Greene County AlArchives Biographies.....Monroe, William O. 1835 - 
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Author: Smith & De Land, publishers

    WILLIAM O. MONROE, was born at Athens, Ga., in 1835, and came to Alabama in
1843 with his parents, who settled at Hinton's Grove, Greene County.

    His father was John Monroe, of South Carolina, and his mother Emily, a
daughter of John Paschal, of Georgia.

    William in all spent about five years at school. He has had an unbroken
connection with the press since 1846, barring short intervals which he spent at
school.

    It was in 1846 that he entered the office of The Eutaw Whig, where he served
an apprenticeship of five years. This journal was founded by Houston and Davis
in 1840, but was owned by the former at the time young Monroe's connection with
it commenced. In 1859, when he had attained his twenty-fourth year, young Monroe
purchased a half interest in the Whig. He purchased the Observer in 1861, and
during the same year it was consolidated with the Whig, under the name of the
Eutaw Whig and Observer. The new paper was conducted by Anderson and Monroe, it
seems, until after the war.

    Mr. Monroe was in the war a short time as lieutenant of cavalry in Clanton's
brigade, one of the most noted organizations of its kind that took part in the
great civil strife. Owing to ill health he was compelled to give up his command,
which he did by resigning.

    He continued in copartnership with Anderson in management and conduct of The
Whig and Observer during the war, and after that he became sole proprietor, a
relation he has ever since maintained. This journal is a weekly, Democratic in
politics, and has a circulation of 800 subscribers. It is one of the most
influential papers of its class in the State, and has always enjoyed a liberal
degree of prosperity. Its utterances have, throughout its course, been dictated
by .honest convictions; its intentions characterized by honesty itself, and its
career has been a constant labor to build up the material and highest interests
of the county with which it has been identified for so long a time.

    W. O. Monroe was married to Jane, a daughter of the Hev. John DuBois, of
Greensboro. Ala., in 1860. Rev. DuBois was for half a century a minister of the
gospel. He was the inventor of the famous Du Bois cotton-gin, one of the finest
machines of its kind ever made in this country.

    There are but two of the children, born to this union, living: Jane and Louise.

    Mr. Monroe and family are all members of the church, and he himself is a
Royal-Arch Mason.


Additional Comments:
Extracted from:

Northern Alabama: Historical and Biographical
Birmingham, Ala.: Smith and De Land
1888

PART III.
HISTORICAL RESUME OF THE VARIOUS COUNTIES IN THE STATE.
COTTON BELT.


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