Career
He had served as president of the Knights of Labor Assembly 135, a coal miners" union. He and John McBride co-founded the United Mine Workers of America in 1890, and Rae served as the labor union"s first president Rae led national coal miners" strikes in 1890 and 1891, both of which the union lost.
He had been a miner since boyhood, and an admirer of the trades union principle before he emigrated to America.
He was a preacher, when the Knights of Labor began to organize, he rose quickly, and soon became prominent in the circles of organization. (3). By 1900, he removed to Bowling Green Ohio, there he lived with wife Helen, and 15-year-old daughter margaret.
He had listed his occupation as a Physician. John B Rae Died on May 24, 1922, 114 Liberty Street, Bowling Green Ohio and is buried in the Oak Grove Cemetery (5).
