose of her selfe in Lawfull marriage." The papers say they had lived together "seauen yeares & a halfe." On 24 Feb 1670/1 Eleazer was ordered to pay her "twenty five pounds in living Cattle... in lieu of what shee brought to him at their Marriage" [D, Paltsits, ed., *Minutes of the Executive Council of the Province of New York: Administration of Francis Lovelace*, vol. 1 (1910), pp. 43, 51, 58, 72, and Collateral Document XVI, pp. 331-336]. A writer of 1872 called it "believed... the first case of divorce by this court" [C, Latting, "The Wright Family, of Oyster Bay," NYGBR 3 (1872): 44].
  490. - The Wright family's English (Norfolk) ancestry is stated as fact in FG but given only as "believed, although not positively proved" by Latting [C]: **Possible**.
  492. ---
  494. ## Families who married in (brief notes)
  496. ### Bell (14, 28)
  498. - **William Hamilton Bell** (14), b. c. 1829, N.Y. [D, censuses]. "William Bell was a carpenter by trade" and "came to Wisconsin from Cattaraugus county, New York" [C, biography of his son Watson T. Bell in Mason, *History of Otter Tail County* (1916), vol. 2, pp. 79-80]. Married Adeline Fairchild 8 Sept 1849 (Gilmore) or 1850 (*East Kill Valley Genealogy*) [C]. 1860 Walworth; 1870 and 1880 Elkhorn, carpenter [D].
  499. - Walworth County coroner: "William H. Bell, then of Elkhorn, had been elected in 1874, but, according to usage, had not 'qualified.' He now hastened to take the oath of office" and petitioned the board, which set his salary at fifteen dollars; he was "chosen at four successive elections (the last one in 1880)" [C, Beckwith, *History of Walworth County* (1912), vol. 1, p. 91; *History of Walworth County* (1882), pp. 455-456].
  500. - Died 28 May 1887 (Gilmore's additions, no place) or 1888 at Cloverdale, Calif. (FG p. 267) [C]. FS's "28 May 1887, Cloverdale" combines the two; FS also cites a Minnesota death index entry. His widow died at St. Cloud, Minnesota, in 1891 and his son Watson lived at Fergus Falls from 1882, so Minnesota is possible. **Unresolved.**
  501. - Children (Gilmore): Dora A. (b. 17 Oct 1851; m. 24 Jan 1875, Walworth Co., Dewitt Stanford [D index]); Watson T. (b. 14 Aug 1853, Sugar Creek; printer in Milwaukee, typesetter on the *Chicago Tribune* to 1882, then a grocer at Fergus Falls, Minn.; d. 1936); John A. (b. 18 Oct 1855, m. 8 Mar 1878, d. 1878); Lucy E. (7); Etta M. (b. 9 Feb 1862, m. Murry B. Humes); Carrie (b. 30 Dec 1866, m. G. H. Callan; d. 1894).
  502. - **John M. Bell** (28): "John M. Bell," 76, widowed, born New York c. 1804, both parents born in **Ireland**, living as "Father" in William H. Bell's household at Elkhorn in 1880 [D, 1:1:MNHL-S2W]. Nothing else known.
  503. - **FS's parents for William H. Bell: Disproven.** FS attaches "Capt." John Bell (b. 22 Dec 1791, Otsego Co.; d. 8 Aug 1886, Greenfield, Milwaukee Co.) and Sarah "Sally" Harrington (1794-1877), and above them a John Bell of Girthon, Kirkcudbrightshire. Capt. John Bell settled in Greenfield in 1842, kept a tavern on the Mukwonago Road from 1850 to 1862 and died there [C, Lacher, "The Taverns and Stages of Early Wisconsin" (1915), pp. 128, 142]. He cannot be the John M. Bell of Elkhorn, born 1804 to Irish parents. The Bell line above John M. Bell is unknown; Cattaraugus County, New York, is the place to look.
  505. ### Fairchild (13, 15, 26, 30, 52)
  507. - **Adeline Asenath Fairchild** (15), b. 27 Mar 1829, Hunter, Greene Co., N.Y.; in 1850 at Conewango, Cattaraugus Co., N.Y., in the household of an Edward Fairchild [D]; m. William H. Bell; d. 17 Mar 1891, St. Cloud, Minn.; buried Elkhorn [C, Gilmore pp. 181-183; FaG index]. **Link to William H. Bell: Proven** (1860-1880 censuses; daughters' marriage records naming "Wm H Bell" and "Adaline Bell").
  508. - **John Fairchild** (30), b. 18 Jan 1803 (FS, from the temple record book of his third wife and *East Kill Valley Genealogy*; Gilmore notes other dates), son of Jonathan; m. (1) Catherine Clawson/Closson, (2) Sally Ann Clawson, (3) Tryphena Pomeroy, who stayed in New York and went to Utah in 1859; at Conewango, Cattaraugus Co., in the 1840s; to Wisconsin about 1851-52; d. 3 Feb 1867, Heart Prairie [C]. **Catherine Clawson** (31): baptized 19 July 1807, Reformed Church, Claverack, Columbia Co., N.Y. [D index]; her gravestone gives "d. 29 Jul. 1831, aged 27 yrs. 1 mo. 3 d." [C, *East Kill Valley Genealogy*; Gilmore gives 1834]. Gilmore's proof of the marriage is a Greene County deed of 29 Oct 1827 naming John and Catherine among the heirs at law of Josiah (or Isiah) Classon [C]. **Adeline's link to John and Catherine: Probable** (compiled, with the deed).
  509. - **Jonathan Fairchild** (52 = 60), b. 29 Aug 1744, Norwalk, Conn., son of Thomas Fairchild and Ann Raymond [C, Gilmore p. 27, from Connecticut vital records]; settled at East Jewett about 1800 and "built the first tannery in Greene county"; d. about 1815, probably at Lexington, town of Hunter (administration bond by his son Henry, 28 Feb 1815) [C, Gilmore pp. 79-81]. Beach's *Early Settlers of East Jewett* names his children as Benjamin, Betsy, Harry, Catharine, Loretta, John, Edward and Richard [C, as quoted on FS]. His wife (53 = 61), mother of Richard and John, was Elizabeth, probably Cooper, but Gilmore herself questions whether both his wives were named Elizabeth and notes a possible confusion with a Jonathan Fairchild who died in 1815 at Bridgewater, Oneida Co. [C]. **Possible** as to the Cooper surname.
  510. - **The second-cousin marriage.** If John (30) and Richard C. (26) were both sons of Jonathan, then Elizabeth Fairchild (13) and Adeline Fairchild (15) were first cousins, and their children George W. Frost (6) and Lucy Ellen Bell (7) were second cousins. The brothers' parentage rests on W. B. Plume's manuscript "Genealogy of the Fairchild Family," which Gilmore says gave no sources, on correspondence, and on circumstantial deed and census evidence [C]. **Probable.** The families lived side by side: Richard and John both in La Grange, Walworth Co., by the 1850s; Stephen G. Frost in Richard's household in 1850.
  512. ### Underhill, Feake, Bowne, Prior, Cock, Wright (49, 97, 193, 385 and above)
  514. Compiled sources only; not checked against primary records in this pass.
  515. - **Sarah Underhill** (49) descends, per UG, through Thomas Underhill (b. 1735), Benjamin, and David (b. 1672) from **Capt. John Underhill** (the soldier of the Pequot War and of New Netherland) and **Elizabeth Feake** [C, UG #145, #41, #9]. **Probable** (compiled).
  516. - **Elizabeth Bowne** (387), b. 8 Oct 1658, m. 2 Nov 1678 John Prier of Killingworth (d. 1 Feb 1698), was a daughter of **John Bowne** of Flushing and Hannah Feake [C, FG pp. 22, 352-353]. John Bowne was arrested in 1662 by Peter Stuyvesant for allowing Quaker meetings in his house, banished, and appealed to the Dutch West India Company, whose reply of 16 Apr 1663 directed that consciences be left free; the documents are printed in FG pp. 353-355 [C]. **Probable** (compiled).
  517. - **Hannah Feake** (Bowne's wife) and **John Feake** (grandfather of Mary Cock) were children of Robert Feake and **Elizabeth Fones**, the widow of Henry Winthrop, son of Governor John Winthrop [C, FG; Cock genealogy]. With Elizabeth Feake (Underhill's wife), the line descends from Robert and Elizabeth Feake three ways [C]. **Probable** (compiled).
  518. - **Mary Cock** (97): see 96.
  520. ### Tanner, Woodworth, Clawson, Harrington, Enos, Robbins and others
  522. FS carries many further generations on these lines (Tanner and Gifford of Rhode Island and Dutchess; Woodworth, Winters and Hunt; Clawson and Schneider; Enos, Birge, Bissell and Watson of Windsor; Robbins, Chaffee, Carpenter and Lyon). None was checked in this pass, and the Tanner and Gifford parents of Abigail Tanner are unsupported. The Harrington, Eldredge and Parker lines on FS belong to Sally Harrington, wife of the wrong John Bell, and should be disregarded.
  524. ---
  526. ## Part Two: Sources
  528. **[D]** primary records and published transcripts or abstracts of them; **[C]** compiled works. "Read" means the record, page or OCR text was examined in this research; "index" means only the index entry was seen; "snippet" means only a search excerpt.
  530. ### FamilySearch records (index entries read; images not viewed unless stated) [D]
  532. - U.S. censuses: 1850 Calamus, Dodge Co., Wis. (Duncan, 1:1:M4DF-M4Z; John McMillan, M4DF-QRK; Hugh M'Mullen); 1850 Richmond, Walworth Co. (Robert Adams, M4DP-LSB); 1850 La Grange, Walworth Co. (Richard Fairchild household with Stephen and G. W. Frost, M4D5-G83); 1850 Rensselaerville, Albany Co., N.Y. (Daniel Frost with George, MCTF-QQC); 1860 Calamus (Duncan, MWMP-DMJ); 1860 La Grange (Stephen G. Frost, MW9Z-QZW); 1870 Calamus (Duncan, MN9H-JSQ; William, MN9H-XSV); 1880 Rock Twp, Mitchell Co., Iowa (William, MDLQ-K3F); 1880 Harlan, Shelby Co., Iowa (George W., MDLN-99W; Stephen G., MDLN-99Q); 1880 Elkhorn, Walworth Co. (William H. Bell with John M. Bell, MNHL-S2W); 1900 Tacoma (William, MMPP-ZVL); 1900 Spokane (George W., MMPB-462); 1910 Tacoma (Alfred, MGJZ-DB3); 1910 Spokane (George W. with Stephen G., MGJT-5LQ); 1920 Tacoma (A. R., MHJM-784); 1920 Spokane (MHFC-L9D); 1930 Tacoma (Alfred, XC3T-RMW); 1930 San Francisco (Holbrook, XCN7-CZV); 1940 Honolulu (Holbrook, VB96-CLX).
  533. - Wisconsin Marriages, 1836-1930: William McMillen and Harriet E. Adams, 12 Sep 1862, Fall River (XRLS-C6G; Columbia Co. cert. 02652, FS film 1275881, DGS 007714201); Duncan McMillan and Maggie Heinig, 2 Sep 1886, Jefferson Co. (XRJ2-9B4).
  534. - Wisconsin County Marriages: George W. Frost and Lucy E. Bell, 31 Dec 1876, Walworth Co. (QK85-3FYZ); Dewitt Stanford and Dora A. Bell, 24 Jan 1875 (QK85-37PF); Henry Farr and Mary McMillan, 15 Oct 1871 (QK85-7Y8S); Geo. L. Stultz and Mary Farr, 21 June 1881 (QK85-W1Z4).
  535. - Wisconsin Death Records, 1867-1907: Duncan Mcmullen, 1889 (XL3Q-T2V).
  536. - Washington County Marriages: A. R. M. McMillian and Florena Frost, 23 Jan 1904, Spokane (QPMT-SQFZ; image 3:1:33S7-9TMQ-SSY6; also QPM1-NWPH).
  537. - Washington Death Certificates: William McMillan, 1927 (N3PX-GXK); Harriet Ellen McMillan, 1926 (N3P4-XHJ); Malcom D. McMillan, 1920 (N3G8-FKQ); George E. McMillan, 1936 (N35R-1HQ); Fred W. McMillan, 1954 (N3BX-MQ1); Stephen G. Frost, 1919 (N3GH-6FR); Nenon Aleda Frost, 1944 (N3TK-LW1).
  538. - Washington County Death Registers: Alfred R. McMillan, 1966 (6FVF-R16H).
  539. - U.S. WWII Draft Registration Cards, 1942: Alfred Ross McMillan (QVJT-NK24; image 3:1:3QS7-99GD-71Y6).
  540. - California Marriages: G. W. Frost and Susanna Myres, 23 Aug 1888, Cloverdale (41H5-LD3Z).
  541. - California Great Registers: Stephen George Frost, Cloverdale, 1884 and 1888.
  542. - Iowa Marriages: Ervin W. Frost and Mary Dorcas, 16 Oct 1881, Tipton (XJBW-DNC); W. H. Yager and Marian E. Adams Wheeler, 30 May 1895, Mitchell (XJLM-454, KC48-NX8).
  543. - Iowa Death Records: Marian E. Yager, 1940 (68CT-RRSP). Iowa Old Age Assistance: Marian Emiline Yager (QGNM-QWZH).
  544. - San Francisco passenger arrivals: Lucile M. Holbrook, 1941 (WBX3-PWZM).
  545. - GenealogyBank obituary index: William McMillan, Tacoma, 15 Mar 1927 (Q5QR-3NFR); George Emmett McMillan, Seattle, 18 Feb 1936 (Q5QF-BKPC).
  546. - Find a Grave index entries: Lucille McMillan Holbrook; Alfred Ross McMillan; Florence Bell Frost McMillan; William (43882380) and Harriet (43882366) McMillan; Mary McMillin (Leipsig); Penuel Ann MacMillan (South Beaver Dam); Penuel McMillan Stewart; Lucy E. Bell Frost; Stephen G. Frost; George Frost (Heart Prairie).
  547. - Washington and Iowa county birth registers; Iowa delayed birth record of Dora Belle Frost (index).
  549. ### Other primary records and printed primary sources [D]
  551. - Nova Scotia marriage registration 1874, book 1803, p. 51, no. 79, Duncan McMillan and Mary Ann Cameron (read as image by a research assistant): archives.novascotia.ca/vital-statistics/marriage/?ID=39058.
  552. - Nova Scotia census of 1838, Dorchester Township, Sydney Co., RG 1 vol. 449 no. 177 (image read): archives.novascotia.ca/census/1838/returns/?ID=29306.
  553. - *Roster of Wisconsin Volunteers, War of the Rebellion*, vol. 2 (1886), 16th Infantry, Co. C, p. 11.
  554. - *Watertown Republican*, 20 Nov 1889, p. 5 (Chronicling America, sn85033295).
  555. - *Tacoma Times* (Chronicling America, sn88085187), page OCR: 2 Jan, 18 Feb, 24 Apr, 19 Aug 1909; 14 and 28 Dec 1910; 30 Mar 1911; 11 Apr 1912; 4 Dec 1914; 8 Jan, 23 and 31 Mar, 30 Apr 1915; 23 Mar, 10 and 29 July, 9 Sept 1916; 18 Jan, 26 May, 19 Sept, 2, 3 and 8 Oct, 28 Nov, 1, 3, 5, 18, 19 and 22 Dec 1917; 8 and 25 Jan, 13 Mar 1918; 24 May 1941; 24 Sept 1942.
  556. - *Spokane Press*, 14 Nov 1902, p. 1.
  557. - *Sacramento Daily Record-Union*, 28 Feb 1884 p. 3; 12 Sept 1885 p. 4; 29 Oct 1886 p. 2. *Los Angeles Daily Herald*, 28 Oct 1886, p. 1.
  558. - *Santa Cruz Daily Surf*, via the Santa Cruz Public Library local news index (index entries only): 26 Oct and 29 Dec 1886; 2 July, 27 July and 1 Sept 1887; 10 May 1889.
  559. - *San Francisco Business Directory* (1887), Cloverdale.
  560. - *Pharmaceutical Era* 45 (1912), p. 234. *Musical America*, 15 June 1912. *Talking Machine World*, 15 Jan 1925, p. 99.
  561. - Tacoma Public Library Northwest Room: Boland B10770 (1924), B13994 (1926), A-874 (c. 1926), B22017 (c. 1930); descriptions read, images not seen.
  562. - V. H. Paltsits, ed., *Minutes of the Executive Council of the Province of New York: Administration of Francis Lovelace*, vol. 1 (Albany, 1910), pp. 43, 51, 58, 72, 331-336. archive.org: minutesofexecuti01newyuoft.
  563. - *Oyster Bay Town Records*, vol. 1 (1916), pp. 36, 90-91. archive.org: oysterbaytownrec01coxj.
  564. - *Abstracts of Wills on File in the Surrogate's Office, City of New York*, vol. 2, NYHS Collections (1893), p. 224.
  565. - *New York Marriage Licenses previous to 1784* (Isaac Frost and Mary Cock).
  566. - *Census of Pensioners* (1841), p. 103.
  567. - Rand McNally *Bankers' Directory* (1891), Spokane Falls.
  569. ### Compiled works [C]
  571. - Josephine C. Frost, *The Frost Genealogy: Descendants of William Frost of Oyster Bay, New York* (Brooklyn, 1912), pp. x, 3-4, 16-23, 31-32, 54-56, 109-111, 191, 267, 352-355. archive.org: frostgenealogyde00fros. Read directly.
  572. - Josephine C. Frost, *Underhill Genealogy*, vol. 2 (1932), pp. 262-263. archive.org: underhillgenealo02fros.
  573. - *History and Genealogy of the Cock, Cocks, Cox Family* (1914), pp. 17, 26-29. archive.org: historygenealogy00cock.
  574. - J. J. Latting, "The Wright Family, of Oyster Bay," NYGBR 3 (1872): 35-45.
  575. - *History of Dodge County, Wisconsin* (Western Historical Co., 1880), p. 588. archive.org: historyofdodgeco00west.
  576. - Homer B. Hubbell, *Dodge County, Wisconsin, Past and Present* (1913), vol. 2, p. 405.
  577. - Rev. D. J. Rankin, *A History of the County of Antigonish, Nova Scotia* (1929), pp. 84-85 and about 324. archive.org: historyofcountyo0000rank (lending copy; read as snippets). In copyright; paraphrased.
  578. - Rev. George Patterson, *A History of the County of Pictou* (1877), pp. 226-227, 231.
  579. - David Dobson, *Directory of Scottish Settlers in North America 1625-1825*, vol. 7 (snippet only).
  580. - Lucille Campey, *After the Hector* (secondary, on the *Nora*).
  581. - Bev Hetzel, *Wisconsin Deaths at Shiloh* (typescript).
  582. - *History of Walworth County, Wisconsin* (Western Historical Co., 1882), pp. 454-456, 776-777, 941-942. archive.org: historyofwalwort00west.
  583. - A. C. Beckwith, *History of Walworth County, Wisconsin* (1912), vol. 1, p. 91 and Sugar Creek lists. archive.org: historyofwalwort01beck.
  584. - *History of Jones County, Iowa* (1879), p. 467. archive.org: historyofjonesco00west.
  585. - Edwin J. Kenyon, *Past and Present of Shelby County, Iowa* (1915), p. 239.
  586. - *History of Mitchell and Worth Counties, Iowa* (1884), p. 468.
  587. - Thomas Lewis, *Illustrated History of Sonoma County* (1889).
  588. - Jonathan Edwards, *An Illustrated History of Spokane County* (1900), industries section. archive.org: illustratedhisto00edwa.
  589. - N. W. Durham, *History of the City of Spokane and Spokane Country* (1912), vol. 2, p. 462. archive.org: historyofcityofs02indurh.
  590. - W. P. Bonney, *History of Pierce County, Washington* (1927), vol. III, p. 475.
  591. - Frederick Humphreys, *The Humphreys Family in America* (1883), pp. 913-915. archive.org: humphreysfamilyi02hump.
  592. - Charles Hammond, *History of Union, Conn.* (1893), pp. 292, 339-340. archive.org: historyofunionco01hamm.
  593. - Jean Fairchild Gilmore, *Early Fairchilds in America and Their Descendants* (1991), pp. 27, 79-81, 181-183 (archive.org: early-fairchilds-in-america), and *More Fairchilds in America* (additions), pp. 140, 142 (earlyfairchildsinamerica.wordpress.com). In copyright; paraphrased.
  594. - Olive Newell Woodworth, *East Kill Valley Genealogy* (1974) (snippets only).
  595. - Edward Mason, *History of Otter Tail County, Minnesota* (1916), vol. 2, pp. 79-80.
  596. - Hugo Lacher, "The Taverns and Stages of Early Wisconsin," *Proceedings of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin* for 1914 (1915), pp. 128, 142.
  597. - James S. Buck, *Pioneer History of Milwaukee*, vol. 3, p. 377.
  598. - IAGenWeb, Oakwood Cemetery, Plymouth, Cerro Gordo Co. transcription (2012).
  599. - SAR Patriot Research System, P-162550 (George P. Frost).
  600. - FamilySearch Family Tree (IDs in each section).
  602. ---
  604. ## Part Three: Research log
  606. **5 October 2026.**
  607. - FamilySearch Family Tree read through its API for Lucile (GH5P-ZTN) and eight generations of ancestors: the ancestry list, then facts, sources, notes and family members for the forty-odd nearest direct ancestors.
  608. - FamilySearch record indexes read for every census, marriage, death and draft record cited above; FamilySearch historical-records search used for Penuel McMillan, the McMillans of Calamus in 1850, Alfred McMillan in Tacoma in 1940, and Duncan McMillan's marriages.
  609. - The WWII draft card image was opened but could not be read (the image did not render while the browser pane was hidden).
  610. - Web research in five parallel threads: McMillan Bros. and Tacoma; Duncan McMillan and Lochaber; the nineteenth-century Frosts; the colonial Frosts of Oyster Bay; the Bell, Fairchild, Adams and Humphrey families. Sources read are listed in Part Two.
  612. **Searched without result**
  613. - Tacoma Public Library Northwest Room item pages A-874 and B13994 (blocked by a browser check); Hunt's *Tacoma* (1916) vols. 1-2 and Bonney (1927) for McMillan or Frost biographies; *Washington, West of the Cascades* (1917).
  614. - Pharmacy licenses or Board of Pharmacy lists for A. R. or E. E. McMillan; *Pacific Pharmacist*, *NARD Journal*, *Music Trade Review*, *Presto* (beyond the items cited).
  615. - *Tacoma Times* for the 1904 and 1927 weddings and the 1926-1927 deaths (the paper's online run has almost nothing for 1905-1908 and 1919-1937).
  616. - William McMillan in Texas (the FS Texas residence turned out to be an error) and in Park Rapids, Minnesota, 1880-1895.
  617. - North Lochaber Cemetery transcriptions; Leipsig Cemetery burial list; a Nova Scotia marriage bond for Duncan's 1839 marriage; a passenger list for the *Nora*.
  618. - Rankin's text for "Wisconsin," "Duncan McMillan," "Glen Albyn," "Kilmallie" and "Urquhart."
  619. - Spokane newspapers on Chronicling America (*Spokane Press*, all pages mentioning Frost; *Spokane Falls Review* 1883-1890) beyond the 1902 item; Spokane histories for a Frost banker; Shelby, Jones, Linn, Sonoma and Santa Cruz county histories for Frost or Fairchild biographies.
  620. - California papers on Chronicling America for Lucy's death (March 1887), W. H. Bell (1887-1888), Elizabeth Frost (May 1889) or the Frost-Myers wedding. The California Digital Newspaper Collection could not be searched from here (blocked).
  621. - Hinshaw's *Encyclopedia of American Quaker Genealogy* vol. 3 (restricted); Nine Partners and Purchase Monthly Meeting transcriptions for George Frost (1760); the *Tanner Genealogy* (1893) for Joshua Tanner and Diana Gifford.
  622. - Milwaukee and Walworth histories for John M. Bell; Iowa histories for Robert Adams; the reason for "Capt." John Bell's title.
  624. ---
  626. ## Part Four: Records to obtain next
  628. In rough order of value.
  630. 1. **Tacoma obituaries**: William McMillan (15 Mar 1927), Harriet (late July 1926), Florence (Jan 1957), Alfred (Nov 1966), George W. Frost (Oct 1925), in the *Tacoma News Tribune* and *Tacoma Ledger*. The Tacoma Public Library's obituary index (also on Ancestry as "Tacoma, Washington, U.S., Obituary Index, 1882-2015") gives dates and pages.
  631. 2. **Tacoma city directories** (Polk), 1904-1950: the McMillan Bros. stores year by year, the brothers' homes, and whether either is listed as a pharmacist or "Ph.G."; when the firm ended.
  632. 3. **Washington State Board of Pharmacy** registrations for A. R. and E. E. McMillan (Washington State Archives).
  633. 4. **State v. A. R. McMillan, 1917-1918**, Pierce County Superior Court criminal file (Washington State Archives, Puget Sound Regional Branch), for the testimony and the liquor invoices.
  634. 5. **The Wisconsin marriage certificate** of William McMillan and Harriet E. Adams, Columbia Co. no. 02652 (FS film 1275881 / DGS 007714201), to settle 1862 against 1865.
  635. 6. **Census images, 1910-1940**, for occupations, addresses and home values; the **1940 census** of Alfred and Florence (not found by name search) and the identity of "Alice," b. c. 1928.
  636. 7. **Alfred's WWII draft card** (both sides), for his employer in 1942: FS image 3:1:3QS7-99GD-71Y6.
  637. 8. **California newspapers** (California Digital Newspaper Collection: *Cloverdale Reveille*, *Healdsburg Tribune*, *Santa Cruz Surf* and *Sentinel*): the *Surf* articles indexed for 27 July 1887 ("Pistol accident," G. W. Frost) and 10 May 1889 (Elizabeth Frost's obituary); Lucy Frost's death notice, end of March 1887; W. H. Bell's death; the Frost-Myers wedding, Aug 1888.
  638. 9. **Spokane**: Spokesman-Review obituaries of Stephen G. Frost (May 1919); Spokane city directories 1889-1925 for G. W. and S. G. Frost.
  639. 10. **Dodge County, Wisconsin**: Duncan's probate (1889-1890) and deeds; Leipsig Cemetery and Beaver Dam burials; the 1877/78 Snyder, Van Vechten plat map (archive.org) for his Calamus farm; Mary Ann Cameron's death; Malcolm McMillan's compiled service record (16th Wisconsin, Co. C) at NARA.
  640. 11. **Nova Scotia**: Rankin's pages (borrow the archive.org copy); Malcolm McMillan's land grant at Lochaber (Crown Land Information Management Centre); Presbyterian (Free Church) records for Lochaber; the *Transactions of the Gaelic Society of Inverness* 53: 448 for William McMillan and Penuel MacDougall; the Urquhart (Inverness-shire) parish register for their children before 1818.
  641. 12. **Quaker records** at Swarthmore: Nine Partners, Creek, Coeymans and Rensselaerville monthly meetings for George Frost (1760) and George (1791), and Abigail Tanner's origins.
  642. 13. **Cattaraugus County, New York**: John M. Bell and William H. Bell before 1850.
  643. 14. **New York surrogate's records** for William Frost of Oyster Bay: the 1698 will that FG prints and the 1720 administration.
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  647. ## Archive candidates
  649. Documents, photographs and articles worth clipping. FamilySearch and library downloads are full resolution; links are given so the originals can be saved.
  651. - **Duncan McMillan's 1874 marriage register**, Nova Scotia: image archives.novascotia.ca/images/vital-statistics/marriages/1803/1803-00051.jpg (record page archives.novascotia.ca/vital-statistics/marriage/?ID=39058). Names his parents and gives his birth at Lochaber.
  652. - **1838 Nova Scotia census page** with Malcolm McMillan: archives.novascotia.ca/images/census/201413926.jpg.
  653. - **HDC (1880), p. 588**, Duncan's biography: archive.org/details/historyofdodgeco00west.
  654. - **Watertown Republican, 20 Nov 1889, p. 5**, Duncan's death: loc.gov/resource/sn85033295/1889-11-20/ed-1/?sp=5.
  655. - **Snyder, Van Vechten map of Dodge County (1877/78)**: archive.org/details/dr_map-of-dodge-county-state-of-wisconsin-copyright-1877-by-snyder-van-vec-00474038.
  656. - **Alfred and Florence's 1904 marriage record**, Spokane: FS image 3:1:33S7-9TMQ-SSY6.
  657. - **Tacoma Times** pages (loc.gov/resource/sn88085187/DATE/ed-1/?sp=PAGE): 14 Dec 1910 p. 3 (new-store opening ad); 23 Mar 1915 p. 8 (third store); 26 May 1917 p. 2 (phonographs); 2 Oct 1917 p. 5 (the raid); 3 Dec 1917 p. 1 (duck hunting); 19 Dec 1917 p. 7 (testimony); 22 Dec 1917 p. 2 (hung jury); 25 Jan 1918 p. 1 (trial dropped); 23 Mar 1916 p. 1 (Speedway).
  658. - **Talking Machine World, 15 Jan 1925, p. 99**, "Music Department Opened by Tacoma Drug House": archive.org/details/talkingmachinewo21bill.
  659. - **Pharmaceutical Era 45 (1912), p. 234**, the Kapowsin store: archive.org/details/pharmaceuticaler45newyuoft.
  660. - **Tacoma Public Library photographs** of the McMillan Bros. stores: A-874 and Boland B13994 (c. 1926, 11th and Broadway); Boland B10770 (1924, 9th and Broadway): northwestroom.tacomalibrary.org/index.php/boland-b10770; Boland B22017 (c. 1930). Order prints or scans from the Northwest Room.
  661. - **McMillan Bros. trade token**, "MCMILLAN BROS. / DRUGGISTS / 949 C ST. // Good For 6 1/4," described in *Washington State Trade Tokens* (1998); a specimen may turn up with dealers.
  662. - **Sacramento Daily Record-Union, 28 Feb 1884, p. 3** (the Cloverdale bank): loc.gov/resource/sn82014381/1884-02-28/ed-1/?sp=3; **12 Sept 1885, p. 4**; **29 Oct 1886, p. 2** (City Bank of Santa Cruz).
  663. - **Santa Cruz Daily Surf** articles (via the library index): history.santacruzpl.org/omeka/items/show/48461 (pistol accident, 1887) and /48460 (Elizabeth Frost's obituary, 1889).
  664. - **Durham (1912), vol. 2, p. 462**, the Yakima land company: archive.org/details/historyofcityofs02indurh.
  665. - **Spokane Press, 14 Nov 1902, p. 1** (the chickens): loc.gov/resource/sn88085947/1902-11-14/ed-1/?sp=1.
  666. - **The Frost Genealogy (1912), p. 267**, which prints Lucile's birth, and pp. 16-22 on the first two Williams: archive.org/details/frostgenealogyde00fros.
  667. - **The Lovelace nullity decree of 1670** (Paltsits, pp. 331-336): archive.org/details/minutesofexecuti01newyuoft.
  668. - **Oyster Bay Town Records, vol. 1, pp. 90-91**, the 1674 farm purchase in Indian corn: archive.org/details/oysterbaytownrec01coxj.
  669. - **Beckwith (1912), vol. 1, p. 91**, W. H. Bell as coroner: archive.org/details/historyofwalwort01beck.
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  673. ## FamilySearch corrections to consider
  675. - Malcolm McMillan (LY3C-8JC): detach John McMillan (LBGS-HHC) and Ann Kennedy (LZBF-5MT) as parents, and the chain above them (M1TX-D79, M1TB-C8Y, PH5N-4JG, LHJZ-QVG, G3TX-68J, G21C-D36).
  676. - Duncan McMillan (L6XR-DRD): add the 1874 Nova Scotia register, the 1889 *Watertown Republican* notice and the 1886 Maggie Heinig marriage as sources; add Mary Ann Cameron as second wife; note the birth-year conflict.
  677. - William McMillan (L1W8-GHV): remove the 1875 Scottish pauper death and the post-1818 Urquhart christenings; add Dobson's 1818 emigration.
  678. - William McMillan (LR2B-Q1Z): remove the 1900 "Ward, Texas" residence (the record is Tacoma).
  679. - Edward E. McMillan (GXYX-LXN): the records found call him Everett E.
  680. - William Hamilton Bell (KP4G-NDZ): detach John Bell (GXMG-BBK) and Sarah Harrington (L7B1-H94) as parents; add John M. Bell (b. c. 1804, N.Y.) from the 1880 census.
  681. - George William Frost (2Z38-5XC): change the occupation note from "Banker, Spokane Falls" to his California banking.
  682. - George Frost (KLJP-5ZQ): remove the Revolutionary military service and the pension ledger entry; correct "Coleman" to Coeymans; remove "Crum Elbow" as birthplace.
  683. - Isaac Frost (LH32-CY4): birth 3rd of 4th mo. 1717 (June), not 3 April.
  684. - Mary Cock (LH32-CBJ): remove the 1776 Norwich, England burial.
  685. - Hannah Prior (L8BK-MRY): remove the 1775 slave-owner entry (she died in 1771).
  686. - Hannah Enos (K6MW-83Z): mother is Abigail Keyes, not Abigail Chaffe.
  687. - Abigail Tanner (K4RS-3CG): the parents Joshua Tanner and Diana Gifford have no source.
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