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Letter, 3 July 1888
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Rev. Dr. David Lamont McCrae was born on November 18, 1850, in Balmaghie, Kirkcudbrightshire, Scotland.
He was a Presbyterian clergyman. In 1853, his family immigrated to Canada. He served in churches in Osnabruck, Stormont County (1879), and Cobourg, Ontario. In 1891, he served in Hochelaga, Quebec, and later in Jamestown, New York.
In 1879, he married Mary Williamson Little (1854–1939), a woman’s suffrage activist and leader in the Women’s Missionary Society. He died on February 13, 1925, in London, Ontario.
Letter from D.L. Mccrae to John William Dawson, written from Cobourg, Ont.