Catheorine McLean emigrated to Canada from Scotland at age 19. She met and married John McMillan, with whom she had two children: Daniel Angus McMillan (my grandfather) and Catherine "Katie" McMillan (later Chisholm.)

After five years of marriage, and with two young children, John went on a three day drinking binge, and died. CAtherine moved back home with her parents (Victoria, Ontaio, CA.)

A year later, Catherine married Richard Kinnee, a widower with four young children. They had a child together the following year, then moved to Butte, Montana, where they had three more children over the next nine years. At this point, Catherine was again widowed.

Catherine moved her family to Cripple Creek, CO, where she opened a hotel ("Kinnee House".) Two stepdaugters and one daughter worked in the dining room with her. She later moved on to Colorado Springs, then Idaho.