Harvey Gage Monroe

1846 - 1910  (64 years)

• Name	Harvey Gage Monroe  [1, 2, 3, 4]
  Born	22 Oct 1846	Henrietta, Monroe Co., New York, USA
  Gender	Male
  Died	17 Dec 1910	Pontiac, Oakland Co., Michigan, USA
  Buried	Pontiac, Oakland Co., Michigan, USA
  	Harvey was buried at the Oakhill Cemetery.
  Person ID	I32834	Munro
  Last Modified	19 Jun 2012

  
  

  Father	Myron Hawley Monroe,   b. 3 Jul 1824, Henrietta, Monroe Co., New York, USA ,   d. 18 Jan 1912, Allegany, Cattaraugus Co., New York, USA  (Age 87 years)
  Mother	Laura Ann Gage,   b. 4 Aug 1825, Henrietta, Monroe Co., New York, USA ,   d. 22 Oct 1846, Henrietta, Monroe Co., New York, USA  (Age 21 years)
  Married	1845
  Family ID	F11319	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Mary Adele Davis,   b. 19 Jul 1851, Davisburg, Oakland Co., Michigan, USA ,   d. 19 Nov 1920, Pontiac, Oakland Co., Michigan, USA  (Age 69 years)
  Married	23 Oct 1872	Davisburg, Oakland Co., Michigan, USA
  Children	+ 1. Charlotte Estella Monroe,   b. 4 Jun 1874, Davisburg, Oakland Co., Michigan, USA ,   d. 31 Oct 1960, Pontiac, Oakland Co., Michigan, USA  (Age 86 years) + 2. Sarah Adelle Monroe,   b. 22 Mar 1877, Davisburg, Oakland Co., Michigan, USA ,   d. 18 Jan 1966, White Plains, Westchester Co., New York, USA  (Age 88 years) + 3. Hector Lafayette Monroe,   b. 10 Sep 1879, Davisburg, Oakland Co., Michigan, USA ,   d. 6 Mar 1963, Pontiac, Oakland Co., Michigan, USA  (Age 83 years) + 4. Charles Augustus Monroe,   b. 15 Mar 1885, Pontiac, Oakland Co., Michigan, USA ,   d. 5 Apr 1930, Pontiac, Oakland Co., Michigan, USA  (Age 45 years) + 5. John Davis Monroe, MD,   b. 4 Feb 1892, Pontiac, Oakland Co., Michigan, USA ,   d. 2 Dec 1963, Pontiac, Oakland Co., Michigan, USA  (Age 71 years)
  Last Modified	1 Dec 2009
  Family ID	F11330	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  ********** (The following is from "Descendants of John Munro" - by W.M. Roeser - Clan Munro files - Roeser, Waldomar Monroe) «i»Harvey Gage Monroe was born in Henrietta, New York near Rochester. His mother, Laura Gage died in childbirth. His father and the rest of his siblings were all involved in photography. Harvey and his brother Frank (Francis Monroe who later became a dentist) apparently worked for "The Detroit and Milwaukee Railroad" (later the Grand Trunk Railroad) in the Photographic Department. While in their service, and while in Michigan, Harvey met and married Mary "Mate" Davis in 1872, granddaughter of Cornelius Davis who founded Davisburg. Mary's parents were furious when they found out, and threw Mary out of the family house. Frank Monroe in a letter to his parents documents the events surrounding that time. In the 1880 census, Harvey was living in Davisburg, Springfield Twp. and Heck was 8 months old. At that time, his grandmother, Cynthia Gage was living with the family, and was 74 years old. Harvey moved his family from Davisburg to Pontiac in 1883 when he was named City Engineer. He initially lived above the Fire Barns and them moved to 68 Norton Avenue. Harvey was Chief Engineer of the Fire Department for 12 years. He was appointed City Engineer of the city of Pontiac, Michigan on April 11, 1883. He was made superintendent of construction when the municipal water works was established in 1887, and headed the department from the beginning work on the plant until his death in 1910. He was succeeded by his son, Hector L. Monroe. He recommended and oversaw the building of the retaining reservoir that was subsequently named "The Harvey G. Monroe Reservoir". He was an accomplished wheelwright, a landscape photographer, and as a hobby, made violins and violas. Harvey also turned down a request from Horace Rackham (married to his wife Mary Davis' cousin) to join the investors in Henry Ford's budding automobile building enterprise. He died of cancer after a protracted painful illness on 17 Dec 1910. «/i»********** In Rochester, New York, USA in 1877, a young bank clerk called George Eastman planned to take a summer vacation in Santo Domingo, and a colleague suggested he should make a photographic record. Eastman bought all the necessary equipment for the wet plate process and took lessons from a professional photographer, G. H. Munroe, the son of a long-established Rochester photographer Myron H. Monroe. Eastman never made the trip, but it was the start of his long and eventually profitable involvement with the medium. He found the collodion process complex and started experiments to try to simplify it. References: (1) Clan Munro files - Roeser, Douglas Lee - Direct Descendants of Abel Monroe - undated Compiled and edited by Allen Alger, Genealogist, Clan Munro Association, USA [5]

  
  

• Sources

  [S254] Clan Munro files - Roeser, Waldomar Monroe, Waldomar Monroe Roeser, Membership application for Waldomar Monroe Roeser dated 1 3 Oct 2003 (Reliability: 3). [S254] Clan Munro files - Roeser, Waldomar Monroe, Waldomar Monroe Roeser, Descendants of Robert Monroe - p. 3 (Reliability: 3). [S254] Clan Munro files - Roeser, Waldomar Monroe, Waldomar Monroe Roeser, Descendants of Abel Monroe - 29 Jul 2009 - p. 1 (Reliability: 3). [S254] Clan Munro files - Roeser, Waldomar Monroe, Waldomar Monroe Roeser, Descendants of John Munro (Reliability: 3). [S379] Clan Munro files - Swanson, Michael, Michael Swanson, Monroe-Swanson database - received 18 Jan 2005 (Reliability: 3).