People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 March 1894 — NORMAN L. MUNRO DEAD. [ARTICLE]

NORMAN L. MUNRO DEAD.

The Well-Known New York Publisher Dies from the Effect* of an Operation. New York, Feb. 27.—Norman L. Munro, well known to the American public as a publisher and yachtsman, died at 6:20 o’clock Saturday evening in his apartments in the Hoffman house from the effects of an operation performed on him Friday for the removal of the veriform appendix. (Mr. Munro was born in 1844 at Mill Brook, Pictou county. N. S. Ills father was a farmer and he was brought up on the farm. He left the farm when he was 25 years old and came to this city. He got work in a publishing house and set himself steadily at the business of mastering the details and of saving money to make a start with. The first number of the New York Family Story Paper went to press on black Friday in September, 1873. He erected the Munro building in Vandewater street in 1882 and extended the number of his publications and printed “Munro's Library” and Munro’s Pocket Magazine. About seven years ago he bought ihe Mary Anderson place on Cedar avenue, Long Branch, and about the same time he became interested in the production of fast steam yachts. Mr. Munro's fortune is estimated at from 53,000,000 to $5,000,000. Within a year he refused an offer of $1,500,000 for his publications aud publishing house.]