Mary Barr Munroe

Mary Barr Munroe (January 5, 1852 – September 8, 1922) was a Scottish-born American clubwoman and conservationist, based in Miami, Florida.

[1] Her mother was a prolific novelist and teacher, born in Lancashire; her father was a wool merchant.

She moved to the United States as a baby, and spent her girlhood in Chicago, in Texas, (where her father and brothers died from yellow fever), and in New York.

[2] Munroe moved to Florida with her husband in 1886, becoming one of the "pioneers" of the Coconut Grove neighborhood of Miami.

[14][15] She started an interracial sewing club,[16] and attended services at a nearby black church.