Résumé

Seaman, 2nd Class, US Navy, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, 12/10/1917-01/26/1918, Mass

Chief Quartermaster, US Navy, Training Station, Great Lakes, IL, 01/26/1918-03/25/1918. McClellan was promoted to officer rank at the time of his discharge on 03/25/1918. (See Ancestry.com, Source Information Ancestry.com. New York, U.S., Abstracts of World War I Military Service, 1917-1919 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2013, accessed 09/07/2023.)

Principal, Douglas H. McClellan, Architect, Los Angeles, CA, c. 1942.

Relocation

Douglas Hull McClellan was born in Saint Louis, MO. As per the 1900 US Census, Douglas was the youngest of four children of Joseph and Fanny McClellan. The McClellans lived at 523 South Spring Avenue in Saint Louis, and were prosperous enough to afford a servant, Mary Harding (born 02/1876 in TN). (See Ancestry.com, Source Citation Year: 1900; Census Place: St Louis Ward 25, St Louis (Independent City), Missouri; Roll: 900; Page: 9; Enumeration District: 0379, accessed 09/07/2023.)

McClellan served in the US Navy in Cambridge, MA, and at Great Lakes, IL, during 1917 and 1918.

In 1940, McClellan lived on his own in an apartment building at 251 South Mariposa Street in Los Angeles, CA. (See Ancestry.com, Source Citation Year: 1940; Census Place: Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California; Roll: m-t0627-00401; Page: 12A; Enumeration District: 60-296, accessed 09/07/2023.)

McClellan was buried at the Hollywood Forever Cemetery in Hollywood, Los Angeles, CA.

Parents

His father Joseph Wheeler McClellan (born 01/1842 in MA-d. 1904) worked as a grocery salesman in 1900. (See Ancestry.com, Source Citation Year: 1900; Census Place: St Louis Ward 25, St Louis (Independent City), Missouri; Roll: 900; Page: 9; Enumeration District: 0379, accessed 09/07/2023.) His mother was Fanny Massie (born 02/28/1858 in MO-d. 10/22/1944 in Los Angeles County, CA), who married Joseph in 1881.

Spouse

He wed Florence Buckingham (born 12/24/1906 in NJ-d. 05/19/1956 in Alameda County, CA).

Children

Florence and Douglas had a son, Douglas Buckingham McClellan (born 10/01/1930 in Pasadena, CA-d. 07/20/2008 in San Francisco, CA)

Biographical Notes

SSN: 563301097.