Charles Edwin Monroe

1857 - 1931  (74 years)

• Name	Charles Edwin Monroe
  Born	28 Mar 1857	Oberlin, Lorain Co., Ohio, USA
  Gender	Male
  Died	12 May 1931	Oberlin, Lorain Co., Ohio, USA
  Person ID	I18788	Munro
  Last Modified	27 May 2001

  
  

  Father	James Wilbur Munroe,   b. 18 Jul 1821, Plainfield, Windham Co., Connecticut, USA ,   d. 7 Jul 1898, Oberlin, Lorain Co., Ohio, USA  (Age 76 years)
  Mother	Elizabeth Maxwell,   b. 14 Aug 1825, Mansfield, Richland Co., Ohio, USA ,   d. 20 Feb 1862, Oberlin, Lorain Co., Ohio, USA  (Age 36 years)
  Married	19 Jan 1847	Richland Co., Ohio, USA
  Family ID	F5859	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Marie Jussen,   b. 12 Sep 1861, Watertown, Jefferson Co., Wisconsin, USA ,   d. 4 May 1947, Oberlin, Lorain Co., Ohio, USA  (Age 85 years)
  Married	29 Nov 1924	Chicago, Cook Co., Illinois, USA
  Last Modified	20 Jan 2009
  Family ID	F8588	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  Charles was enrolled in the preparatory department of Oberlin College 1870-1773. He entered Oberlin as a freshman in 1873 and graduated in 1877 with the degree of Bachelor of Arts. When the Oberlin chapter of Phi Beta Kappa Society was established in 1907, he was one of three members of his class elected to membership. He received the degree of Bachelor of Laws from Michigan in 1880, and began the practice of law in Elyria, Ohio that year. From 1882-1884, he practiced in the Court of Alabama Claims in Washington, D.C. In 1884, he settled in Milwaukee, Wisconsin and continued the practice of law in that city until his retirement in 1930. He was admitted to practice in the U.S. Supreme Court in 1885. From 1889 to 1897, he served as Secretary and Chief Examiner of the Milwaukee Fire and Police Commission, and in 1895, he was made Secretary and Chief Examiner of the Milwaukee City Service Commission. Charles joined the First Congregational Church in Oberlin in 1870 and joined the Plymouth congregational Church in Milwaukee in Sep 1886. For the last six years of his life in Milwaukee, he was attorney for the Protestant Home for the Aged. He was a trust officer in the National Exchange Bank. Early in life, he became greatly interested in Botany and Geology and was regarded as an authority in their local aspects, writing valuable papers on botanical subjects and gathering a large botanical collection which he presented to the Public Museum of Milwaukee. He married Marie Jussen in 1924 when he was 67 years old. She was the daughter of Edmund Jussen and a niece of the famous educator and reformer, Carl Schurz. She spent a good deal of her young life abroad where her father was in the American diplomatic service in Germany and Austria. She studied law and became a prominant attorney in Chicago, Illinois. After her marriage, Marie moved to Milwaukee, Wisconsin with Charles. She died in the Allen Hospital after a long illness. She was a member of First Church. They had no children. Charles and his wife moved to Oberlin, Ohio in the spring of 1930. His health gradually failed and he died of heart failure at his home on Forest Street on 12 May 1931. He was well-read, upright, just, and incorruptible. In his final illness, he maintained his courage and cheerfulness and was always the perfect gentleman, more considerate for others than for himself. Ref: Clan Munro files - Guilford, Dr. Joan S.