Talk:Raymond S. McLain

Requested corrections
Moving the following entries from the article to this talk page. -- JHunterJ 13:30, 14 April 2007 (UTC)

His son, Robert D. McLain, would like the following information corrected in this Wikipedia entry: Your web site has some errors about my father, the late Lieutenant General Raymond Stallings McLain:
 * 1) He was born April 4, 1890; not in October.
 * 2) He died in Walter Reed General Hospital, Washington, D. C.; not in Oklahoma City.
 * 3) He led the 90th Infantry Division across France; not Europe.
 * 4) The "C" in comptroller of the Army should be a capital letter; the word is part of the official title of that office.
 * 5) He was a member of the National Security Training Commission; not the National Security Commission(there was no such commission). —The preceding comment was added to the article space by 160.149.102.108 (talk • contribs).
 * 6) He was also a member of the National Police Department —The preceding comment was added to the article space by 207.2.100.97 (talk • contribs).

Requested corrections (moved from the WikiProjectBiography talk page
There are many mistakes in the article on the bio of my father:
 * 1) His awarded medals show an Occupation of Germany (WWI); he was not given this medal (Only RA personnel who served in Germany were awarded this medal).
 * 2) He was not the "first" Comptroller of the Army. (There were two major generals who who held the title of Comptroller before General McLain.)
 * 3) How he attained a commission as 2LT is incorrect.  When he was promoted to 1LT and Captain are wrong and he did not serve on the Mexican Border with the 36th Division and did not command MG Company when he did serve on the border.
 * 4) There are more mistakes, but I haven't the time to point them out.  You need to check your sources.  I have spent years of researching him and will publish his bio in the next couple of years.

Suggest removal of a comment that could precipitate violation of Wikipedia policies
I suggest deletion of the end of paragraph 4 under requested corrections -"Lastly, if I were you I'd forget any input from grandsons and granddaughters from his first marriage--General McLain wrote their parents out of his will." This can only precipitate conflicts harmful to Wikipedia. — Preceding unsigned comment added by RSM3 (talk • contribs) 18:18, 27 March 2016 (UTC)

In the interest of truth and accuracy of content, I am the sole surviving child of Lt. Gen. Raymond S. McLain and his first wife, Norma Beall McLain nee Leeman.

I am looking forward to Robert Duncan McLain's book about our father. Having observed the efforts of my sister, Betty M. Belvin, to obtain material for her book "Ray McLain and the National Guard", I'm sure much effort is being exerted for this present endeavor. The family takes pride in Dad's war and business efforts.

Norma Leeman (Guazzo) Messmer, nee McLain April 2, 2016

In addition to the above information, I would like to add this. I am the Granddaughter of Raymond Stallings McLain through his second child Dorothy "M" Vernon McLain. I have done genealogical research on our family for years, and much of it is now used on Ancestry. When Rootsweb was sold to Ancestry.com, within the agreement was kept the right to our websites, as we provided the foundation on which it was built. Although this has not been updated since the sale to Ancestry, the pages herein referenced address information on the McLain side of the family, and have been easily found by search engines for over 15 years. I don't believe a comment like Robert's should stand here, for the consideration of others, without proofs.

Christen Rosamilia nee Rogers added April 4, 2016

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