(1867-1954), farmer. (William Munro) Parents: Donald William Munro and his wife Mary MacGregor. In the Cornwall Cheese and Butter Board history of 1920, he was described as “the owner of the largest herd of Pure Bred Jersey cattle in the Three United Counties.” At this time he had a 228-acre farm east of Martintown on Lot 30, lst Concession N.R.R., Charlottenburgh Township, and his Jersey herd totalled sixty head. In retirement in 1953 , he recalled he sometimes had as many as 80. (Mullin) He manufactured butter on his own farm, which in his earliest years he sold house to house in Cornwall. By 1920, he was selling it in Cornwall to “local merchants.” An elderly man in 2007 still remembered going to Munro’s farm to buy “home-made butter.” Munro sold his herd about the end of the 1940s. He was married to Jessie Rhoda White. (no children) He is buried at the North Branch Cemetery.

Stiles 198: biog. (with photo of barns) * Alex Mullin , “Martintown Farmer First with Jerseys,” Standard Freeholder 25 Sept. 1953 (with good portrait) * private information