Henry Hoyt Munroe

1817 - 1895  (77 years)

• Name	Henry Hoyt Munroe
  Born	18 Dec 1817	Danbury, Fairfield Co., Connecticut, USA
  Gender	Male
  Died	22 Oct 1895	Dundee, Mchenry Co., Illinois
  Buried	Woodstock, Illinois
  Person ID	I1680	Munro
  Last Modified	2 Jan 2003

  
  

  Father	Henry H. Munro,   b. Abt 1790, Prob., Connecticut ,   d. 1824, New York, New York Co., New York, USA  (Age ~ 34 years)
  Mother	Polly Mansfield,   b. 1798, Danbury, Fairfield Co., Connecticut, USA ,   d. 1848  (Age 50 years)
  Married	1814	Danbury, Fairfield Co., Connecticut, USA
  Family ID	F798	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Eliza Sanford,   b. 7 Oct 1813, New York, New York Co., New York, USA ,   d. 13 Oct 1903, Dundee, Mchenry Co., Illinois  (Age 90 years)
  Married	13 Jun 1837	Danbury, Fairfield Co., Connecticut, USA
  Children	1. Mary Eliza Monroe,   b. 1838, Danbury, Fairfield Co., Connecticut, USA ,   d. 6 Aug 1868, Chicago, Cook Co., Illinois, USA  (Age 30 years) + 2. William Henry Monroe,   b. 1843, Redding, Fairfield, Connecticut, USA ,   d. 14 Apr 1916, Woodstock, Illinois  (Age 73 years) + 3. Edward Hudson Munroe,   b. 25 Dec 1850, Danbury, Fairfield Co., Connecticut, USA ,   d. 18 Sep 1894-1895, Chicago, Cook Co., Illinois, USA  (Age 44 years)
  Last Modified	20 Jan 2009
  Family ID	F797	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  Henry was only seven when his father fell through the ice of a river and drowned. At the age of nine, Henry was farmed out to earn his keep and there learned the carpenter and cabinet making trade. In adulthood, he carried on this business in Danbury and Redding, Connecticut. On 13 Jun 1837, he married Eliza, the only daughter of Hudson and Betty (or Betsey) (Little) Sanford. In 1855, Henry and his family moved to Chicago, Illinois where he engaged in the undertaking business for one year. At that time, he was one of only four undertakers in the city of Chicago. They lived in Woodstock, Illinois from 1856 until after the outbreak of the Civil War, at which time they moved to Louisville, Kentucky. There Henry bought an interest in the Goodwillie Box Co., which was making bread boxes for the government. The box factory burned down, but the family remained in Louisville to be near their son, William Henry, who had joined the Union Army. Henry's wife, Eliza, showed her patriotism in that rebel city by hanging the American flag in front of their residence every day until her son returned. Eliza and her daughter, Mary, daily visited hospitals in Louisville ministering to the wants and needs of the sick and wounded soldiers and looking for boys from Woodstock. They took many into their home where they nursed them until they recovered. While living in Louisville, Henry found time to establish a "Mission Sabbath School" in a neglected part of the city. From this small mission, which was started in a hall, grew a prosperous Methodist Church. As the mission grew, they expanded. Henry helped build a new church where he preached until he returned to Woodstock, Illinois in 1876. Years later, Henry was called back to Louisville to dedicate a lovely new church that had grown from the little Mission School he founded. Henry started out as a Methodist, but in later years preached in Congregational Churches. In 1877, he was engaged in the service of the American Bible Society in McHenry, Illinois and in 1878, he became pastor of the Congregational Church in Bartlett, Illinois. He remained there until 1886 when he moved to Malta, Illinois to assume the pastorate of the Congregational Church there. After three years, his health failing, he was obliged to give up the pastorate and moved to West Dundee, Illinois for his retirement because "there were no saloons there". While in retirement he helped build the parsonage of the Congregational Church of Algonquin, Illinois where his granddaughter's husband, William Hench, was pastor. Henry died 22 Oct 1895 after spending his life in the service of others and always giving ten percent of his earnings to charity. Ref: "The Monroe Book" by Dr. Joan S. Guilford - Conn. Unconnected Monroes Clan Munro files - Kaufhold, Shirley Carlson Compiled and edited by Allen Alger, Genealogist, Clan Munro Association, USA