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George was educated in Auburn, Chauncey Hall, in Boston, and Massachusetts Institute of Technology where he graduated with the highest honors the college has to offer, Tau Beta Phi, in 1927. He later earned an advanced degree there.

He went to England to study at Oxford, but returned to a position with Boston Woven Hose and Rubber Co., where he became head of the efficiency department.

After another trip to Europe, to observe processes of manufacture in rubber factories, in 1934, he became assistant to the receiver of the National Shoe and Leather Bank of Auburn.

He died of a sudden illness. His only child was born after his death.

Ref: Clan Munro files - Yard, F. L. Dixon

Compiled and edited by Allen Alger, Genealogist, Clan Munro Association, USA

Buried:
George was buried at the Mt. Auburn Cemetery in Auburn, Maine.

George married Katherine Margaret Way on 18 Jan 1936. Katherine was born on 19 Mar 1910; and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Compiled and edited by Allen Alger, Genealogist, Clan Munro Association, USA

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Horace was associated with the family enterprises in the shoe and lumber busnisses. He was a director of the Groveton Paper Company, and the Manufacturers National Bank. He was its president for twelve years. He was an avid outdoorsman and was president of the West Auburn Cemetery Association. His estate amounted to more than 2.5 million dollars.

One of his projects was the construction of a four-masted schooner in Bangor, Maine. It consumed over a million feet of lumber in its construction and was the largest ever launched on the Penobscot River. The "Horace E. Munroe" turned out to be a bad luck ship from the very start. When she was christened with a bottle of Poland water, she promptly slid from the launching site, across the river, and punched a hole in a store on the shore.

She carried coal for a year and then embarked on her first voyage overseas. Three days out of Norfolk, the second mate was swept over the side and never found. The schooner continued on its voyage now with a crew of thirteen. She put in to Fayal, Azores for repairs, and while she was at anchor there, she was struck by a German bark which had parted its chains.

Returning from Lisbon, Portugal, she was struck in the night by a steamship and sunk 600 miles from the coast. All thirteen of the crew were rescued by the British ship "Palma" and returned safely to Maine.

Ref: Clan Munro files - Yard, F. L. Dixon

Compiled and edited by Allen Alger, Genealogist, Clan Munro Association, USA

Buried:
Horace was buried at the Mt. Auburn Cemetery in Auburn, Maine.

Horace married Florence May Railey on 12 Aug 1903. Florence was born est 1877; died in 1929; was buried in Auburn, Androscoggin Co., Maine, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Compiled and edited by Allen Alger, Genealogist, Clan Munro Association, USA

Birth:
Florence's birth date is given as Aug 1903, but this is obviously not correct.

Buried:
Florence was buried at the Mt. Auburn Cemetery in Auburn, Maine.

Notes:

Noble was a well known business man in Auburn, Maine. He was a partner with his brother-in-law, Cyrus S. Packard, and later his brother, James, in the firm of Packard & Munroe (shoe manufacturers). Noble and James founded several companies including the Minot Shoe Company, and the C. S. Packard and Co. The firms they founded were very successful and operated over a great number of years.

His first wife was a descendant of Governor Bradford of Plymouth. He had three children by his first wife and six by the second.

Ref: Clan Munro files - Munro, Ronald Geyer
Yard, Prof. F. L. Dixon

Compiled and edited by Allen Alger, Genealogist, Clan Munro Association, USA

Buried:
The Hartley reference says Noble was buried at the Splinterville Cemetery. At least one other reference says he was buried at the Mt. Auburn Cemetery. Both cemeteries are in Auburn, Maine.

Noble married Maria Wishart Washburn on 25 Sep 1856. Maria was born about 1834 in , , Maine, USA; and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]