This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: McClain Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/3kz.2ACIB/954.2 Message Board Post: Philip Bailey McClain was in Marion County in 1850, not sure where he was in 1840. He was father to my great-great-grandfather William Jackson McClain who crossed the plains to Oregon in 1853.