He made friends easily when in town and had earned a reputation for being level headed, so he decided to try a career in law enforcement. From 1898 to 1900, Kenny McLean earned a living as a miner in the mountains above the town.Īt some point Kenny became friends with Yorkshire native Fred Pheasey, with whom he ran a local saloon. This current-day celebrity ski and film town sits in a beautiful box canyon in the San Juan Mountains of Colorado’s southwest. Eventually, Kenny landed in Telluride, Colorado. He took out a $1,000 life insurance policy, named his sister as beneficiary, and got on a westbound train. Kenny, like so many others, decided to seek his fortune out west. He didn’t last long in the confines of the city. As a young man, Kenny left the family farm to join his older sister Christine in Boston, where he would have a wider choice of occupations. Kenneth Angus McLean was born in 1873 in a farmhouse on Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, the youngest of nine children. These stories sometimes lack a key, but here is one that, thanks to a loving sister, retains its general outline. There are many stories that reside in the papers and photographs our forebears set aside to keep.
Alice Pheasey and Kenneth McLean on their wedding day.
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