====== McRae, Alexander J. ====== (19 Dec. 1859-28 July 1937), businessman, political figure. (Alex J. McRae) Born in Ontario. Not perhaps a Glengarrian, but was of GC-area connections. He went to Superior, Wisc., in 1885, then in 1889 he was elected mayor of Superior, being the first mayor after the village of Superior was incorporated as a city. The election was for a single one-year term, and he was not a candidate for re-election. In 1890 he sent the Alexandria newspaper a copy of //The Eye of the North-West// (208 pp.), a book about Superior. (//Glengarrian// 7 March 1890) At this time he was described as having many relatives on the Front, i.e., the St. Lawrence shoreline of GC or GC-Stormont County. During the last 40 years of his life, McRae was “employed as city salesman of the Stone-Ordean-Wells company, wholesale grocers.” His wife’s Christian name was Elizabeth. He “died suddenly” in St. Mary’s Hospital, Superior, in a relapse after an operation two weeks earlier. (three children) At the time of his death he had three brothers and a sister living in Graceville, Minn., where he is said himself to have lived before going to Superior. He was also in his earlier years postmaster of West Superior. ---- “First Mayor of Superior Is Dead at 77,” //Superior Evening Telegram//, 28 July 1937 (with portrait) (QF) * State of Wisconsin, death certificate * //The Eye of the North-West//: has his portrait, picture of house, little else on him [<6>]