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Identity area
Type of entity
Person
Authorized form of name
McCrae, D. L. (David Lamont), 1850-1925
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Description area
Dates of existence
1850-1925
History
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.