The Worcester of eighteen hundred and ninety-eightFifty years a city . fromthe active management of musical organizations, although still loving musicand singing occasionally in various societies. Mrs. Munroe was for twenty-one years a member of the same choirs withher husband, and beginning her church choir work at fourteen years of ageas leading contralto of a large choir, she continued to sustain positions inchurch quartette choirs for thirty-two years, twelve years as soprano andtwenty years as contralto, her voice, of more than three octaves in range,enabling her to sing either part. For
The Worcester of eighteen hundred and ninety-eightFifty years a city . fromthe active management of musical organizations, although still loving musicand singing occasionally in various societies. Mrs. Munroe was for twenty-one years a member of the same choirs withher husband, and beginning her church choir work at fourteen years of ageas leading contralto of a large choir, she continued to sustain positions inchurch quartette choirs for thirty-two years, twelve years as soprano andtwenty years as contralto, her voice, of more than three octaves in range,enabling her to sing either part. For twelve years she was the principalcontralto soloist of the Worcester and other music festivals. Mrs. Munroe is now and has for five years been president and a singingmember of the Worcester Ladies Home Music Club, which, organized throughher efforts, has proved a source of much pleasure to the members and theirfriends; she is now and for five years has been president of the WomensAuxiliary to the Worcester Young Mens Christian Association. The Worcester of 1898. 695. JOHN P. MUNROE. John P. Munroe, son of John and Mary(Epps) Munroe, was born in Concord, NewHampshire, June 28, 1850. His father, anative of Rutland, Massachusetts, be-longed to that branch of the Munroefamily which had settled in Lexingtonprevious to the War of the subject of this sketch was educatedin the public schools of Concord, grad-uating from the high school in 1865 to 1872 he was a telegraphoperator, and in April, 1869, at the age ofeighteen, came to Worcester to take newsdispatches of the Associated Press forthe Daily Spy. March i, 1872, he enteredthe employ of the Spy as city editor, andremained in that capacity and as nighteditor until July i, 1898. For many years he has been the Worcester correspondent of the Boston Herald. retired from the Spy staff to become the general agent forWorcester county of the Equitable Life Assurance Society of the UnitedStates, with an of
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