[JMS] JAMES MILLEN; Information from the Social Security Death Index - AND OTHER TIDBITS

[Don Buska]

Hi Watt and all JMS Members,

Your birth date jives with the previous data that Joe found.  So born 11 
July 1904 and died on 8 June 1987 would make him 82 years old or one 
month short of his 83rd birthday.  That agrees with the obit.  So I 
think we now have the important dates!  Congrats!  That means our 100th 
Anniversary Celebration W1HRX operation in 2001 was three years early - 
oh well..... Hey we're only a couple years away from the 70th 
Anniversary of the companies founding so it may be time to start 
thinking of a new celebration.

So now it remains to be seen if we can find out additional family ties 
that may come from his brothers and their families which may be 
traceable today.  Thus offering us the potential of discovering more 
about the early years of Jim's life.  I know some things about my uncles 
early years via stories my dad used to tell me.  So if there are any 
children of Robert Millen's family out there they may have stories to 
tell us about their uncle James.  Who knows this could lead to a short 
article for the JMS website on "James Millen the Early Years".  FYI, 
James Millen doesn't have  a middle name.  His brother is Robert S. 
Millen and along with his mother are listed as officers of The James 
Millen Company in the Dun & Bradstreet reports from the late 40's and 
early 50's.  Albeit they were also listed as "Not Being Active in the 
Business"!  Most likely this fact relates more toward company ownership 
if James had met with an early demise.

Here is a tidbit from 1950 that you may find interesting.  James Millen 
was paid a salary of $25,000 in 1950.  That's equivalent to a little 
over $200,000 in todays dollars.  His top management and engineering 
people earned about 1/5th that amount.  You can get some idea of who his 
top people were by reading many of the personal writings from prior 
employees on our JMS webpage.  I'm sure many are aware of "Miss" Bearse 
as she pretty much ran the day-to-day business operations at Millen.  It 
was interesting to see that she actually made just about as much money 
as the chief executives or engineers by the fact she often received 
Christmas bonuses that essentially doubled her base pay each year.  
Perhaps this was an early means that James had to correct the pay 
differentials between male and female pay rates we still read about today.

73

Don N9OO

Sherrill Watkins wrote:
> Friends of the James Millen Society: I did a search using the New England
> Ancestors.org and the Social Security Death Index information source and
> found the following:
>
> James Millen
> Born: 11 July, 1904
> Died: Jun 1987
> Residence: North Reading, Middlesex, MA 01864
> SSN: Issued; MA 
>
> If he was living in Massachusetts in 1936 when the Social Security Program
> was implemented, that would explain his SSN being issued in Massachussetts.
> (If anyone needs his SSN for research purposes to help the Society, please
> let me know.)I have not seen his obituary, but if it lists his address as
> that shown above, this may be the James Millen we are looking for? If so, his
> date of birth is July 11, 1904! 
>
> -73-watt 
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