Biographical Sketch of Charles M. McCrae, Phelps County, Missouri

>From "History of Laclede, Camden, Dallas, Webster, Wright, Texas, 
Pulaski, Phelps and Dent Counties, Missouri" The Goodspeed Publishing
Company, 1889.
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Charles M. McCrae, member of the firm of Herbert & McCrae, editors and
publishers of the Rolla Herald, is a native of the Isle of Cape Breton,
born in 1853.  His parents, Frank and Isabella (Campbell) McCrae, were
born in Scotland, and went to Nova Scotia when single, and were there
married.  In 1856 they moved to Canada West, and in 1870 moved to Fort
Scott, Kansas.  Frank McCrae was a sea captain, and had charge of a 
merchant ship up to the time he moved to the United States.  His ship
plied between Halifax and British India.  He was accidentally killed in
1878, by being struck on the head while assisting in moving a large 
rock.  His wife, Isabella (Campbell) McCrae, died from the effects of a
fall on the ice in 1888.  She was twice married, her first husband be-
ing John McKenzie, by whom she had four children.  She was also the 
mother of four children by her second husband, Charles M. being the
youngest.  He was seventeen years of age when his parents moved to the
United States, and never attended school after he was eleven years of
age.  When twelve years of age he entered the printing office and work-
ed on the Woodstock Canada Sentinel, then under the management of John
McWhinnie & Son; served an apprenticeship of four years, and his case
mate was W. S. Barnes, the famous fast type-setter, now of Philadelphia.
Mr. McCrae then worked two weeks on the Detroit Free Press, and in 1870
went to Fort Scott, Kas., where he became employed on the Fort Scott
Monitor, remaining seven months, and then went to St. Louis, and was in
a job office.  In the fall of 1871 he came to Rolla, Mo., and began
working on the Rolla Express, and soon took the foremanship of the 
Rolla Herald, under Van Deren & Herbert.  In 1879 he became one-half
owner of that paper, and since then the firm has been Herbert & McCrae.
The Herald has the largest circulation of any paper in Phelps county,
and is very ably edited.  Its politics are purely Democratic, and it is
a newsy local paper.  September 27, 1882, Mr. McCrae married Miss 
Edwarda Rogers, who was born in Lynchburg, Va., in 1862.  They have two
children: Charles Edward and Rowe Francis.  Mr. McCrae is a member of
the A. O. U. W., Select Knights, K. of H., and Mrs. McCrae is a member
of the Baptist church.

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