[JMS] Re: JAMES MILLEN RESEARCH

[Joe Rubin]

Don , thank you for your nice reply. BTW, I mailed you the supporting copies 
Monday. In answer to your question of how far I want to go...research is a 
disease you can never get rid of. All the way. By coincidence, my family is 
buried in North Reading MA. I contacted a photographer up there and he 
wanted $100 bucks to travel a couple of miles and take photos of the head 
stones. Any of our member live near NYC?  Being a prominent family, maybe 
they inscribed the date of birth. Tell you what. I'll call the cemetery and 
report what they say. Even if we had the year, it would he the folks in 
Virginia to locate his birth certificate. Sometimes the route is slow and 
painful. Many times the 'official documents' are in error. Since he was 
affiliated with the bank in Malden, surely they must have records (if not in 
the dumpster). I'll keep trying.  73  Joe  W4CBJ



>From: Don Buska <dbuska at wi.rr.com>
>To: Joe Rubin <srto2007 at hotmail.com>, James_Millen_Society at mailman.qth.net
>Subject: Re: JAMES MILLEN RESEARCH
>Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2007 14:16:49 -0500
>
>Wonderful work Joe!  Considering the birth being in the early part of last 
>century I wonder if his brother John might not have lived to adulthood.  
>Since his brother Robert is mentioned in the Dunn and Bradstreet reports 
>from the late 1940's.  I would expect that Roberts immediate family, if he 
>ever married and had children, might still be around.  I do believe that 
>Robert had his practice in NYC.  Although siblings don't often come up in 
>topics relating to ones business life it is understandable that James 
>Millen never made mentioned of them.  However, Merrill W. Bancroft told me 
>that there didn't appear to be any relatives involved when his estate was 
>being sold off.  However, perhaps behind the scenes there was and they just 
>hired outside people to do the disposal.  James Millen's burial site also 
>seems to support a return to a early Millen family location (see below).
>
>Watt makes a good suggestion with the death certificate.  If we could also 
>find the obit on Annie Millen we would also know the status of family 
>members at that point in time.  When she died I have no idea though.  My 
>feeling is if we wanted to ever find more details on his early years our 
>best bet might be through his brother Robert as there is still a chance 
>that there is a further family tree there.  Hopefully the kind of family 
>who saved pictures and historical documents about the early family years of 
>the Millens.
>
>I'm open for ideas and suggestions.  How far do we want to go with this?  I 
>do know that ever year that goes by we lose more and more information and 
>information sources.  A side note, we just had an article in our local 
>Kenosha News (Kenosha, Wisconsin) that told about a local historian who 
>just obtained some diaries that belonged to a young girl who lived in our 
>downtown all her life.  The diaries were from the 1890's and this girl 
>(lady) lived until 1957.  The really astonishing part of this whole story 
>was the diaries were found  in a dumpster next to an old building that was 
>being renovated a few months ago.  To the construction crew it was just old 
>junk.  To an historian the pages were filled with personal accounts of many 
>city events and disasters that took place during the six years worth of 
>time these documents covered.  Well I digress.  Back to the topic at hand.
>
>Oh BTW, it was interesting that your find has him getting a Masters in 
>"Electronics" from Stevens.  That large diploma that Merrill W. Bancroft 
>has is a "Mechanical Engineering" degree from Stevens.  Like many colleges 
>they did not have degrees in Electrical Engineering yet.  As we all know 
>Millen was the brains behind the mechanical stuff as well has his natural 
>interests in the electronic side of radio.
>
>So I'm all ears on how far we want to take this.  Having a photo on the 
>grave stone would be good for the archives.  I'm not sure it would provide 
>exact dates, i.e. month and day, of his birth though.  Often you don't see 
>such detail on older grave stones.  Just the year.  Albeit this could also 
>provide details on all the other Millens buried there!  Kew Gardens, NY 
>takes us back to his NYC (Long Island) roots.  So my guess is this may be 
>where all the family members ended up and could provide much needed dates 
>and family relations that could lead us forward in our research.
>
>Again great work Joe.  We are truly getting more than we bargained for and 
>are indebted to you for all your work so far.
>
>73
>
>Don N9OO
>
>
>
>Joe Rubin wrote:
>>Don, Finally received the information from Malden.  It was delayed because 
>>of a ZIp code error (to me).  Here are the results:
>>Obituary, Malden Evening News, Page C4,  Tuesday, June 9, 1987. It states 
>>that he died on Monday, so his DOD would be June 8, 1987. He was 82 years 
>>old so his birth year would be circa 1905. Passed away in the Hunt 
>>Memorial Hospital, North Reading MA.
>>Born in Norfolk, VA.  For birth certificate  information:
>>Father: John W. Millen
>>Mother: Annie Sibbald Millen
>>also: Brothers: Dr. Robert Millen and John Millen.
>>Received Masters degree in Electronics from Stevens Institute of 
>>Technology in 1926.
>>Buried in Maple Grove Cemetery, 83-15 Kew Gardens Road, Post Office Box 
>>150086, Kew Gardens, NY 11415-0086. 718-544-3600. I will call the cemetery 
>>and find out if the will read the stone or have someone take a picture of 
>>it. better yet, take a picture of it for date of birth.
>>Please advise if you you like for me to try to obtain a birth certificate.
>>There is a bunch of other information about Mr. Millen and I will place 
>>the copies in the mail to you today along with the verification data.
>>If anyone has any supporting or conflicting information,  Please advise.. 
>>73  Joe  W4CBJ
>>
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