George Mason Monroe, M.D., Rapides Parish, Louisiana
Submitted by: DeAnn Monroe Steely

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Source: History of Louisiana, number 13, volume III, page 99
George M. Monroe, M.D.

Through a long period of forty years Dr. George M. Monroe has been active 
in the work of the medical profession. His home is in Glenmora in Rapides 
Parish and in that locality his name stands for the highest standards of 
professional and civic ability.

He was born in Alabama in 1858, son of John A. and Sarah (Levi) Monroe, 
his father a native of North Carolina and his mother a native of Maryland. 
The grandparents of Dr. Monroe were natives of Scotland. John A. Monroe 
ived in Alabama for thirty years, coming to Louisiana in 1865 and followed 
the trade of tailor, also was a farmer and planter and for a number of years 
a local minister of the Methodist Church. He served four years in the Civil 
war, being a second lieutenant. He was a democrat in politics. Of eleven 
children only two are now living, George M. and Jefferson Davis. The latter 
is a truck farmer at Tioga, Louisiana.

George M. Monroe grew up on his father’s farm, attended country schools at 
Sugartown and Hineston and from the age of nineteen was entirely dependent 
upon his own exertions. He earned the money that put him through the Alabama 
Medical College at Mobile, from which he graduated in 1884. For eight years 
he practiced in Rapides Parish, and then for five years was engaged in the 
work of his profession in New Mexico. On returning to Louisiana he took a 
post-graduate course at Tulane University during 1897-98 and in the latter 
year located at Glenmora, where for a quarter of a century he has been busy 
in general practice. More recently he has been limiting his practice, the 
great amount of riding and driving having entailed heavy demands upon his 
health and strength. He has been local railway surgeon for a number of years 
and is a member of the Railway Surgeons Association.

Doctor Monroe married, in 1889, Miss Martha Thielemann, a native of Sugartown, 
Louisiana. Seven children were born to their marriage and five are now living: 
Ada, wife of E.O. Pringle, a merchant at Glenmora; Harold L., a railway clerk 
at Portland, Arkansas; Mildred, wife of Homer C. Lee, a lawyer at Dallas, Texas; 
Gladys, a school teacher; and Grace, at home.

Doctor Monroe has taken a prominent part in Masonry, being affiliated with the 
Lodge, the Royal Arch Chapter, the Council, the Scottish Rite Consistory and the 
Shrine and has served in the offices of master, high priest and thrice illustrious 
master. Both he and his wife are members of the Eastern Star, and he is a democrat 
in politics. During his residence in New Mexico he served a term as county 
commissioner.