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Re: Maiden name of Ethel A McKean

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Posted By: Tom Myles (email)
Date: 9/5/2009 at 11:18:37

In Response To: Maiden name of Ethel A McKean (Joanne Wilken)

According to two US Passport applications viewed at ancestry.com:

August 17, 1917: James W McKean, a physician residing in Hartford Michigan, born March 10, 1860 at Scotch Grove Iowa, the son of Hugh C McKean,(born in Pennsylvania) is applying for a passport for himself and his wife, Laura Bell (nee Wilson) McKean to do missionary work visiting leper asylums in Japan, Korea, China, Hong Kong, and Siam.

July 13, 1889: James W McKean, a physician/surgeon, residing in Omaha, Nebraska, born March 10, 1860, Scotch Grove, Iowa is applying for a passport for his wife (unnnamed) and minor child, Ethel A McKean, born June 30, 1883, at Anamosa, Iowa.

From a google search:

Dr James W McKean was born in Iowa, USA, on 10th March, 1860. Both his parents died before he was seven and he also lost a brother in infancy. He was educated at Lenox College in Hopkinton, Iowa and studied medicine at Bellevue Hospital Medical College, graduating in 1882. He spent seven years in private practice in Nebraska. Although he married, his first wife died and he remarried and left America with his new wife Laura Bell McKean (nee Wilson) on 11 September, 1889. 6 weeks later they arrived in Chiang Mai, a Thai city which was then home to around 20,000 people. Here the McKeans joined an American medical missionary who had arrived in the region earlier, Rev McGilvary and his Siamese assistant Chantah Indravude. Together they ran a dispensary, which was later to become known as the “ American Hospital”. Dr McKean became superintendent of the Hospital in 1901.

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