Wilfred Harold Munro

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Wilfred Harold Munro (August 20, 1849–August 9, 1934) was an American historian, brother of Dana C. Munro. He was born at Bristol, R. I., and educated at Brown (A.B., 1870; A.M., 1873). He studied in Europe at Heidelberg and Freiburg. He served at various schools in the United States and in Central and South America, and at Brown (1891-1911). Professor Munro edited Works of W. H. Prescott (twenty-two volumes, 1905-06) and Record Book of the Rhode Island Society of Mayflower Descendants (1911).

Munro died in Providence, Rhode Island in 1934.

He was the author of:

• The History of Bristol, R. I. (1880)
• Picturesque Rhode Island (1881)
• The Most Successful American Privateer (1913)
• Some Legends of Mount Hope (1915)

[edit] External link

• Encyclopedia Brunoniana biography at Brown University