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1. Biographical Sketch, via https://archive.org/stream/twentiethcent..., 27. Dezember 2019

   DUNCAN McRAE, a farmer and at one
   time county superintendent of schools in Tar-
   rant county, making his home in Fort Worth,
   is a native of Tennessee, his birth having oc-
   curred in Maury county, on the 22d of Sep-
   tember, 1845. His paternal grandfather, Alex-
   ander McRae, was born in Scotland, and on
   
   
   
   coming to America settled in North Carolina,
   where occurred the birth of his son, Duncan
   McRae, who in his boyhood days accompanied
   his parents on their removal to Tennessee, the
   family home being established in Maury
   county, where Duncan McRae continued to re-
   side throughout his remaining days. He be-
   came a substantial agriculturist of that locality.
   His wife was born in that county and was a
   sister of R. R. Raimey, who came to Texas
   from Tennessee in 1836 to assist the struggling
   revolutionists in the achievement of indepen-
   dence from Mexico. He was with General Fan-
   nin's command and was killed in the battle
   of Goliad.
   
   Duncan McRae was reared to farm life and
   acquired his early education in the public
   schools of Maury county, while later he pur-
   sued his studies at Moore's Institute, in
   Mooresville, Tennessee. He was a young man
   of eighteen years when in 1864 he responded
   to the call of the Confederacy, enlisting in
   Company F, First Tennessee Cavalry. With
   that command he went to Georgia, joining Gen-
   eral Joe Johnston's army and was in all of the
   fighting that constituted the siege and battle of
   Atlanta, continuing with Johnston's army un-
   til its surrender in North Carolina. He was
   also in the hotly contested engagement of New
   Hope Church, which preceded the battle of At-
   lanta.
   
   When the war was ended Mr. McRae re-
   turned to his home in Maury county, Tennes-
   see, where he began farming and later he was
   likewise identified with merchandising, carry-
   ing on both pursuits until the latter part of
   1876, when, determining to establish his home
   in Texas, where he believed he might enjoy
   better business advantages, he came to Tarrant
   county on the 1st of January, 1877. Here he
   has since resided. Fie began farming at John-
   son's Station, four miles south of Arlington,
   and later he located at Handley, while in
   1897 he established his home in Polytechnic
   Heights, Fort Worth, where he has since lived.
   Not long after his arrival in Tarrant county
   he began teaching, and continued in the pro-
   fession for several years in connection with
   the management of his agricultural interests.
   He first taught at Johnson's Station and later
   at other places in Tarrant county — Handley,
   Mansfield, Smithfield and Keller, and in 1894
   he was elected county superintendent of
   schools, which position he filled in a most cap-
   able and satisfactory manner for six years, be-
   ing elected for three consecutive terms and
   then retired from the office as he had entered
   
   
   
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   HISTORY OF NORTH AND WEST TEXAS.
   
   
   
   it — with the confidence and good will of all
   concerned. Since that time he has not been
   actively connected with the teacher's profes-
   sion save that he takes a most earnest interest
   in educational affairs in Tarrant county, as-
   sisting in county institutes and in other ways
   lending Ids influence to maintain a high stand-
   ard of the schools, and promote the intellectual
   development of the locality. He is the owner
   of one of the finest farms in Tarrant county,
   comprising more than four hundred acres lying
   along the interurban railroad within three
   miles of Arlington. This tract is under a high
   state of cultivation and is well equipped with
   modern improvements, indicating the careful
   supervision and practical and progressive
   methods of the owner.
   
   Air. McRae was married in Williamson
   county, Tennessee, September 7, 1869, to Miss
   Fannie Crowe, a daughter of Thomas A.
   Crowe, Esq., of Williamson county, Ten-
   nessee. She died June 14. 1903. sur-
   vived by a daughter and three sons, namely :
   Willie, the wife of J. W. Smith; Duncan
   Crowe ; Edward and Walter Thomas. Mr.
   McRae is a member of the Methodist Epis-
   copal church, South, and is interested in the
   material, intellectual and moral development
   of the community, co-operating along these
   lines for general improvement and upbuilding.

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• Geburtstag 22. Juni 1807
• Sterbedatum 29. November 1868

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• Auch geboren am 22. Juni
• Auch verstorben am 29. November

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