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Colonel

Colonel is a military rank of a commissioned officer, with corresponding ranks existing in almost every country in the world. It is also used in some police forces and other paramilitary rank structures....
 Milton Alexander McRae (13 July 1858 – 1930) was an American
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 newspaper
Newspaper

A newspaper is a publication containing news, information and advertising, usually printed on low-cost paper called newsprint. General-interest newspapers often feature articles on Politics, crime, business, art/entertainment, society and sports....
 publisher who co-founded the Scripps-McRae League of Newspapers (now Scripps-Howard) and United Press International
United Press International

United Press International is a news agency headquartered in the United States with roots dating back to 1907. Once a mainstay in the newswire service along with Associated Press and Reuters, it began to decline as afternoon newspapers, its chief client category, began to fail with the rising popularity of television news....
.

The son of Helen and Duncan Van McRae, he was born in Detroit
Detroit, Michigan

Detroit is the largest city in the U.S. state of Michigan and the county seat of Wayne County, Michigan. Detroit is a major port city on the Detroit River, in the Midwestern United States of the United States....
, Michigan
Michigan

Michigan is a Midwestern United States U.S. state of the United States of America. It was named after Lake Michigan, whose name is a French adaptation of the Anishinaabe language term mishigama, meaning "large water" or "large lake"....
 in the United States
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
. McRae attended the Detroit Public Schools
Detroit Public Schools

Detroit Public Schools is a school district that covers all of the city of Detroit, Michigan, United States. The student population of the Detroit Public Schools is 94,054 ....
 and attended but did not graduate from Detroit Medical College.

In 1883, while serving as advertising manager of the Cincinnati Post, McRae met thirty year old E. W. Scripps
E. W. Scripps

Edward Willis Scripps , was an United States newspaper publisher and founder of E. W. Scripps Company, a diversified media conglomerate, and United Press news service....
 who had taken over as managing editor.






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Colonel
Colonel

Colonel is a military rank of a commissioned officer, with corresponding ranks existing in almost every country in the world. It is also used in some police forces and other paramilitary rank structures....
 Milton Alexander McRae (13 July 1858 – 1930) was an American
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 newspaper
Newspaper

A newspaper is a publication containing news, information and advertising, usually printed on low-cost paper called newsprint. General-interest newspapers often feature articles on Politics, crime, business, art/entertainment, society and sports....
 publisher who co-founded the Scripps-McRae League of Newspapers (now Scripps-Howard) and United Press International
United Press International

United Press International is a news agency headquartered in the United States with roots dating back to 1907. Once a mainstay in the newswire service along with Associated Press and Reuters, it began to decline as afternoon newspapers, its chief client category, began to fail with the rising popularity of television news....
.

The son of Helen and Duncan Van McRae, he was born in Detroit
Detroit, Michigan

Detroit is the largest city in the U.S. state of Michigan and the county seat of Wayne County, Michigan. Detroit is a major port city on the Detroit River, in the Midwestern United States of the United States....
, Michigan
Michigan

Michigan is a Midwestern United States U.S. state of the United States of America. It was named after Lake Michigan, whose name is a French adaptation of the Anishinaabe language term mishigama, meaning "large water" or "large lake"....
 in the United States
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
. McRae attended the Detroit Public Schools
Detroit Public Schools

Detroit Public Schools is a school district that covers all of the city of Detroit, Michigan, United States. The student population of the Detroit Public Schools is 94,054 ....
 and attended but did not graduate from Detroit Medical College.

In 1883, while serving as advertising manager of the Cincinnati Post, McRae met thirty year old E. W. Scripps
E. W. Scripps

Edward Willis Scripps , was an United States newspaper publisher and founder of E. W. Scripps Company, a diversified media conglomerate, and United Press news service....
 who had taken over as managing editor. The two began a business relationship that would last for many years.

In 1887, Scripps made Milton McRae became 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, Milton A. 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.
United Press International

United Press International is a news agency headquartered in the United States with roots dating back to 1907. Once a mainstay in the newswire service along with Associated Press and Reuters, it began to decline as afternoon newspapers, its chief client category, began to fail with the rising popularity of television news....


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

James Jackson Storrow II was a Boston-area investment banker instrumental in forming General Motors and its third president . He was a partner with Henry Lee Higginson, founder of the Boston Symphony Orchestra....
 in 1926.

Works

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


See also

  • E. W. Scripps Company
    E. W. Scripps Company

    The E.W. Scripps Company is an United States media conglomerate founded by Edward W. Scripps on November 2, 1878. The company is headquartered inside the Scripps Center in Cincinnati, Ohio, USA....