(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