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The following is from "Foulis Castle and the Monroes of Lower Iveagh" by Horace Monroe - Foreword
This book is an attempt to supply an omission in Alexander Mackenzie's work - "The History of the Munros of Foulis" - to which the writer of this memoir is much indebted. There is no mention in Mackenzie's book of the Irish branch of the family, nor even of that son of the Scotch house who became the progenitor of the Irish branch.
Major Daniel Munro of the house of Obsdale was a man of no small importance, and if "I sing of arms and of a man" I do so because upon this soldier of General Robert Munro's army the Irish branch of the family depends. Daniel Munro went with his brother, Robert Munro, and his nephew, George Munro, to Ireland in 1642. His is honourably named in the history of the long campaign which began in 1641, and his dispatch to the Marquis of Ormonde, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, dated 3 May 1649 is preserved in Trinity College, Dublin, while the public records of Ireland show that in 1666 lands in Lower Iveagh were granted to him for services rendered to the crown.
This third son of George Munro of Obsdale, the link between the Scotch and Irish Munros, is the son of the house of Foulis through whom the Monroes of Lower Iveagh claim their ancient origin.
Horace Monroe - Wimbledon, 1929
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Compiled and edited by Allen Alger, Genealogist, Clan Munro Association, USA | Munro, Col. Daniel (I3624)
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The following is from "History of Houston County" via the George Monroe reference.
The following sketch of Col. A. T. Monroe is furnished the author by his only living son, A. T. Monroe, Jr. of San Antonio.
A. T. Monroe was the son of Augustine Garnett Monroe, who was a nephew of President James Monroe.
"My father had three brothers, named, James, John and Joseph. James was a general in the northern army and his regiment guarded the capital at Washington during the Civil War. He died in harness and his remains lie in the Nathonal cemetery at Washington. A life-like painting of him is now hanging in the armory in New York City. John, his brother, was trader and left his family well provided for in New York City. His brother, Joseph, was a priest in New york City. Mrs. Douglas Robinson of New York City, who was a grandchild of President James Monroe, was a first cosin of my father, and her son married a sister of President Theodore Roosevelt.
My father left Virbinia when he was 18 years old and went to New York City, and my recollection is that he came to Texas in 1842 or 1843, landing at the west end of Galveston Island, instead of the east end, which is now Galveston City. A short time after this he went by ship to Liberty and took a steamboat to Alabama Crossing, on Trinity River, in Houston County. There he remained and went into the mercantile business working with Jacob Albright. In 1846 he married Jacob's daughter, Rachel. He was the oldest child in the family and the only one who came south.
My father had the first wood cook stove that was in Houston County, and had it put up at home, but the negro cook said she couldn't cook on that thing, and the only way he could get her to use it was to have the fireplace walled up. After that she would sneak out to her cabin and cook things in the fireplace. It took our family a long time to get her to use the stove.
A. T. Monroe was one of the most enterprising men who ever lived in Crockett. Soon after moving to Crockett from Alabama Crossing he build a home on the main street of Crockett--the very house is still standing in good condition. It is now the home of George W. Crook and was built in 1854. The large hewed oak sills in the house are as sound today as when the house was built. The outer walls were weather boarded with good, heart lumber, sawed by H. F. Craddock and dressed by hand. The ceiling was of the same character of lumber. The space between the walls was filled with brick and lathing placed on the inside for plastering, which was never completed. In 1880, a daughter of Uncle Dan Coleman sold the place to Oliver C. Aldrich, who lived there until his death in 1889. After that the author became the owner of the property and sold it to George W. Crook and his wife in 1911. The author has heard the old man Salathiel Robert, a brick mason, say that he built the chimneys to the house, and they are standing today in good condition.
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Armstead (or Armistead) built a home in Crocket, Texas which later became a museum. The Ruby Monroe reference says he died there.
It appears that he remarried after his first wife died.
The Johnson reference says that Armistead may have been the son of Andrew Augustine Monroe [3556].
Ref: Clan Munro files - Monroe, Ruby Lucille
Armstead may have been born 5 Mar 1818.
References:
(1) Clan Munro files - Roder, Mary Margaret Ball - Pedigree chart for Mary
Cooke Monroe compiled by Rebekah B. McBride - dated 12 Oct 1977 - # 4
(2) Clan Munro files - Roder, Mary Margaret Ball - short undated biography
which accompanied Mary Roder's membership application - author unknown
(3) Clan Munro files - Roder, Mary Margaret Ball - family group record for
Armstead Thompson Mason Monroe - undated
Compiled and edited by Allen Alger, Genealogist, Clan Munro Association, USA | Monroe, Armistead Thompson Mason (I5273)
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The following is from "Munro Family" by E.W. Wait - published in 1958:
John was sixty-three years old when he made the acquaintance of young Hector Munro. In February 1764, Hector, accompanied by a relative named Donald, turned up in Rehoboth and wrote a letter to a cousin back home in the Concord-Lexington area. He stated that he and Donald had been unable to find work in Boston, so had started for New York.
"We marched from Boston," wrote Hector, "that very same day and came to Providence and as I was very curios inquiring after my Relations and Kinsmen, I was informed that there was Great Many of them in Rehoboth & Bristol within six mile of Providence & that same hour we marched of in order to find them out which we did that same night with one Nathan Munroe as stately a man as ever you seied of the name and he keepted us with him Two days and the Third he convoyed us to his father's house a good stately old man that hath great deal of Regard for his relations and he keepted us four days and the fift he and Nathan his son went along with us to convoy us in order to show us the rest of our relations down at Bristol and the very first house we came to was Doctor Munro, Captain Thomas Munro's son at Concord." (Doctor Munro was born in Concord in 1731, a grandson of the first William Munroe of Lexington; but had moved from there to Bristol before 1762.)
It was providential for us that Boston had offered no employment to Hector, for otherwise he might never have gotten to Rehoboth and written the letter which adds proof of the relationship between the Bristol and Lexington Munroe families. (Incidentally, Hector went no further to seek his fortune; he married a Rehoboth girl and had several children born in Rehoboth and in 1776 he made his will because he was going into the Army.)
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Compiled and edited by Allen Alger, Genealogist, Clan Munro Association, USA | Munro, Hector (I3313)
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The following is from "Munro Family" by E.W. Wait via the Beckett reference.
"Elizabeth Church was the daughter of the famous Indian fighter, Benjamin Church, who was the first white man to settle at Sakonnet (Little Compton) and later moved to Bristol. He was directly responsible for bringing the bitter war with King Philip to an end. He wrote an account of his military career, abbreviatedly called ENTERTAINING PASSAGES, which was published in 1716; and he has been made a leading character in a book of historical fiction by Noel B. Gerson, entitled SAVAGE GENTLEMAN."
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Compiled and edited by Allen Alger, Genealogist, Clan Munro Association, USA | Church, Col. Benjamin (I56431)
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The following is from "Munro Family" by E.W. Wait via the Beckett reference.
"Hannah Rosbotham, John Munroe's wife, was born in Bristol on June 20, 1711, the daughter of Captain Joseph and Elizabeth (Church) Rosbotham, As there are no previous occurences of that odd name in New England, I am inclined to think that Captain Rosbotham was a sea-faring man who sailed in and out of the flourishing port of Bristol, that he settled down long enough to marry and have four children - Hannah being the youngest - and that between 1711 and 1717, when his widow remarried, he was lost at sea."
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Compiled and edited by Allen Alger, Genealogist, Clan Munro Association, USA | Rosbotham, Capt. Joseph (I56315)
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The following is from "The Munros of Mallorytown (and Beyond!)" - compiled by Jo Ann Munro Tuskin - Apr 2008:
Catherine Leech sent a petition from Augusta Townshiip in Aug 1789: "That your Petitioner had considerable property taken from her in the Colonies, & her husband was murdered by the rebels, on account of his attachment to the British Government. That your petitioner is Desirous of becoming an Inhabitant in this district. She therefore prays the Home board will be pleased to Grant her two Hundred acres of land, as a compensation for her Losses and Sufferings." As a result, she was "admitted for two hundred acres". (NA RG 1, L 3, Upper Canada Land Petitions, vol 306, 'L' Bundle, Miscellaneous, No. 158, microfilm C-2138)
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I the subscriber do certify that in the Fall of 1782 - was sent by General Haldimand, then Commander and Chief of the Province of Quebec etc etc etc - as a ??? to take a number of prisoners, men, women - to East Bay at the south end of Lake Champlain in the State of New York - and when he arrived there found three families waiting for an oppontunity to get to Saint Johns in the Lower Provinces - and after Landing the prisoners sent those boats back to Crown Point to the shiping - and the families waiting (Viz) - Mrs. Spooner and Children, John Atkins, wife and children and Mrs. Catherine Leech and Children - and do certify that Mrs. Catharine Proctor is Daughter to the said Mrs. Leech. Given under my hand in Yonge this 17th Jan'y 1808. Thomas Smyth J.P.
We have assumed that Catharine Leech, widow, was the Katharine Reid who married John Munro in Norwalk, Connecticut, 30 Oct 1766, for two reasons: an old, hand-written family notebook has the name Kathryne Reid' beside Daniel's name; and the name Reid has been passed down in her son Samuel's line as well as in her grandson Timothy's line and a note from a cousin says that he (Timothy) wanted the name Reid given to his grandson as 'it was his grandmother's name'.
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Katherine's daughter, Freelove, is the only child at law and heiress of Thomas Golden. He settled before 1796. In the original documents, the last 3 girls are listed as "illegitimate".
References:
(1) Clan Munro files - Munro, Ronald Geyer - Research in Branford, Connecticut
for Mrs. Elise Wildman Hammer - undated
Compiled and edited by Allen Alger, Genealogist, Clan Munro Association, USA | Reid (Reed), Catherine (Katherine) (I4446)
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The following is from "William and Mary College Quarterly Historical Magazine" - Vol. XIII #4 - Oct 1933 - The Monroe Family - p. 231-241
There is a record at Westmoreland dated 15 Oct 1685 (Book 2 p. 78) in which it is stated that Andrew Monroe acquits Mr. Thomas White of debts due him from the estate of Mr. Thomas Bowcock. (Thomas Bowcock's widow, Jane Bowcock, married second Thomas White). So far as we have been able to determine, Andrew Monroe had no children by his wife Miss Bowcock. He married second Eleanor Spence, daughter of Lt. Patrick Spence (1633-1684) and Dorcas, his wife.
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Compiled and edited by Allen Alger, Genealogist, Clan Munro Association, USA | Bowcock, Thomas (I55310)
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The following is from "William and Mary College Quarterly Historical Magazine" - Vol. XIII #4 - Oct 1933 - The Monroe Family - p. 231-241 via the Boggs reference:
It would seem from the Westmoreland records that the Monroe and Wroe families were in some way related since they witnessed each others wills, etc.
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References:
(1) Clan Munro files - Redden, Virginia R. - Descendancy Chart of "Andy I"
- received 17 Oct 1997 - p. 1
Compiled and edited by Allen Alger, Genealogist, Clan Munro Association, USA | Weedon, Mary (I3727)
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The following is from a family history manuscript written by John Judson Monroe
Among their children was John Judson, for whom I am named.
John Judson was a huge man, amply fit to cope with the west: the settled prairies of Indiana could not hold him. He migrated to Kansas to farm to save for intermittent expeditions to Colorado and Wyoming. When grasshoppers wiped out his farm, he returned to the middle west, making Illinois hes stamping grounds.
He had had some education at the beginnings of a small college called Ewing in the southern part of Illinois. His physical build fitted him for handling belligerent farmer boys. It was nothing for him, then, to procure numerous positions teaching country school.
Finally he settled down on a farm in Jefferson County, Illinois, near Ina, and not far from Mount Vernon. Marriage, farming, and politics held his attention for many years. For twenty years he was elected road commissioner of the township on the Democratic ticket, and gloried in his responsibility. But there was a Republican landslide one year and he was defeated. He turned tail and became a Reb\\publican henceforth and forevermore. his children never ceased to tease him about it.
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John married Sarah "Sadie" Lavinia Cox, who was called "little grandma" by some of her grandchildren to distinguish her from grandma Koch. She was the daughter of James Duncan and Rebecca Landrum (Davis) Cox and a descendant of John Sevier, the Tennessee pioneer.
John was a 230-pound farmer. He migrated from Illinois to Kansas. On his Kansas farm, he was injured when his team of horses reared at the sound of a rattlesnake. He carried a deep hole in his temple for the rest of his life.
After intermittent expeditions to Colorado and Wyoming, and after grasshoppers wiped out his Kansas farm, he returned to Illinois where he eked out a poor living on a bad farm there. Since he had some education from Ewing, a small college in southern Illinois, he had no trouble procuring numerous positions as a teacher in the country schools of Illinois.
He finally settled on a farm in Jefferson County, Illinois, near Ina. For twenty years he was elected road commissioner of the township on the Democratic ticket, and gloried in his responsibility. There was a Republican landslide one year, and he was defeated. Because of that, he changed parties and became a Republican himself forever after.
The Boak reference gives John's death place, but it is illegible.
Compiled and edited by Allen Alger, Genealogist, Clan Munro Association, USA | Monroe, John Judson (I25041)
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The following is from a family history manuscript written by John Judson Monroe
It has always been a visible source of pride, at least to the juvenile element of the family that she [Sarah Cox] "goes straight back to John Sevier", the Tennessee pioneer. And there have been among the elders those sufficiently intrigued by the sound of an historical name to investigate the matter. Their findings substantiate the claim. All of this only proves that Sarah Cox was a tiny woman, who claimed as much credit for herself as for the grasshopper plague in bringing John Judson back to Illinois.
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Sarah was called "little grandma" by some of her grandchildren to distinguish her from their other grandmother.
Compiled and edited by Allen Alger, Genealogist, Clan Munro Association, USA | Cox, Sarah Lavinia (I25040)
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The following is from a family history manuscript written by John Judson Monroe
James was a commissary sergeant during the Civil War. He "hated like hell" to take food from southern women to feed northern men. During the performance of his disagreeable duty, he was shot in the foot. He died from the wound twenty years later.
Meanwhile he married an Irish girl. Among their children was John Judson, for whom I am named.
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Compiled and edited by Allen Alger, Genealogist, Clan Munro Association, USA | Munro, James (I25023)
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The following is from a family history manuscript written by John Judson Monroe
Louisa was the daughter of a red-headed Lutheran preacher and a Strasbourg girl whose people had fled from the southern part of France after the revocation of the Edict of Nantes, and whose uncles left their bones on the plains of Russia following napoleon's disastrous retreat from Moscow.
Louisa's father had left a good deal of money to several daughters. She used her portion to acquire a literary education thus becoming a "bluestocking". she migrated to the United States to Jacksonville, Illinois, where she became a teacher of French and music at Illinois Women's College."
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Compiled and edited by Allen Alger, Genealogist, Clan Munro Association, USA | Kuhlenthal, Louisa (I58024)
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The following is from a family history manuscript written by John Judson Monroe
One rope led back to Ireland, to the region called Ulster. Half of its strands had crossed the seas from Scotland during Cromwell's time. Here in Ulster four young men, brothers, danced the Kerry dance and sparked the colleens, dug potatoes, and lived upon the lean of the land, all as young men of the day and locality were motivated to do. But only between wars; for they were professional soldiers.
When England had a war forced upon her by the "war-hawks" under the guise of maritime rights in 1812, these vigorous young men promptly responded to the call of romance and lucre. They crossed the Atlantic, and fought nobly against hordes of American militiamen. But when the war was over, James Munro found himself alone in the world; his brothers were gone. He was unable to trace them. Whatever mental anguish he may have suffered because of his loss, he had no qualms in leaving the army. Sentiment says his time was out, but reason boasts, "He deserted". The call of the west got in his blood, and he traveled toward the setting sun until he came to Indiana. Here he settled, and was married to a quarter-breed Indian girl whose pretty name was Charity Fairchild. Among their children was another James.
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James originally came from around Ulster where his ancestors had fled from Scotland during the time of Cromwell. He went to the United States with three of his brothers to fight in the War of 1812. Although they "fought nobly against the Americans, the four of them deserted when the war was over. James lost track of his three brothers so he traveled west to Illinois, where he settled.
He married Charity Fairchild, who is said to have been a half-breed (or "quarter-breed") Indian. Some references say it was James' grandson, John Judson Monroe who married Charity Fairchild, but that is probably an error.
Compiled and edited by Allen Alger, Genealogist, Clan Munro Association, USA | Munro, James (I25021)
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The following is from a family history manuscript written by John Judson Monroe
The other rope leads back to France and Germany. It needs much untangling.
Augusta Görtinger lived in Westphalia. She was a baker's daughter, and was superlatively homely. But she had sufficient charm to attract the eye of Johann Koch, a German landgraf, whose peers infested the country at the time.
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Compiled and edited by Allen Alger, Genealogist, Clan Munro Association, USA | Görtinger, Augusta (I58017)
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The following is from a family history manuscript written by John Judson Monroe
Their child was called August Koch. A technical education fitted him for later becoming the superintendent of a railroad foundry in East Saginaw, Michigan. Here it was the he met Elizabeth habermaas, teacher of German in the high school.
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Compiled and edited by Allen Alger, Genealogist, Clan Munro Association, USA | Koch, August (I58022)
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The following is from a newspaper article that appeared in the Joliet Herald-News, 17 Jun 1971 - p. 14
Realtor, politician gave name to Munro Street
by Elmer F. Ott
Herald-News Writer
Munro Street was named for George H. Munroe, Joliet realtor, bank executive and state senator.
Munroe Street starts at 427 S. Chicago St. and goes west. It is mostly residential.
Munroe was born near Watertown, N.Y., Sept. 24, 1844, the son of George Munroe, whose family can be traced to the year 1050 in the extreme north of Scotland. During the 17th century some members of the family served in the ill-fated army of Charles I.
George H. Munroe was five years old when his family settled on a Will County farm. He attended public schools in Florence Township and private schools in Wilmington and Joliet. He later served as a deputy sheriff for two years.
In 1865 he became associated with his father in G. Munroe and Son, which existed until the death of his father in 1890. He and his brother Edwin conducted a real estate and mortgage, banking and trust company and platted numerous additions and subdivisions in the city. He was a vice president and large stockholder in the Western Stone Quarry and director and one of the largest stockholders in the Joliet National Bank.
Munroe also was reported to have had two of the most important receiverships in the country. The state penitentiary in 1868 changed from the contract system of operation to state accounts and he was appointed receiver of the Illinois Manufacturing Co., which held the lease and all business at the prison. He settled the affairs of the company, made the sale to the state and divided about $250,000 among the stockholders.
He was also receiver for the Joliet Enterprise Co., which he managed with other large trusts.
Munroe, with his practical business experiences, is reported to have been the leading figure in construction of the large auditorium at Chicago and Clinton Streets which still stands today.
The elder Munroe had managed a woolen mill near the Jefferson Street bridge. In 1862 he was elected County Sheriff for a term. In 1865 he and his son George H. were partners in a grocery business and for 10 years occupied a building at Chicago and Jefferson Streets. For the next six years he conducted business in the Opera House building. In 1884 they built the first large building on Chicago and Cass Streets. This later became the Munroe Hotel.
George Munroe Jr., an ardent Republican, was elected to the state senate in 1894.
The then Democratic City of Joliet elected him with a majority of more than 1,100 votes. In the 39th and 40th general assemblies he was named chairman of the committee on waterways and drainage. Several important bills were passed through his efforts including the establishment of the Women's Relief Corps home at Wilmington and the removal of the women's prison from Joliet.
When his term of office expired, he was asked to seek the office of Illinois governor, which he declined nor did he seek reelection as state senator.
Historians claim that few people realize the true value of a thoroughly honest and capable public-spirited citizen such as Munroe.
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The following is from a newspaper article dated 20 Feb 1994.
Daring and Dastardly
One of the most daring and cold-blooded attempts at murder in this locality was the event that startled the citizens of Joliet last Wednesday morning. Happily the accompanying news afforded immense relief.
Shortly after midnight George Munroe and wife were awakened by feeling an unusually cold air in their sleeping room, and hearing foot steps in the dining room. Supposing their son Ed was entering the house no alarm was experienced. Mr. Munroe arose, however, to attend to the fire, after which he lighted a match and started for the dining room to ascertain the time. As he passed through the doorway an arm was raised before him and distant a revolver was fired almost full in his face. Instinctively Mr. Munroe dodged his head slightly as the arm was raised before him, and this slight motion saved him his life. The ball whizzed by him and was imbedded in the door casing, while his face was filled with powder.
His cries of murder immediately alarmed the household, and the would-be again hastily fled without either attempting another shot or waiting to know the effect of his murderous attempt.
The villain had cut a pane of glass from a window and after gaining entrance had cautiously opened wide the outer door to afford easy escape. He is described as a man of low stature, and as he made his hasty exit, he appeared somewhat deformed and his gait an awkward one.
The theory entertained by Mr. Munroe is that the prowler was in search of the keys to their grocery establishment, and as his movements demonstrated, was prepared to secure them at all hazards. His face was masked, but Mr. Munroe believes that he can identify his assailant if the opportunity occurs.
Numerous are the congratulations of friends extended Mr. Munroe and family, and indeed, they have cause to rejoice at the exceedingly narrow escape.
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The following is from a short booklet titled, "In Memoriam - George Henry Munroe" by his friend, William Grin ton - 1912
...in 1862, eighteen years of age, [George was] acting as his father's deputy, and known as "The Boy Sheriff" of Will County. In those war times the Sheriff's duties were strenuous and hazardous; desperadoes and desperate characters of high and low degree swarmed about the City; the police department crude and inefficient; thus the Sheriff had jurisdiction over the undesirable citizens. "Bounty Jumpers" came to the Provost Marshal's headquarters to fill the demand for substitutes; get their bounty, then set their wits to work devising schemes to "Jump;" good horses had to be carefully guarded, and horse thieves caught. The young Deputy had to have his nerve and wits at all times ready for quick action for most of those desperate characters he had to contend with were gun-men and an officer who crossed their path was in as much danger as he would have been hunting Bushwhackers and Guerrillas in the enemy's country.
It was a rigid school in which he learned self reliance, self discipline, self control and tact and in after years he made good use of the training, along other lines; always masterful and quick to act, he would cut a knot instead of wasting time untying it to save the string.
About the year 1868, convict labor at the State Prison was under contract with a syndicate and the business had become so tangled and unsatisfactory that it was necessary to close out the concern. Mr. Munroe, only twenty-four years of age, at the time, was appointed Receiver to wind up the business and distributed about two hundred and fifty thousand dollars of proceeds. His judicial fairness, and the general satisfactory manner in which he handled the whole deal, gave him the prestige of being a young man of unusual business ability.
In the "Panic of '92-'93" the Joliet Enterprise Co. failed, and Mr. Munroe was appointed Receiver. The affairs of the company were in a complex and complicated condition and those panic days were hard ones for doing business, but in a reasonable time he had the whole matter cleaned up and the proceeds distributed.
Mr. Munroe was raised on a farm and always felt the lure of the land; he understood farmers and counted many of them his life long friends. He was one half Scotch and a living embodiment of the adage: "The Scotch never give up." When the big freeze ruined many orange groves down in the land where the palm tree grows, many discouraged orange growers abandoned their groves and let them go back to wilderness and jungles, but Mr. Munroe immediately began planting and grafting orange trees and in a few years had a large acreage of profitable orange groves with fruit of the finest quality.
Mr. Munroe was a man of vivid imagination; a man who saw visions; but not a visionary man, in the usual acceptance of the term. He saw visions then backed up his visions with persistent know how and hard work, until they became realities. He imagined Chicago street, the main business street of Joliet; then became an enthusiastic pioneer, blazing the trail with business blocks. As the agent of Horace Weeks, he had contracted with a syndicate to erect a theatre building; it had made but a small payment on the contract; the Iroquois Theatre fire came just at that time; it looked like dark days for new theatrical enterprises--the panic stricken syndicate disappeared.
Mr. Munroe's imagination carried him beyond the panic; he immediately put men to work completing the structure for the theatre; rented it before it was finished to a responsible tenant and it has proven to be a profitable investment for both landlord and tenant.
Mr. Munroe imagined that the north east corner of Scott and Clinton streets which his firm, as agents, had for sale, was the logical, available site for the Government Building; he went to work and pulled the strings that put it there. Again he imagined that the south west corner of Scott and Clinton streets, which his firm, as agents, had for sale, was the best available corner for the City Hall; the City bought the corner. He and his brother happened to own two hundred acres of land in Lockport Township, and when the State of Illinois decided to build a new Penitentiary he imagined that two hundred acre farm was the best site that came within the limitations of the law. The State of Illinois now owns that land and is preparing to erect thereon the most modern, model Penitentiary in the world.
St. John's Universalist Church owned a quarter of a block on the corner of Chicago and Clinton streets, with only a small, old stone church building on it. The corner had become valuable for commercial purposes; a combination church and business block was decided on but the matter of financing the proposition was not an easy one; the society had no money and church loans were not looked upon with much favor by mortgage bankers, but a Life Insurance Company consented to make a building loan, provided a certain number of responsible men would guarantee the payment of the loan, in addition to the mortgage on the property. Guarantors were secured under an express agreement that the block should be placed in Mr. Munroe's charge, as agent, to handle; which he did from the time the building was erected to the time of his decease, and there always was the most perfect harmony between him and the Trustees. The first few years of panic and general hard times made the question of making the income pay fixed charges a difficult problem, but it was done, until better times brought better income, and soon St. John's Universalist Church will have a surplus income and be the richest church in Joliet.
For years, the territory east of the City had suffered from overflows of Spring Creek. Mr. Munroe imagined what that territory would be, with Spring Creek deepened, widened and walled. He took the lead in working up the proposition, and, with Samuel J. Drew handling the legal end, won out, despite the frantic efforts of obstructionists, the Railroads, the City, and the Highway Commissioners. As long as Spring Creek flows the new channel will be a monument to the memory of the Commissioners and their attorney.
More than twenty years ago, Mr. Munroe imagined a greater Joliet; imagined that the City Limits, fixed in '52, should be extended farther east, and took the lead in working on the proposition, A mass meeting was held, on Cass street, opposite Oakwood. The obstructionists, with their attorney, came and first tried to break up the meeting; then voted down the annexation. Mr. Munroe, as the leader of the annexationists, had to stand the brunt of the battle; stand the invective and sneers of the hired speaker until he had almost incited the mob to acts of violence, but Mr. Munroe stood, undaunted, with eyes flashing; holding himself well under control. A few of his friends, fearful of possible violence to him escorted him to his home. Politics blocked the annexation; it would have changed the political situation in the City of Joliet, and thus there is, to this day, the anomalous condition of a large part of Joliet outside the City Limits, and the U. S. census necessarily does Joliet injustice.
Mr. Munroe had the inherent virtues or faculties of kindness and friendliness; he made friends wherever he went, and he remembered them--and they remembered him. He not only considered men from his point of view but tried to put himself in their places and thus acquired a reputation for fairness and tactfulness. He treated all with respect, no matter how strenuous the contest or how wide the difference of opinion. He was broad-minded enough to concede even when he had the power to force.
He knew how to play the game of life and loved to play it with all the intensity of his nature. He had always taken a hand in politics, as a side-issue, but at one time he friends considered he would be just man to look after the interest of the Desplaines and Illinois River Valley and guard it from encroachments of the Sanitary District. He was elected Senator and served one term but could not afford to neglect his business and pull the strings for a re-election.
The final analysis of Mr. Munroe's well-rounded character and active well-spent life discloses large percentages of forcefulness, resourcefulness, broadmindedness, sincerity, fidelity, perseverance, beneficence, suavity, tact and know-how. Had he been educated for the law, this fine combination of elements would have placed him in the front ranks of the profession.
Once we were in a library looking for a certain book we had been discussing when Mr. Munroe said, with a tone of regret in his voice and a wistful look in his eyes; "I don't know much about books, I never had time to read--I wish I know what is in them."
Only those behind the curtains know of the many acts of beneficence on the part of Mr. Munroe in helping men with his "know how' to save them from sinking.
"Said one: "To serve a friend--I'd go with him to the gates of Hell."
Said the other: "I'd go in."
This the language of hyperbole--somewhat exaggerated, but it illustrates the kind of a man Mr. Munroe was, in the matter of serving his friends; he would go farther than the other man.
Mr. Munroe's last and greatest vision was The Lakes-To-The-Gulf Deep Water Way. He was not alone in seeing this vision, millions of others saw it and Mr. Munroe was one of the galaxy of leaders in rounding up the sentiment; rounding up the influence that would, in good time, make this great vision a reality. At the great Deep Water Way Convention in the fall of 1911, Mr. Munroe's friends were proud to see him among the Generals, men of his class, but they knew that his health was poor and his enthusiasm for the cause was working him far beyond his physical strength.
Since the death of Mr. Munroe, one incident of a well remembered excursion, insistently comes back. At Palm Beach the distances were too long for walking and we engaged a colored man with his bicycle and basket phaeton to wheel us around; the tour of magnificent hotels and other points of interest had been made and we started "Down the Jungle." Passing the Flagler Cemetery, an inscription over the gateway attracted our attention; it read: "There is nothing so common as death." We stopped our man and sat there, in the bright southern sun-light; scarce hearing the never-silent waves breaking on the beach of the near-by ocean, and mused and pondered on the deep and sad significance of the epigraph, so aptly chosen, for the gateway to that Silent City of Graves.
On his pages of remembrances, as his years on earth go by, one man will read, in bright letters, the episodes, the incidents and happenings of care-free, happy days of idleness on the Eastern Coast of Florida; from the antiquities of Old St. Augustine and New Smyrna, through the modernities of Daytona, Palm Beach and Miami; and the man who is yet living, will, in fancy, be again with Mr. Munroe; breathing the odors of orange groves; hear the rustling of the plumes of Palm trees, stirred by soft southern breezes; hear the ancient legends and traditions of the Minorcans, at New Smyrna; catch glimpses of the Everglades; watch the remnants of the Seminoles, loafing around the stations; on the spot, read the pathetic history of Ponce de Leon's futile expedition; be again on Biscayne Bay, and float on the Halifax and the Indian River.
William Grinton - Joliet, Illinois, March first, 1912
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The following is from an obituary clipped from an unknown newspaper:
John Monroe
John Judson Monroe, 75, of 9488 African Hill Road, Columbia, Maryland, a member of the Monroe family which has been identified with the Collinsville Herald since 1917, died on 30 Mar 1988 in Howard County Hospital, Columbia.
He had suffered from colon cancer and its complications since it was diagnosed four years ago, but took a turn for the worse two weeks ago.
He had been in government service since 1944 when he was commissioned in the U.S. Navy. After foreign language school at Colorado University, he was assigned to Washington D.C.
In 1951, he was discharged from the Navy to join the Navy Security Services (now the National Security Agency).
He held various technical and management positions there until his retirement on 25 Mar shortly before his death.
He was well enough to attend a ceremony earlier this year where he was awarded the nation's highest civilian award, the Exceptional Civilian Service Award. He had previously been awarded the Meritorious Civilian Service Award.
He graduated from Collinsville Township High School in 1929 and from Illinois College in 1933 where he earned Phi Beta Kappa honors.
He was editor of the student newspaper, the Rambler, was president of Phi Alpha Literary Society, was a varsity tennis player and was active in chorus and dramatics.
He was a former board member of the Collinsville Memorial Public Library.
Services were held at 2 p.m. on Saturday at St. John's Episcopal Church, Ellicott City, Maryland were he was registrar of the vestry.
Memorials have been requested to the memorial fund at St. John's Episcopal Church.
Born in Jacksonville, Illinois, he was the son of the late James Oliver Monroe Sr. and Freda Koch Monroe.
He and his former wife, Evalee Valline, who now lives in Arizona, had six children, all of whom survive: Mrs. Robert (Jonni) Nehus of Bowling Green, Missouri, Jud Monroe of Laguna Beach, California, Douglas Monroe of New York, Mrs. Jerry (Dierdre) Boak of Ithaca, New York, Bill Monroe of Baltimore, Missouri, and Mrs. Paul (Cindy) Bernstein of Kensington, Maryland.
In 1968, he married Patricia Anderson. They have two daughters, Caitlin, a student at Western Maryland College, and Megan, at home.
His father, the late Sen. james O. Monroe Sr., bought the Collinsville Herald in 1917. He served this district in the state legislature most of the time from 1930-1962.
When the five children of Sen. Monroe incorporated the Herald in 1954, John became a director, a post he held until the family sold the paper to the Post Corporation of Appleton, Wisconsin in 1977.
Other survivors include a brother, Karl L. Monroe of Collinsville, who still writes for the Herald; and one sister, Mrs. Ronald (Elizabeth) Stevens of Collinsville.
Two brothers, Circuit Judge James Oliver Monroe Jr., and Thomas Warren Monroe, preceded him in death.
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The following is from Massachusetts Soldiers and Sailors of the Revolutionary War via the Beckett reference.
Corporal, Capt. Samuel Farrar's co., Col. Reed's regt.; engaged Sept. 29, 1777; discharged Nov. 7, 1777; service, i mo. 10 days, at the Northward; company detached from Col. Eleazer Brooks's regt. to reinforce army under Gen. Gates.
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The following is from Massachusetts Soldiers and Sailors of the Revolutionary War via the Beckett reference.
Fifer, Capt. Jonas Richardson's co., Col. James Frye's regt.; company return [probably Oct., 1775]; enlisted April 29, 1775.
Fife Major, Col. Thomas Poor's regt.; engaged June 8, 1788; discharged Jan. 29, 1779; service, 8 mos. 4 days, at North river; also, Capt. Abraham Tyler's co., Col. Poor's regt.; pay rolls for June-Aug., 1778; also, same regt.; pay roll for Sept., 1778, dated Fort Clinton; also, same regt.; pay rolls for Jan. and Feb., 1779, dated King's Ferry.
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The following is from Massachusetts Soldiers and Sailors of the Revolutionary War via the Beckett reference.
General order dated Headquarters, Ticonderoga, Aug. 20, 1776, taken from Col. Ephraim Wheelock's Orderly Book; said Monrow appointed Quarter Master, Col. Reed's regt., Brig. Gen. Brickett's brigade, in the room of Mr. Brent.
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The following is from Massachusetts Soldiers and Sailors of the Revolutionary War via the Beckett reference.
Monro, Thomas, 2d. Private, Capt. Israel Hix's co., Col. Josiah Whitney's regt.; entered service Jul 30, 1778; discharded Sept. 10, 1778; service, 1 mo. 13 days, on an expedition against Rhode Island; company raised in Bristol Co.
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The following is from Massachusetts Soldiers and Sailors of the Revolutionary War via the Beckett reference.
Monroe, Abel. Private, (late) Capt. George King's co., Col. Benjamin Simonds's detachment of Berkshire Co. militia; muster roll dated Ticonderoga, Feb. 25, 1777; enlistment to expire March 15, 1777; also, same co. and detachment; entered service Dec. 16, 1776; discharged March 24, 1777; service, 98 days, including travel (160) miles) home; company marched to Ticonderoga.
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The following is from Massachusetts Soldiers and Sailors of the Revolutionary War via the Beckett reference.
Monroe, Abraham. Private, Capt. Thomas Marshall Baker's co., Col. Nathan Tyler's regt.; enlisted July 27, 1780, discharged Aug. 8, 1780; service, 15 days; company marched to Rhode Island on an alarm.
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The following is from Massachusetts Soldiers and Sailors of the Revolutionary War via the Beckett reference.
Monroe, Agijah. Corporal, Capt. John Hartwell's co., Col. Eleazer Brooks's regt.; service, 5 days; mileage (40 miles) allowed from Lincoln to camp and return; company called out at the time of fortifying Dorchester Heights March 4, 1776.
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The following is from Massachusetts Soldiers and Sailors of the Revolutionary War via the Beckett reference.
Monroe, Benjamin, Pembroke. Private, Capt. Eleazer hamblen's co., Col. John Thomas's regt.; muster roll dated Aug. 1 1775; enlisted May 1, 1775; service, 3 mos., 1 week, 1 day.
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The following is from Massachusetts Soldiers and Sailors of the Revolutionary War via the Beckett reference.
Monroe, Isaac. Private, Capt. John Hartwell's co., Col. Eleazer Brooks;s regt.; service, 5 days; mileage (40 miles) allowed from Lincoln to camp and return; company called out at the time of fortifying Dorchester Heights March 4, 1776.
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The following is from Massachusetts Soldiers and Sailors of the Revolutionary War via the Beckett reference.
Monroe, John. Corporal, Capt. Hezekiah Whitney's co., Col. Josiah Whitney's regt.; entered service July 22, 1777; service, 1 mo. 10 days, at the Northward; company detached from Col. Eleazer Brooks's regt. to reinforce army under Gen. Gates.
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The following is from Massachusetts Soldiers and Sailors of the Revolutionary War via the Beckett reference.
Private, Capt. John Moore's co., Col. Jonathan Reed's regt. of guards; muster rolls dated Cambridge, May 9, and June 1, 1778; enlisted April 1, 1778; service guarding toops of convention; enlistment, 3 months from April 2, 1778; also, same co. and regt.; joined April 2, 1778; service to July 3, 1778, 3 mos. 2 days, at Cambridge.
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The following is from Massachusetts Soldiers and Sailors of the Revolutionary War via the Beckett reference.
Private, Capt. John Moore's co., Col. Jonathan Reed's regt.; muster rolls dated Cambridge, May 9, and June 1, 1778; enlisted April 1, 1778; service guarding troops of convention; enlistment, 3 months from April 2, 1778; also, same co. and regt.; joined April 2, 1778; service to July 3, 1778, 3 mos. 2 days, at Cambridge.
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The following is from Massachusetts Soldiers and Sailors of the Revolutionary War via the Beckett reference.
Private, Capt. Joseph Raymond's co., Col. Israel Chapin's regt.; enlisted Oct. 18, 1799; discharged Nov. 21, 1799; service, 1 mo. 8 days, at Claverack, including 3 days (60 miles) travel home; regiment raised to reinforce Continental Army for 3 months.
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The following is from the Daniel Munro reference:
Great Grand Father, Daniel Munro, born in Scotland, hunted hangaroos in Australia for hides, fought in Sioux outbreak with MN, homsteaded in Minn., moved to Everett MN, and passed away in 1917.
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The following is from the E.W. Wait reference via the Beckett file.
"John Munroe, second child of Thomas and Mary, was born in Bristol on May 14, 1701. We know quite a bit about him and he appears to have been a good, substantial ancestor. he left a will and from this we get some idea of his property and we learn the married names of his daughters.
"John married Hannah Rosbotham on April 29, 1728 in St. Michael's Church, Bristol. (This church was burned in May 1778 by British soldiers on a pillaging expedition from the island of Rhode Island.) They had a large family, their first eleven children being born in Bristol, their last two in Rehoboth, to which town they moved between December 1748 and October 1750. A deed dated February 20, 1750 shows that John bought sixty-three acres of land in Rehoboth from Jeremiah Allen for '1180 pounds of ye old tenor.'
"John Munroe's will is dated April 2, 1789 - he is 'of Rehoboth' and he calls himself 'yeoman.' He appoints his youngest son, Joseph, executor. To his wife Hannah he leaves all his household furniture, half of his dwelling -house, a quarter of an acre of land for a garden west of the house; also a cow and a swine, 'both to be kept for her winter and summer;' also 12 bushels of Indian corn yearly, 4 bushels of rye, 8 pounds of good sheep's wool, two pounds of flax, 50 pounds of beef, and 8 cords of firewood, 'brought to the door and cut fit for the fire.'
"John's will also leaves to daughter Comfort Bowen 27 pounds; to son Nathan 8 shillings; to son Stephen 30 pounds; to son Rosbotham 3 pouunds; to son Benjamin 15 pounds; to son John 45 pounds; to heirs of deceased daughter Elizabeth Carpenter 15 pounds; to heirs of deceased daughter Mary Fuller 15 pounds; to heirs of deceased daughter Alice Horton 15 pounds; to son Thomas 18 pounds; to daughter Hannah 30 pounds; and to granddaughter Patience Short 'for the love I bare to her and Services She as Done for me' 3 pounds. Son Joseph is to have all the estate, both real and personal, not otherwise disposed of. John died on April 18, 1793 and his will was probated the following 6th of August.
"In the first United States Census, taken in 1790, we find John Munroe of Rehoboth with a household consisting of one male of sixteen (himself) and two females - his wife Hannah and probably his daughter Hannah, as she was unmarried when he made his will in 1789 and was very likely still living at home.
"John Munroe appears in the tax lists for the years 1759, 1765 and 1769 as printed in Richard LeBaron Bowen's splendid work EARLY REHOBOTH. In 1759 he was taxed 12 pounds on his real estate and 6 pounds, 9 shillings on his personal estate. That he was a prosperous farmer is shown by the fact that in 1765 his tax jumped to 30 pounds on real and 13 pounds, 1 shilling on personal property; it was practically the same in 1769.
"John was sixty-three years old when he made the acquaintance of young Hector Munro. In February 1764, Hector, accompanied by a relative named Donald, turned up in Rehoboth and wrote a letter to a cousin back home in the Concord-Lexington area. He stated that he and Donald had been unable to find work in Boston, so had started for New York.
"'We marched from Boston,' wrote Hector, 'that very same day and came to Providence and as I was very curios inquiring after my Relations and Kinsmen, I was informed that there was Great Many of them in Rehoboth & Bristol within six mile of Providence & that same hour we marched of in order to find them out which we did that same night with one Nathan Munroe as stately a man as ever you seied of the name and he keepted us with him Two days and the Third he convoyed us to his father's house a good stately old man that hath great deal of Regard for his relations and he keepted us four days and the fift he and Nathan his son went along with us to convoy us in order to show us the rest of our relations down at Bristol and the very first house we came to was Doctor Munro, Captain Thomas Munro's son at Concord.' (Doctor Munro was born in Concord in 1731, a grandson of the first William Murnoe of Lexington; but had moved from there to Bristol before 1762.)
"It was providential for us that Boston had offered no employment to Hector, for otherwise he might never have gotten to Rehoboth and written the letter which adds proof of the relationship between the Bristol and Lexington Munroe families. (Incidentally, Hector went no further to seek his fortune; he married a Rehoboth girl and had several children born in Rehoboth and in 1776 he made his will because he was going into the Army.)"
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Ref 3, p. 26 says John first married Ruth Bowen [9683]. Since this marriage is almost never mentioned in the many references available for John, there is some doubt about its authenticity. Other references (i.e. Rockwell) say that Ruth was the second wife of John [29187].
The Stotler reference says that John sailed on the sloop "Providence" with John Paul Jones.
John and his family moved from Bristol, Rhode Island to Rehoboth between Dec 1748 and Oct 1750. There he bought 63 acres (ref 1) of land from Jeremiah Allen for 1180 pounds. Ref 2 says it was 69 and a half acres and that it may have been part of the land left to Hannah's mother. This land was in Rehoboth, Bristol County, Massachusetts until an 1812 boundary change set it in the rural town of Seekonk. It was situated a short distance west of the Rehoboth/Seekonk boundary, south of Winthrop Street (later Highway 44) and southeast of the intersection of Lake and Lincoln Streets. The family built a house to live in and some out buildings on the property. The farm produced grain and supported cattle, pigs and sheep.
John was a charitable and hospitable man, a patriarch who valued family connections. A letter dated Feb 1764 gives an account written by Hector Munro, a young soldier, a descendant of William Munro of Lexington, who had been recently discharged from the King's Army after fighting in the French War for King James. Hector tells of his travels to seek work in New York and Boston and to locate his "kinsmen" in Rehoboth and Bristol. During this time Hector met John, who was then almost 63. Hector was delighted by the elder Munro and described him as "a good stately old man and a man that hath a great deal of regard for his relations."
His will, in which he calls himself "yeoman," is dated 2 Apr 1789 (Beckett says 2 Apr 1781), and contains a wealth of genealogical information. He left the family farm to his son, Joseph, with the stipulation that Joseph care for his mother in the family home for the rest of her years.
He was buried in the family cemetery on the farm. His grave stone reads: "The Sweet Remembrance of the Just/Shall Flurish when they sleep in Dust."
References:
(2) "Brown Munro, Sr.: A Life in Time (1829 - 1909)" by Dr. Nancy Brown
Brooker Bowers - Ames, Iowa (1993) - p. 11, 21-24
(3) Clan Munro files - Yard, Prof. F. L. Dixon - Correspondence with Prof. F.
L. Dixon Yard - 1991-1992 - p. 22, 26, 30, 43
(4) Clan Munro files - Yard, Prof. F. L. Dixon - Early Rhode Island Vital
Records - collected by Prof. F. L. Dixon Yard - p. 15
The May reference says that John [37] was the son of John [65] instead of his grandson.
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The following is from the Johnson reference:
Edward served as Dallas' first district Clerk from 1850 to 1874, was an initial member of Tannehill Masonic Lodge, and was one of the first stewards, class leaders and Sunday School superintendents at First Methodist Church . During the Civil War he was elected Captain of Company C in the Eighteenth Texas Cavalry. Edward's brother Isham also served in Company C but died of disease in 1862.
After the war, Lucy and Edward bought and sold land in Dallas. In 1865, Lucy conveyed to Edward the approximately sixty acres containing Browder's Spring. In 1871, the Texas Legislature passed a bill granting right-of-way for the Southern Pacific Railroad with a short rider requiring that in pass within one mile of Broder's Spring, thus assuring the growth of Dallas.
In the early 1870's Edward Browder developed Browder's Addition, a fashionable suburb southeast of Dallas, between town and Browder's Spring. In 1872 the city named Browder Street after Edward. The area near Browder's Spring was established as the first city park in honor of the 1876 national centennial, and a portion remains today as Old City Park.
Edward Browder died in 1878. The next year, his son, Pleasant Browder, sold Browder's Spring to a private company, which delivered water to Dallas customers. The spring was later sold to the city. Dallas used water from the spring for about eight years before the town's need outgrew the spring's capacity. The spring was reactivated for a short time during the long drought of 1908-1913.
Edward belonged to the Methodist Church.
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The following is from the Johnson reference:
Joseph was a bachelor and obviously one who provoked trouble since he was killed at the age of 27. "Tip" is buried in Alexandria, Virginia on the edge of the Methodist Protestant Cemetery - actually to the left of the gates to the National Cemetery. An item from the local paper, later the Alexandria Gazette, reads as follows:
LOCAL ITEMS
HOMICIDE-Yesterday morning about 11 o'clock, Jos. E. Monroe and Wm. Howard, who had fought on the 8th inst., when Howard was severely beaten by Monroe, met in the road leading from the Little River Turnpike to the Theological Seminary, about half a mile from Padgett's toll-gate, and renewed the fight, and while both were down, Monroe who was on top, was shot through the heart by a ball from a pistol in the hands of Howard, and expired in less than five minutes.
A coroner's jury was summoned, and the evidence elicited was to the following effect, viz: That a warrent had been obtained by Howard against Monroe, for the beating on the 8th inst. and that yesterday was the day set for the trial. Both the parties met at Catt's Hotel, West End, where the trial was to have taken place before Justice Padgett: but Monroe objecting to having Padgett sit on the case, Justice Daniel Kincheloe, who happened to be present, was proposed, but was objected to by Howard, when Justice Kincheloe continued the case, and Howard left for home; and Monroe, by taking another road, got into the road that Howard was traveling and waited for him, and on his approach, pulled him off his horse and got him down, and while down, Howard discharged three barrels of a revolver at him, one only taking effect near the heart, killing him in a few minutes.
Two young men who witnessed the affray, each named Howard, gave the evidence upon which the jury rendered the following verdict: That Joseph E. Monroe came to his death by a ball from a pistol in the hands of William Howard, which, in our opinion, was used in self defence.
The body of the deceased was brought to the residence of his brother, Harrison L. Monroe, in this city, from whence the funeral will take place this morning.
Howard gave himself up to authorities, but on the rendition of the above verdict, was discharged.
Obituary notice: In memory of Joseph E. Monroe of Loudoun County, Virginia, late of Alexandria, Virginia, who departed this life 28 Mar 1860, in teh 27th year of his age.
The Alexandria Gazette of 31 Mar 1860: "Re-arrested Wm. Howard who killed Joseph E. Monroe at West End on Wed. last and discharged by the corner was re-arrested Thursday last taken to Fairfax Court House to await examination.
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The following is from the Johnson reference:
Lucy Jane Monroe Browder, a niece of U.S. President James Monroe, was the matriarch of the "Dallas Browders" who were important in the early life of both Dallas and our church, The first United Methodist Church of Dallas. Old City Park, Dallas was originally their homestead and its productive spring provided the earliest source of water for the village, other than individual wells.
Lucy and her sons, Edward and Isham, arrived in Texas in 1845, from Missouri. They first owned land in northern Ellis County but by 1850 lived in Dallas County.
Edward served as Dallas' first district Clerk from 1850 to 1874, was an initial member of Tannehill Masonic Lodge, and was one of the first stewards, class leaders and Sunday School superintendents at First Methodist Church . During the Civil War he was elected Captain of Company C in the Eighteenth Texas Cavalry. Edward's brother Isham also served in Company C but died of disease in 1862.
After the war, Lucy and Edward bought and sold land in Dallas. In 1865, Lucy conveyed to Edward the approximately sixty acres containing Browder's Spring. In 1871, the Texas Legislature passed a bill granting right-of-way for the Southern Pacific Railroad with a short rider requiring that in pass within one mile of Broder's Spring, thus assuring the growth of Dallas.
In the early 1870's Edward Browder developed Browder's Addition, a fashionable suburb southeast of Dallas, between town and Browder's Spring. In 1872 the city named Browder Street after Edward. The area near Browder's Spring was established as the first city park in honor of the 1876 national centennial, and a portion remains today as Old City Park.
Edward Browder died in 1878. The next year, his son, Pleasant Browder, sold Browder's Spring to a private company, which delivered water to Dallas customers. The spring was later sold to the city. Dallas used water from the spring for about eight years before the town's need outgrew the spring's capacity. The spring was reactivated for a short time during the long drought of 1908-1913.
Lucy is buried in the Old Dallas Cemetery in downtown Dallas - (Masonic and Odd Fellows Cemetery).
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Ref: Clan Munro files - Irvine, James, Jr.
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The following is from the membership application of Kerry Chapman Gryczynsla:
Oliver settled in West Greenwich, Rhode Island, and was for a time in Richmond, Rhode Island. He married Mary Munro 13 May 1736. They had eight children. One was Anna who married George Gardner, Jr. The sons were Oliver, Hezekiah, Nicholas Nd Gideon, and grandsons Joseph and Benjamin, all of Pownal. Oliver Myers, Sr., died 29 Aug 1769 and his widow, Mary came to Pownal and lived with her children. The early Myers families seem to have always lived near Pownal Center. One family owned the west part of the school lot where the late George Myers farm is located.
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The following is from the Monroe Family Bible:
«i»Martha Monroe daughter of the above George & Nancy married to a young Irish man named James Roony the 17th. day of June 1828 in Hundingdon County by Walter B. _____ Esq. (a kind of a runawmatch this)
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The following is from the Monroe Johnson reference:
Adamantine Johnson contributed much to Chariton County history.
He was born in Lincoln County, Kentucky on 17 May 1824. In 1835, his parents and family moved to Howard County, Missouri, in a part that was later incorporated into Chariton County. In 1848, Adamantine married Pocahontas Rebecca Cabell (a direct descendant of Pocahontas). They had eight children.
In 1856, he was the first president of the first bank started in Brunswick. He was the first elder of the First Christian Church in Brunswick. According to the 1860 Slave Roll, he owned 7 slaves.
Adamantine Johnson and Thomas E. Gilliam were the first manufacturers of chewing tobacco. In 1868, he was the land dealer who sold Charles Ingall and Henry Quiner (Laura Ingalls Wilder's father and uncle) 80 acres of land each in Chariton County for $900 each just a few miles from his farm near Rothville. He was a major stockholder and on the first board of directors for two railroad lines being built during the 1860's and 1870's (Chariton and Randolph Railroad Company and Chillicothe and Brunswick Railroad Company).
In 1868, he built a brick federal-style home for his family on a large farm (1000+ acres) he purchased in Chariton County near Rothville, Missouri. It was completed around 1872. The following is an excerpt from a local history book:
The Adamantine Johnson house was better known in the area as the Charles Waugh home. Mr. Johnson was a successful business man who accumulated property and wealth very rapidly through merchandising, farming, stock raising, and tobacco farming. he owned several large farms near Brunswick. About 1868, he moved to rural Rothville where he built the two story house, the showplace of the community at a cost of $7000.
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The following is from the Roeser reference:
«i»Joshua Monroe entered the service of the United States in New London, CT on 1 Jan 1780. He enlisted to serve in the navel service on board the Continental Frigate Trumball carrying 24- 12 Pounders and 8-6 Pounders, commanded by Captain James Nickerson, John Mailering, 1st Lieutenant, Jacob White, 2d Lieutenant, Daniel Star, 3d Lieutenant, David Bill, 4th Lieutenant, Gilbert Solderstill Captain of Marines, Samuel Hand, sailing master, Alexander Piggins, Adam Preroder, Jasper Giffing, 1st mates with a crew of 162.
On the first day of May 1780, the Trumball sailed from New London on a blockading voyage against the British. They sailed south and east of the Bahama Islands. On the first day of June, and at a latitude of about 30 degrees, southeast of the Bahamas we fell in with the Birtish ship Watt of Liverpool carrying 36 guns. The engagement lasted 4 hours and 30 minutes, 42 men of the Trumball were killed or wounded. Joshua Sisis and David Bill were killed and Brad Lesset, David Star and Alexander Aocament were wounded. The Watt withdrew and the Trumball being very much injured was unable to give her chase.
The next morning we started back for Boston, the ports of Philadelphia and New York being in British hands. We arrived in Boston the latter part of June. When the frigate was repaired and loaded with artillery stored for the army, we sailed in September from Boston for Philadelphia where we deposited our load. The Trumball then went on sailing in the company of Continental Frigate Delim off the east coast of the states, guarding the coastline until the last of December 1780 when she returned to Philadelphia where Joshua left the frigate on the 1st of january 1781 and went on board the ship Morning Star sailing to New London where he completed his one year enlistment.
He lived in New London for sixteen years. (Extract from pension application). June 25 1773 Joshua's Grandfather John was appointed guardian in the New London Probate Court. Joshua and Sarah left New London about 1799 and settled in Otsego County NY. Going with them were Susannah Maples Ranson and her husband and David Maples and his wife Lois.
Joshua sold Property of his wife in Montville CT, 17 March 1800. Joshua was listed as head of household in the 1800 Otsego County Federal census. 15 Oct 1800 Joshua purchased property from William Cooper. On 8 September 1812 Joshua sold the same parcel to Robert Bourne for $1800. The same day Joshua purchased a 600 acre parcel in Tioga County New York from Robert Bourn, for $2400, Witnesses: George Bourn, George Bourne Jr., and Joshua Monroe Jr. On 2 Jun 1814 Joshua sold 120 acres of this land to his son David. Witnesses: David Fairchild, Sinson Fairchild. On 17 May 1816 Joshua sold 100 acres of this land to his son Joshua. Witnesses: David Monroe and his wife Polly Monroe.
Joshua made a will in Tioga County NY, 19 March 1841 which was probated 6 March 1848. In the probate file his heirs were identified as Belinda Gillet, wife of Archippus Gillet of Evansville, IN; David Monroe of Seneca County NY; Pardon Monroe of Barton, and the seven children of the deceased Joshua Monroe, son of the testator. The names of Oliver Monroe and Edwin Monroe were the only ones known to the court; they lived in Vanderburgh County IN.«/i»
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References:
(1) "Charles Monroe (1823-1873) of Posey, Vanderburgh & Gibson County, Indiana
- His Ancestors and Descendants" by Kendyl K. Monroe - (1997) - p. 11-17
Compiled and edited by Allen Alger, Genealogist, Clan Munro Association, USA | Monroe, Joshua (I37370)
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The following is from the Spencer reference:
«i»...in 1850 he«/i» [Abraham] «i»was at Bridgewater, NY with an Adeline, born about 1813 in NY probably his daughter.
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The following is from the Spencer reference:
«i»Dr. Guilford believes that a possible child of Lemuel and Anna (Toozer) Monroe was a Lemuel born about 1786 resided in 1850 at Vienna, Oneida Co., N.Y. a shoemaker with no family. Also "that in 1790 he was at Canaan, Columbia co., with brother Abel. His children by his first wife 6 in number according to the genealogy are unknown although it seems unreasonable that a marriage of 7 years could produce 6 children. We believe that the Lemuel in Oneida Co. in 1850 is one and include him tentatively. In 1850 Lemuel, Sr was living at Howell, Livingston Co., MI with his son Francis, he now 92 and called "Samuel" by the census taker. There is no probate for him in Livingston Co.,MI.
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The following is from the Spencer reference:
«i»Elisha Corey died in Groton in 1821. There is no entry for him in the Groton vital records, but I found a will listed in the index for the Middlesex County probate records. «/i»
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Compiled and edited by Allen Alger, Genealogist, Clan Munro Association, USA | Cory, Elisha (I7718)
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The following is from the Spencer reference:
«i»Jenny Bommarito says in e mail October 26, 2006 that he «/i»[Isaac] «i»died in 1826 and his wife «/i»[Mary] «i»went to live with a child in Michigan.«/i»
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Compiled and edited by Allen Alger, Genealogist, Clan Munro Association, USA | Sweetser, Mary (I665)
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The following is from the Spencer reference:
«i»Mary probably died in Groton sometime between 1800 and 1810, because there is a record of the marriage of Elisha Corey to Mrs. Abigail Green of Pepperell on 31 May 1810. The latter is probably Abigail Ames, b. in Groton on 28 Nov 1763 to Amos Ames and Abigail Bulkley. She was the widow of William Green, who lived in Pepperell but died in the nearby town of Brookline NH on 29 Nov 1809.
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The following is from the Spencer reference:
«i»Per Guilford p. 63 could be child of Philip.
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Compiled and edited by Allen Alger, Genealogist, Clan Munro Association, USA | Monroe, Theodore (I60505)
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The following is from the Spencer reference:
«i»probably the William whose intention to marry Zuba Parker was published in Dunstable MA on 20 May 1809«/i».
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Ref: Lexington Munroes, 2nd ed. 13-86-5
Compiled and edited by Allen Alger, Genealogist, Clan Munro Association, USA | Cory, William (I7723)
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