FAMILY  FOLIAGE.

Lovisa Adelia Ullyot  (1874 ~ 1976)

 

6.2.3.3. Third child of Isaac Ullyot and Mary Cameron, Lovisa Adelia Ullyot, was born October 6, 1874, in Oshawa, E. Whitby Twp., Ontario Co., Ontario.

  She married Duncan McLean, son of Alexander McLean and Christena Dougal, June 23, 1897, in Langdon, Cavalier Co., North Dakota and had two children:

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• (6.2.3.3.1)  Peter Alvin  (1898 ~ 1986)  

• (6.2.3.3.2)  Mary Donalda  (1901 ~ 1993)  

 

  Lovisa A. Ullyott McLean died January 25, 1976, aged 101 years in Isle, Minnesota and Duncan McLean died November 21, 1943, aged 90 years in Fargo, North Dakota and are interred at Harvey Center Cemetery.

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Lovisa A. Ullyot McLean

October 6, 1874 ~ January 25, 1976

Mrs. Duncan (Lovisa A.) McLean, 101, early-day Langdon and Hannah resident, died Sunday, January 25, 1976, at the Miller Nursing Home at Isle, Minn. She had resided at Isle since 1963.

  Funeral services and interment will be at Langdon at a later date.

  The former Lovisa A. Ullyot was born October 6, 1874, at Oshawa, Ont. Her parents were Isaac and Mary Ullyot, both now deceased. The family came to Cavalier County in 1883 and her parents homesteaded in Harvey Township.

  She and Duncan McLean were married June 23, 1897, at Langdon.    Mr. McLean was engaged in farming and the implement business at Langdon, and at Hannah after they moved to that then new town in 1898. He was postmaster at Hannah from 1923 until he retired in 1937. He died November 21, 1943. His grave is in Harvey Cemetery. Mrs. McLean continued to live at Hannah until she moved to Isle, Minn., in 1963.

  Mrs. McLean was honored at an open house at an Isle restaurant and a party at the Miller Nursing home on the occasion of her 100th birthday in 1974, when both of her children and numerous relatives and friends, including people from Hannah and Langdon, attended.

  Two children survive. They are Peter A. McLean of Wauhkon, Minn., and Mesa, Ariz., and Mrs. Julius E. (Mary Donalda) Siemsen, Chula Vista, Calif. Two grandchildren, 11 great grandchildren and two great great grandchildren also survive. Cavalier County Republican, Feb. 4, 1976.

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Duncan McLean

July 5, 1861 ~ November 21, 1943

Cavalier County lost one of its oldest pioneers and Hannah lost one of its earliest business men Sunday, November 21, 1943, when Duncan McLean passed away that afternoon at a Fargo hospital.

  The former Hannah postmaster had been in poor health for about the last six years and his condition had become steadily weaker since March. He was brought to a Langdon hospital November 7 and a week later was taken to Fargo.  His wife was with him at Langdon and Fargo.

  Funeral services were held Wednesday afternoon at the Langdon Presbyterian church with Rev. T. B. Lindsay and Rev. Duncan Matheson officiating. Mrs. M. W. Fairbanks and Mary Cannon sang the hymns, with accompaniment by Mrs. A. R. Balfour. The ladies were all from Hannah.

  Pall-bearers who carried the remains were M. J. Peterson, James Moffatt, Robert McLean, Albert Hewitt and John Carpenter of Hannah and Russell Ullyot of Langdon.

  Many people from Hannah and Langdon were joined by pioneer friends of the deceased in paying their final respects to the memory of the pioneer. Mrs. Peter A. McLean and son, daughter-in-law and grandson of the deceased, arrived Monday from Minneapolis to attend the funeral. Mr. Peter McLean, son of the deceased is an army engineer now stationed in Northwestern Canada. The widow, who survives, also has a daughter, Mrs. Donalda M. Siemsen, who was unable to come from San Diego, Calif., for the funeral.

  Euphemia, John and James McLean, all of Spokane, Wash., are a sister and brother who also survive, besides two grandchildren.

  Duncan McLean was the eighth of 14 children of Alexander and Christena Dougal McLean. Only three of the children now survive. 

  Duncan was born July 5, 1861, at Hensall, in Huron County of Ontario. When he was 19 years of age he left with his brother Peter for Fargo, in Dakota Territory. He worked a few months on a farm near Wheatland and in July came to Pembina to join his father and sister Margaret. The McLeans farmed on land at Akra. In the winter of 1881-82 he worked in a lumber camp in Keewatin territory of Canada and in the Spring of 1882 he came to Winnipeg and later to West Lynn, which is now Emerson.

  In July 1882 Mr. McLean “squatted” on land at the present site of Langdon and later on a quarter section northeast of the town. At that time there were no buildings west of Olga. In the winter of 1882 he worked at a railroad tie camp 120 miles west of Winnipeg. The next summer he helped his brother farm and in 1884 planted his first crop on his own quarter. He raised three crops there, which in those years had to be marketed in Bathgate and later at Neche. During the winter of 1886-87 he worked at another lumber camp west of Winnipeg, where paving blocks were being hewn for that Manitoba city.

  That Great Northern built its line into Langdon in 1887 and Mr. McLean resumed farming his land in 1888. In 1893 he movd to Langdon and operated a livery barn that winter. The next spring he entered the farm machinery business as a partner of the late Michael Kelly. He sold out to his partner the next year and went to work for D. H. McMillan, also in the implement business. In 1896 he went to work for James McPhail in a similar capacity.

  He was married at Langdon June 23, 1897, to Lovisa A. Ullyot, who survived him. The couple moved to Hannah in 1898, that town having become established the previous fall when the railroad was extended to that point. There he represented the Langdon Implement company until that fall when he took over the management of the D. H. McMillan implement company which had just started there. He stayed with that company until 1902, when he became president and general manager of the Farmers Implement company, which had bought out the Hannah interests of the McPhail company of Langdon. The new company operated until 1923, when it suspended business. Mr. McLean was appointed postmaster at Hannah in 1923 and served in that capacity until 1937. His health having been poorly he retired from business at that time.

  Mr. McLean was a lifelong adherent of the Presbyterian faith. He was made a Master Mason in Lebanon Lodge at Langdon in 1892 and demitted his membership to Hannah when Ionic lodge was chartered there. He had also been a member of the Langdon Scottish Rite bodies since the early years. Cavalier County Republican, Nov. 25, 1943.

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