Horace Edward Munroe

1875 - 1957  (82 years)

• Name	Horace Edward Munroe  [1, 2]
  Born	10 Jan 1875	West Auburn, Androscoggin Co., Maine, USA   [1]
  Gender	Male
  Died	31 Aug 1957	Auburn, Androscoggin Co., Maine, USA   [1]
  Buried	Auburn, Androscoggin Co., Maine, USA   [1]
  	Horace was buried at the Mt. Auburn Cemetery in Auburn, Maine.
  Person ID	I11042	Munro
  Last Modified	17 Oct 2011

  
  

  Father	Noble Nichols Munroe,   b. 26 Dec 1820, Minot, Androscoggin Co., Maine, USA ,   d. 26 Aug 1886, Auburn, Androscoggin Co., Maine, USA  (Age 65 years)
  Mother	Maria Wishart Washburn,   b. Abt 1834, , , Maine, USA ,   d. Yes, date unknown
  Married	25 Sep 1856
  Family ID	F3972	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Florence May Railey,   b. Est 1877,   d. 1929  (Age ~ 52 years)
  Married	12 Aug 1903  [2]
  Children	+ 1. George Edward Munroe,   b. 22 Jun 1905, Auburn, Androscoggin Co., Maine, USA ,   d. 23 Nov 1937  (Age 32 years)
  Last Modified	17 Oct 2011
  Family ID	F3975	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  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

  
  

• Sources

  [S49] Clan Munro files - Hartley, John F., John F. Hartley, Cemeteries - p. 23 (Reliability: 3). [S49] Clan Munro files - Hartley, John F., John F. Hartley, Cemeteries - p. 36 (Reliability: 3).