![]() 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. Barr on September 15, 1883.The couple settled in Coconut Grove, Miami, Florida in 1886.Mary accompanied him on several cruises on the Allapata, a thirty-five foot sharpie-ketch sailboat designed by Ralph Middleton Munroe. Munroe was the Wheelmen's first Commander.He married Mary Barr, daughter of Amelia E. 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. He publicly dropped "Charles" from his name in 1883. His youth was spent on the frontier, after which his family moved to Cambridge, Massachusetts where he attended school until he was sixteen. The author: Kirk Munroe (Septem– June 16, 1930) was an American writer and conservationist. Born Charles Kirk Munroe in a log cab near Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin,Munroe was the son of Charles and Susan (Hall) Munroe. The book : Very attractive First edition of In Pirate Waters, a Tale of the American Navy. Illustrations : Illustrated with 8 full page illustrations. First Edition.īinding : Very good and attractive full Victorian decorated cloth binding (hinges fine) under a protective removable mylar cover.Ĭontent : Very good content (bright, tight and clean, some foxing and staining ). Publisher : New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1898. The Library of Congress holds the papers of Kirk Munroe.Title : In Pirate Waters, a Tale of the American Navy. The city of Miami's only tennis park is named Kirk Munroe Park and is located at 3101 Florida Avenue in Coconut Grove. He was buried next to his first wife, Mary, at Woodlawn Park Cemetery in Miami. Kirk Munroe died in Orlando, Florida, on June 16, 1930, at the age of 79. Īfter Mary died in September 1922, he married his second wife, Mabel Stearns, in 1924. ![]() Munroe helped establish what is today called Ransom Everglades School. It was the first tennis court in Miami-Dade county. ![]() Munroe built a tennis court on his property. Bradley was later killed by plume hunters while on duty in the Everglades. Mary accompanied him on several cruises on the Allapata, a 35-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. His youth was spent on the frontier, after which his family moved to Cambridge, Massachusetts, where he attended school until he was sixteen. Kirk Munroe (Septem– June 16, 1930) was an American writer and conservationist.īorn Charles Kirk Munroe in a log cabin near Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin, Munroe was the son of Charles and Susan (Hall) Munroe.
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