[JMS] Millen's middle initial?

[Don Buska]

I just got done replying to an email from him I received yesterday.  I 
see John W4AWM thinks he might have heard it was "S".  I for one have 
never seen a middle initial referenced for James Millen.  Here is a bit 
I just wrote to John King.

"Regarding James Millen having a middle name and as a result the initial 
"L".  Well so far as I or any of the other people I've worked with who 
have studied James Millen it appears that he does not have a middle 
name.  I have copies of the original Millen Company financial documents 
from the late 40's and early 50's and he is always referred to as only 
James Millen.  In one of the Dun & Bradstreet Analytical Reports on the 
Millen Company they do indicate that both his Mother Anne S. Millen and 
a brother Robert S. Millen were both on the Board of Directors.  Thus 
since both their names appear with a middle initial and James Millen 
does not we have all concluded he never had one.  However, perhaps it 
was not a name he was proud of and formally chose not to use it."

This brings me to another of the Millen Mysteries.  Whatever became of 
his brother Robert?  The Dun & Bradstreet report indicates Robert was a 
surgeon in New York.  A Google search on Robert S. Millen produces 
nothing useful.  Anyone want to tackle that one?  I know that when the 
Millen Estate was liquidated there was no Millen family.  So perhaps 
Robert died early on and never was married just like James.  So many 
questions so few answers.

Regarding the "JLM" on the coils.  I wonder if anyone has a personnel 
list from National in that time period.  Perhaps there is a person who 
worked there with those initials.  Then again who knows if an outside 
source, perhaps government, might have done that alignment.

73

Don N9OO

JAMES HANLON wrote:
> Do any of you folks happen to know what Jim Millen's middle initial was? 
> I'm corresponding with John King, k5pwg, who has acquired HRO s/n D35, one 
> of the very first batch of HRO's to be built and sold.  It originally 
> belonged to Irv Weston, an FCC Engineer, and then passed on to another FCC 
> Engineer who sold it to John.  His coil set has a notation "Aligned 3/3/43" 
> and initialed "JLM."  Could this have been done by Jim Millen?
> 
> Jim Hanlon, W8KGI 
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