James Phinney Munroe

1862 - Yes, date unknown

• Name	James Phinney Munroe  [1]
  Born	3 Jun 1862	Lexington, Middlesex Co., Massachusetts, USA   [1]
  Gender	Male
  Died	Yes, date unknown
  Person ID	I26966	Munro
  Last Modified	27 May 2001

  
  

  Father	James Smith Munroe,   b. 6 Jun 1824, Lexington, Middlesex Co., Massachusetts, USA ,   d. 10 Dec 1910  (Age 86 years)
  Mother	Alice Bridge Phinney,   b. 9 Nov 1826, Lexington, Middlesex Co., Massachusetts, USA ,   d. 7 Aug 1888, Lexington, Middlesex Co., Massachusetts, USA  (Age 61 years)
  Married	23 May 1854  [1]
  Family ID	F9372	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Katherine Winhrop Langdon,   b. Abt 1864,   d. Yes, date unknown
  Married	2 Jul 1885  [1]
  Children	+ 1. Katharine Langdon Munroe,   b. 24 Jun 1891, Lexington, Middlesex Co., Massachusetts, USA ,   d. 27 Jun 1956, Boston, Suffolk Co., Massachusetts, USA  (Age 65 years)   2. Alice Langdon Munroe,   b. Est 1893
  Last Modified	20 Jan 2009
  Family ID	F9371	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  James was a graduate of Massachusetts Institute of Technology, S.B. 1882 and from 1882 to 1889 was secretary of the M.I.T. faculty. He was a life member of the American Unitarian Association. He held memberships in the following: Twentieth Century Club, American Association for the Advancement of Science, Boston City Club, American Economic Association, National Society for Promotion of Industrial Education, National Educational Association, Massachusetts Reform Club, Technology Club and he served as president of the Lexington Historical Society. In 1907, he was apointed a member of the Massachusetts Commission for the blind and served as chairman. He was a trustee of the George O. Smith Fund and served two terms on the school committee. In 1900, James wrote an eighty page book called, "A Sketch of the Munro Clan", also of William Munro who, deported from Scotland, settled in Lexington, Massachusetts, and some of his posterity. He also assisted Alexander Mackenzie in Mr. Mackenzie's book, "History of the Munros of Fowlis": his assistance to Mackenzie's book was supplying him with information about the Lexington, Massachusetts Munroes. Mackenzie's book deals in the most part with the Munros of Scotland. In the preface of James Phinney's "Sketch of the Munro Clan," he says, "Learning that this (Mackenzie's) History of the Munros was in preparation, I entered into correspondence with Mr. Mackenzie, and was so far fortunate as to induce him to include in his genealogy as many of the American branches of the Munro Clan as the limited time before publication would permit us to follow up." Mackenzie's book was published in 1898 at Inverness, Scotland. References: (1) "History and Genealogy of the Lexington, Mass. Munroes" by R. S. Munroe, 2nd ed. - Florence, Massachusetts (1986) - 13-31-54-3 - p. 343-344 Compiled and edited by Allen Alger, Genealogist, Clan Munro Association, USA

  
  

• Sources

  [S247] History of the Munros of Fowlis, Alexander Mackenzie, M.J.L., (Published in Inverness, Scotland by A & W Mackenzie (1898)), p. 576 (Reliability: 3).