He was buried next to his first wife, Mary at the Woodlawn Park Cemetery in Miami. After Mary died in September 1922, he married his second wife, Mabel Stearns, in 1924. Munroe helped in establishing what is today called Ransom Everglades School. It is the first tennis court in Miami-Dade county. Munroe builds a tennis court on his property. Bradley was later killed by plume hunters while on duty in the Everglades. While in Florida, Munroe became a noted member of the Florida Audubon Society, and recommended a family friend Guy Bradley to the position as game warden in southern Florida. Mary accompanied him on several cruises on the Allapata, a thirty-five foot sharpie-ketch sailboat designed by Ralph Middleton Munroe. The couple settled in Coconut Grove, Miami, Florida in 1886. He married Mary Barr, daughter of Amelia E. Munroe was the Wheelmen's first Commander. During this time he helped found the League of American Wheelmen with Charles E. From 1879 to 1884, he was the commodore of New York Canoe club. Three years later he became the first editor of Harper's Young People magazine he resigned in 1881. In 1876, Kirk Munroe was hired as a reporter for the New York Sun. It has survived long enough for the copyright to expire and the book to enter the public domain. He publicly dropped "Charles" from his name in 1883. In pirate waters This is a digital copy of a book that was preserved for generations on library shelves before it was carefully scanned by Google as part of a project to make the world’s books discoverable online. His youth was spent on the frontier, after which his family moved to Cambridge, Massachusetts where he attended school until he was sixteen. His works include: Wakulla: A Story of Adventure in Florida (1886), The Flamingo Feather (1887), Derrick Sterling: A Story of the Mines (1888), Cab and Caboose: The Story of a Railroad Boy (1892), Raftmates: A Story of the Great River (1893), Campmates: A Story of the Plains (1893), The Fur Seal's Tooth (1894), At War with Pontiac or, The Totem of the Bear (1895), The Copper Princess: A Story of Lake Superior Mines (1898), "Forward, March" A Tale of the Spanish-American War (1899) and Under the Great Bear (1900).īorn Charles Kirk Munroe in a log cab near Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin, Munroe was the son of Charles and Susan (Hall) Munroe. Kirk Munroe was an American writer and conservationist. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.Īs a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.
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