Noble Nichols Munroe

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

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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 Mary Elizabeth Bradford about 1850. Mary was born on 26 Jun 1829; died on 24 Jul 1855; was buried in West Auburn, Androscoggin Co., Maine, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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

Notes:

After working for a time with his family in the shoe company, Charles bought out a large retail shoe business in Kansas City, with John N. Packard. The firm prospered, but Charles returned to Maine to join with Henry M. Packard, Heman Packard and Willard Linscott, as successors to the James Munroe and Co. firm. Again he was successful, but the business was discontinued due to its distance from a railroad connection, and he went to Kearney, Nebraska.

After some time there, he established a firm in Athol, Massachusetts, known as Munroe, Ellis and Smollidge Co. Upon retiring from the shoe business, he bacame interested in hotels in Old Orchard, Rumford Falls and elsewhere. When his health failed, he returned to Auburn, Maine.

He and his second wife, Fannie Venner, had one child who died at birth.

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

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

Family/Spouse: Hattie C.. Hattie was born about 1852; and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Fannie Venner. Fannie was born on 13 Aug 1854; died on 13 Oct 1942; was buried in Auburn, Androscoggin Co., Maine, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

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Buried:
Mary was buried at the Splinterville Cemetery in West Auburn, Maine.

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Died:
Elizabeth died "Wednesday AM".

Buried:
Elizabeth was buried at the Splinterville Cemetery in West Auburn, Maine.

Elizabeth married Kimball T. Jordan in 1874. Kimball was born in 1855; died in 1927. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

After receiving his education at Hebron Academy and Gray's Business College in Portland, Maine, Willard went to Kansas and engaged in the cattle business with great success. He returned to Auburn when his father became ill.

He joined the Munroe, Packard and Linscott firm, and later founded the Auburn Shoe Manufacturers Association and became its first president.

While still in the shoe business, he became interested in paper manufacturing, and in 1897 became treasurer of the Odell Manufacturing Co. of Groveton. Two years later he became treasurer of the Brompton Pulp and Paper Co. of Quebec. During the same period of time, he reorganized the shoe company with his brother, Horace, under the name of the National Shoemakers.

In 1907, the Brompton company purchased the Claremont, Wyman, Flint and Odell companies and became one of the largest paper manufacturing firms in Canada. In 1919, after further purchases, he became president of the Groveton, Odell, Brompton complex, which he operated until his death in 1938.

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

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

Willard married Ella May Perry in 1880. Ella was born on 1 Jan 1859; died on 19 Aug 1940; was buried in Auburn, Androscoggin Co., Maine, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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

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Buried:
Rosa was buried at the Splinterville Cemetery in West Auburn, Maine.

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Buried:
Frank was buried at the Splinterville Cemetery in West Auburn, Maine.

Notes:

Ref: Clan Munro files - Munro, Ronald Geyer
Yard, Prof. F. L. Dixon
"The Monroe Book" by Dr. Joan S. Guilford - Alexander of Bridgewater - 6

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

Family/Spouse: Joseph Frederick Shepherd. Joseph was born est 1869 in Rockland, Knox Co., Maine, USA; was buried in Rockland, Knox Co., Maine, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Florence married John William Hartley on 3 Jan 1900. John was born in 1868 in Frankfort, , Pennsylvania, USA; died on 28 Aug 1908; was buried in Auburn, Androscoggin Co., Maine, USA. [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

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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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Buried:
Hazel was buried at the Splinterville Cemetery in West Auburn, Maine.

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

Mabel married Emory Healey Purinton on 28 Oct 1903. Emory was born on 23 Sep 1878 in Bowdoin, , Maine, USA; died in 1930 in Baltimore, Baltimore (city), Maryland, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

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

Family/Spouse: George Lane. George was born on 15 Nov 1880; died on 10 Apr 1963. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

As a young man, Willard enlisted in the Naval Reserve in 1918, and served aboard the U.S.S. Southerly.

Willard was assistant treasurer and secretary of the Munroe Shoe Company until 1938, when he joined the Groveton Paper Company as sales manager for his uncle Horace.

He was a Mason and achieved the 32nd degree as a member of the Tranquil Lodge, the Lewiston Commandery, Knights Templar, the Kora Temple of the Mystic Shrine.

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

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

Willard married Carmen Harris on 31 Oct 1922. Carmen was born on 16 Aug 1895 in Boston, Suffolk Co., Massachusetts, USA; died on 13 Jun 1974; was buried in Auburn, Androscoggin Co., Maine, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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

Noble married Ethel Marion Fiske on 9 Sep 1926. Ethel was born on 2 Jan 1901 in Malden, Middlesex Co., Massachusetts, USA; died on 19 Aug 1999; was buried in Auburn, Androscoggin Co., Maine, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

He lives in Darien, Connecticut and has considerable information about the Noble Munro [5294] line.

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

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

Birth:
Estimate: This birth date is an estimate based on the birth dates of nearest relatives or contemporaries, or based on other clues such as christening date, marriage date, birth order, etc.

Family/Spouse: Unknown. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

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

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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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Buried:
Gwendolen was buried at the Evergreen Cemetery on Stevens Avenue in Portland, Maine.

Family/Spouse: Ralph A. Getchell. Ralph was born on 23 Nov 1898; died on 8 Jun 1972; was buried in Portland, Cumberland Co., Maine, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Family/Spouse: Living. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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