James Smith Munroe

1824 - 1910  (86 years)

• Name	James Smith Munroe  [1, 2]
  Born	6 Jun 1824	Lexington, Middlesex Co., Massachusetts, USA   [1]
  Gender	Male
  Died	10 Dec 1910
  Person ID	I8694	Munro
  Last Modified	9 Mar 2011

  
  

  Father	Jonas Munroe,   b. 11 Jun 1778, Lexington, Middlesex Co., Massachusetts, USA ,   d. 2 Jul 1860, Somerville, Middlesex Co., Massachusetts, USA  (Age 82 years)
  Mother	Abigail Cook Smith,   b. 29 Jun 1792,   d. 4 Apr 1861, Lexington, Middlesex Co., Massachusetts, USA  (Age 68 years)
  Married	17 Mar 1814  [1]
  Family ID	F3261	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	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]
  Children	+ 1. William Robert Munroe,   b. 23 Mar 1855, Lexington, Middlesex Co., Massachusetts, USA ,   d. 6 Sep 1889, Lexington, Middlesex Co., Massachusetts, USA  (Age 34 years) + 2. John Cummings Munroe, M.D.,   b. 26 Mar 1858, Lexington, Middlesex Co., Massachusetts, USA ,   d. 6 Dec 1910  (Age 52 years) + 3. James Phinney Munroe,   b. 3 Jun 1862, Lexington, Middlesex Co., Massachusetts, USA ,   d. Yes, date unknown
  Last Modified	20 Jan 2009
  Family ID	F9372	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  James spent his entire life in the immediate neighborhood of his birthplace, owning and cultivating an extensive estate known as Munroe Meadows. At one time he was a member of the firm of Sewall and Munroe, hardware dealers in Dock Square, Boston, Massachusetts, and for the firm he undertook the management of a small paper mill, located on Vine Brook at Bedford, Massachusetts. From this experience, and after the mill burned, he started a larger plant at South Lawrence, Massachusetts, which developed into the Munroe Felt and Paper Company and of which he was the president for many years. He was a genial, courteous man, proud of Lexington, interested in improving and beautifying it, and a delightful entertainer of friends and visitors. By his will, James bequeathed to the Lexington historical Society, on behalf of his brother William and himself, that part of his real estate known as "Munroe Tavern" and a parcel of land surrounding it, to be kept forever as a token of Colonial and Revolutionary Lexington. He was a trustee of the Lexington Savings Bank. He married the daughter of Elias and Catherine (Bartlett) Phinney. ********** «i»The Monroe Tavern. -- Lexington Historical Society Will Open It to the Public. - From the Boston Transcript. Pilgrims to historic Lexington are to have a new point of interest in that beautiful old town after Monday, May 14 «/i»[1911]«i», for on that date the famous Munroe Tavern bebomes a historical museum. the tavern has been closed to the public since 1856 but it is now to be open all through the summer and probably at intervals during the winter. Under the will of James SMith Munroe, who died last December, the property was left to the Lexington Historical Society.«/i» ("The Munro Tavern" - newspaper article from an unknown newspaper from 1911) ********** References: (1) Clan Munro library - "History and Genealogy of the Lexington, Massachusetts Munroes", 2nd edition, by R. S. Munroe, (1986) - 13-34-54 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). [S792] Clan Munro files - Stivers, Wendy, Wendy Stivers, "The Monroe Tavern" - a newspaper article from an unknown Boston area newspaper - 1911 (Reliability: 3).