MacRae family.

Duncan MacRae Sr. (1891-1980) was born in Fayetteville, N.C., on 7 March 1891, the ninth and youngest child of James Cameron and Frances Broadfoot Hinsdale MacRae. He earned a bachelors degree at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill in 1909 and a doctorate in physical chemistry from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1917. On 23 June 1920 in Norfolk, Va., MacRae married Rebecca Devereux Kyle, also a native of Fayetteville and a graduate of Saint Mary's School in Raleigh, N.C. They had two children, Duncan Jr., born 30 September 1921 in Glen Ridge, N.J., and Anne Wingate (later Bouton), born 31 March 1925.

After working briefly for the Westinghouse Lamp Company, Duncan MacRae Sr. became a captain in the development department of the Chemical Warfare Service of the United States Army during World War I. He returned to Westinghouse at the close of the war, working as a research chemist at its Bloomingfield, N.J., site. While at Westinghouse, MacRae devised patented improvements in incandescent electric lamps and radio tubes. In 1925, he left to manage the research laboratory of Guggenheim Brothers in Yonkers, N.Y.

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