Milton A. McRae

Milton A. McRae
Born	July 13, 1858 Detroit, Michigan, United States
Died	1930

Colonel Milton Alexander McRae (July 13, 1858 – 1930) was an American newspaper publisher who co-founded the Scripps-McRae League of Newspapers (now Scripps-Howard) and United Press International.

The son of Helen and Duncan Van McRae, he was born in Detroit, Michigan in the United States. McRae attended the Detroit Public Schools and attended but did not graduate from Detroit Medical College.^[1]

In 1883, while serving as advertising manager of the Cincinnati Post, McRae met thirty-year-old E. W. Scripps, who had taken over as managing editor. The two began a business relationship that would last for many years.

In 1887, Scripps made McRae the managing director of the St. Louis Chronicle, a paper Scripps had purchased in 1880. In 1889, Scripps brought McRae on as a partner, and in 1894, together with Scripps and his half-brother George, McRae founded the Scripps-McRae League of Newspapers.

In 1907, the Scripps-McRae League of newspapers combined three regional press associations into the United Press Association.

McRae was President of the Detroit Board of Commerce from 1911 to 1912. He became the third National president of the Boy Scouts of America upon the death of James J. Storrow in 1926.

Works

• Forty years in newspaperdom; the autobiography of a newspaper man, New York, Brentano's, 1924.

See also

• E. W. Scripps Company

Boy Scouts of America
Preceded by James J. Storrow	National president March-May 1926	Succeeded by Walter W. Head

References

• AEJMC Archives -- September 1997, week 4 (#55) at list.msu.edu
• Manuscript Collection at www.library.ohiou.edu
• "Silver Buffalo". Time Magazine. 1926-05-10. http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,729190,00.html. Retrieved 2008-08-09. 
• Chamber History: Business Leaders, 1903-2003 at www.detroitchamber.com
• Silver Buffalo Award at www.dacbsa.org

1. ^ Smith, William Ernest and Ophia Delilah Smith (1964). History of Southwestern Ohio, the Miami Valleys. Lewis Historical Pub. Co. via Google Books snippet view. pp. 19. http://books.google.com/books?id=vn88AAAAIAAJ. Retrieved 2008-10-30. 

Persondata
Name	Milton A. McRae
Alternative names	Milton McRae, Milton Alexander McRae
Short description	co-founder of Scripps-McRae League of Newspapers, later Scripps-Howard
Date of birth	July 13, 1858
Place of birth	Detroit, Michigan, United States
Date of death	1930
Place of death