Over 13 years of research, 8,500 names and 2,500 photos. O.K. I got carried away . . . what can I say?

• McQueen, Clink, Lyons, Neely, Boutwell, Bable etc. (1732 KB)
  This tree contains over 8,500 people including My 8th cousin Madonna, and my 10th cousins Celine Dion and Camilla Parker-Bowles. It also includes my great-uncle the Jesuit priest, Michael DeLisle Lyons, who built the first commercial radio station in the US, called WWJ and supplied beryllium for the triggering mechanisms of our nuclear weapons from 1944 to 1974.

• Richard Lean and Margaret Crawford (220 KB)
  Richard Lang Lean and Margaret Crawford, pioneer settlers of Thedford, Ontario
• Eliza Jane Kearns (48 KB)
  Eliza Jane Kearns, mother of Verna Pearl (Neely) Clink
• Clyde Delbert McQueen Sr. (40 KB)
  Clyde Delbert McQueen Sr.
• Jesuits Priests of Patna, India (abt. 1930) (314 KB)
  Father Mike is sitting to the right of Bishop Bernard J. Sullivan. Father Brennan is standing, second from the left. When Gandhi died priests and ministers from several religions were asked to perform a eulogy. Father Brennan represented the Catholic church and performed a eulogy at Gandhi's funeral.
• Father Michael DeLisle Lyons, former Jesuit (104 KB)
  Father Michael DeLisle Lyons
• Congressman DeLisle's House in Delray, Michigan (87 KB)
  Congressman DeLisle and family infront of their house in Delray (now Detroit, Michigan). Old man with beard is Peter Bienvenu DeLisle Sr. (congressman's father, who was President of Springwells, Michigan)
• Catherine Lean and Reverend James Settle Clink (16 KB)
  Catherine Ann "Kate" Lean and Reverend James Settle Clink
• William H. McQueen and his son Austin (595 KB)
  William H. McQueen and his son Austin William
• James Francis McQueen Sr. (33 KB)
  James Francis McQueen Sr. (my father)
• Michael Patrick Lyons and Rita (McQueen) McCloy (12 KB)
  Michael Patrick Lyons and Rita Helen (McQueen) McCloy
• Stephen Henry Clink and Elizabeth "Betsy" Settle (46 KB)
  Stephen Henry Clink and Elizabeth "Betsy" Settle, pioneer settlers of Thedford, Ontario
• Harvey Boutwell (14 KB)
  Harvey Boutwell (father of Lydia Ann Margaret Boutwell)
• Edwin James Neely and Family (88 KB)
  Standing (L->R): Len, Maude, Ed, Anna, John, Bea, Ort and Peg. Seated (L->R): Lizzie, Nate, Eliza, Edwin, Merle and Verna.
• Lean Women (60 KB)
  Standing (L->R): Catherine Ann & Rebecca; Sitting (L->R): Margaret Alisha, Sara & Amelia Jane.
• James Bable (59 KB)
  James Bable one time member of the 168th Ohio Volunteer Infantry, which accompanied General Sherman in his march across the South
• Michigan Congressman Peter Bienvenu DeLisle (67 KB)
  Peter Bienvenu DeLisle, state rep, state liquor commissioner and judge.

• WWJ, a Jesuit and the Bomb (24 KB)
  This is the story of my great-uncle, Father Michael DeLisle Lyons of Detroit, Michigan and how he was licensed and built the first commercial radio station in the world, "8MK" (now called WWJ. He became a Jesuit missionary in India for nearly 20 years, assisted in India's struggle for independence, where was often in contact with Mohandas K. Gandhi (a.k.a. Mahatma Gandhi) and India's first prime minister, Jawaharlal Nehru. Father Mike fell in love with a nun (Sister Agnes Shah) and became the natural father of two daughters (Esther and Violet), resigned from the Jesuits, became a key supplier of Beryllium (used in making triggers for nuclear weapons)from 1945 to 1974, died in Arvada, Colorado of chronic beryllium lung disease. Be fore his death in Arvada, he also assisted in drafting the first nuclear proliferation agreements, was the President of the Chamber of Commerce, owned the Beryl Ores Company, and returned to the priesthood.

Jeffrey Allan McQueen
336 Longford
Rochester Hills, Michigan 48309
United States
(248) 375-9808
mcqueen327@aol.com

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