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McClain, Samuel C., 1889-
Sam McClain was born in San Angelo, Texas. He came to Alaska in the late 1940s and worked as an architect for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Alaska District Office, in Anchorage from 1949 until his retirement in 1979. He married Christine Ferrari Reeder in Anchorage in 1950. McClain was an artist, specializing in pen and ink drawing and water colors. He studied under watercolor artist Rex Brandt and Robert E. Wood in California in the late 1960s. He was best known for his drawings and water colors of Russian Orthodox churches and other historical buildings in Alaska. McClain contributed drawings and designed the cover for Fern Wallace's book, The Flame of the Candle: a Pictorial History of Russian Orthodox Churches in Alaska, which was published in 1974. He also taught watercolor art classes and performed volunteer work for the Anchorage School District and other local organizations. Sam McClain died in Anchorage in 1994.
From the description of Papers, 1942-1994. (UAA/APU Consortium Library). WorldCat record id: 58917206
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McLain, Samuel.
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Samuel and Charles McLain migrated west in the 1850s to find their fortunes prospecting for gold. Their father, James McLain, was a Pennsylvanian who had settled with his wife in Mountsville, Ohio, where they raised a family of six sons and three daughters. In 1852, Sam, then 24 years old, left the family homestead for Oregon, and settled in Philomath, where he lived for the rest of his life. Considered to be an early pioneer, he helped to blaze the trails that opened up...
