MUNROE
MUXROE
son of Bennett and Lucy (Abel) Munro and of
James and Hannah (Waldron) Batt, and a descen-
dant maternally from Mary Chilton, and from
Richard Warren, both of whom came over in the
Mayfloiver. He attended the Bristol, R.I., high
school and the Walnut Hill school at Geneva,
N.Y., graduated from Brown university, A.B.,
1870, A. M., 1873, was a graduate student at Frei-
burg university, Germany, and at the University
of Heidelberg, Germany. He was president of De
Veaux college. Suspension Bridge, N.Y., 1881-89;
in 1891 was elected associate professor of history
and director of the university extension in Brown
university, and was subsequently made professor
of European histor3^ He became a member of
the American Philological association in 1879;
the American Historical association in 1898;
corresponding member of the Rhode Island His-
torical society in 1883, and was elected secretary
of the Rhode Island Historical society in 1900.
He married, Dec. 28, 1875, Susan Wilkinson,
daughter of the Rev. Daniel Le Baron and Re-
becca (Wilkinson) Goodwin. He is the author
of: History of Bristol, Rhode Island (1880); and
Picturesque Rhode Island (1881).
MUNROE, Charles Edward, chemist, was born in Cambridge, Mass., May 24, 1849; son of Enoch and Emeline Elizabeth (Russell) Munroe; grandson of William and Lucy (Frost) Munroe, and of Edward and Elizabeth (Abbot) Russell, and a descendant of William Munroe,
born in Scotland in 1625, settled in Lex- ington, Mass., in 1657. He was graduated at Harvard, S.B.. summa cum laude, 1871, and after serving as as- sistant to Professor Wolcott Gibbs, was senior assistant in chemistry at Harv- ard, 1871-74. He con- ducted the summer school of instruc- tion in chemistry at Cambridge, Mass.. in 1872-74, and lectured on chemistry at the Boston Dental college, 1873-74. He was professor of chemistry at the U.S. Naval academy, Annapolis, Md., 1874-86, lectured in St. John's college, Annapolis, 1883-84, and was chemist to the torpedo corps at the U.S. naval torpedo station and war college, Newport, R.I., 1886-92. He was Lowell Institute lecturer, Boston, Mass., 1890; professor of chemistry at Columbian university, Washington, D.C., from 1892, being dean of the Corcoran Scientific school, 1892-99, and dean of the School of Graduate
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Studies from 1893. He was an authority on ex-
plosives, invented a smokeless powder in 1890,
and his researches on the subject of explosives
appeared in scientific journals in the United
States and Europe. He started the mineral cabi-
net at the U.S. Naval academy during his service
there and established a post graduate course for
naval officers at the Smithsonian Institution. He
Avas appointed by Presidents Arthur, Cleveland
and Harrison, a member of the assay commission
to test the United States coinage; served on the
U.S. coast and geodetic survey in 1882 to examine
the 03^ster-bearing waters of Cliesapeake bay,
was a special agent of the U.S. census of 1880 to
report on the building stones of Maryland and
Virginia, was vice-president of the board of visi-
tors to the U.S. Naval academy, 1898, and expert
special agent of the U.S. census of 1900 on the
chemical industries of the United States. He was
decorated in 1901 bj^the Sultan of Turkey as com-
mandant of the order of the Medjidji, and in Octo-
ber, 1900, was designated by the Royal Academy
of Science of Stockholm, Sweden, to nominate
American inventors and discoverers in the science
of chemistry desiring to compete for the Nobel
prizes, provided by the will of Alfred Nobel,
the inventor of dynamite. He was secretary,
treasurer and corresponding secretary of the
U.S. Naval institute; vice-president of the chem-
ical section of the American Association for
the Advancement of Science; president of the
Washington (D.C.) Chemical society: president
of the American Chemical society; fellow of the
American Academy of Sciences, and a member of
the American Philosophical society, the Amer-
ican Institute of Mining Engineers, and of the
Washington Academy of Science. He was also
a fellow of the Berlin and London chemical socie-
ties and of the Society of Chemical Industry of
England. He received the degree of Ph.D. at
Columbian universit}' in 1894. He was married
in 1883 to Mary Louise, daughter of Prof. George
F. Barker of the University of Pennsylvania. He
is the author of over 100 papers on chemistry and
explosives; of Notes on the Literature of Explo-
sives, published periodically, 1882-1898; of an In-
dex to the Literature of Explosives (Part I. 1886,
Part II, 1893); Lectures on Chemistry and Explo-
sives (1888), and of a Catechism of Exjilosives
(1888).
nUNROE, Kirk, author, was born near Prairie du Chien, Wis., Sept. 15, 1850; son of Charles and Susan (Hall) Munroe; grandson of Edmund and Sophia (Seawell) Monroe, and of Isaac and Susan (Mitchell) Hall, all of Boston. Mass.. and a descendant of William Munroe of Lexington, Mass., 1651. There were fifteen Slonroes in the battle of Lexington, and one of them fired the first shot. The first man killed was a Munroe.
