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			SAMUEL & MARTHA (PERKINS) MONR0E

	Samuel Monroe was born in Essex Co., N. Y., Feb. 11, 1820.  His father, Royal Monroe, 
came from New Hampshire, and settled in Crown Point soon after 1800.  He raised a family of eight
children, was a soldier in the war of 1812, and in his latter days came to Montcalm County and 
lived with the subject of this sketch, where he died in January, 1873, in his ninetieth year.  He
never accumulated much property.  As soon as the boys were old enough they went out to work.  
When Samuel was twenty years of age he bought his time, for which he paid seventy-five dollars.  
In June, 1841, he was married to Miss Martha Perkins, daughter of William Perkins, a well-to-do 
farmer of Crown Point, Essex Co., N. Y., where he settled when a young man.  Mr. Monroe remained 
in Essex County five years after he was married, working at such jobs as came in his way.  By 
this means he had saved some four hundred dollars.  He then took his wife and two children and 
started for the far West.  Arriving in Macomb County, he purchased seventy-five acres of 
heavily-timbered land near Mount Clements, where he remained nine years.  These were nine weary 
years of pioneer life.  His money only made a partial payment on the land.  To procure the 
necessaries of life he was obliged to go out to work by the day.  To add to their discomfiture 
was sickness; frequently all four of the children were sick at the same time.  Notwithstanding 
these drawbacks, he paid for his land, made comfortable improvements, and in 1855 sold out for 
eighteen hundred dollars and came to Eureka and purchased eighty acres of land, where he now 
lives.  Here this pioneer couple have diligently worked for a quarter of a century, and have 
added other lands, until they now have more than three hundred acres of land with large 
improvements, have raised a family of five children, and accumulated an ample competency by 
farming, which has been the business of their life.  He is a member of the grange, and treasurer 
of the subordinate grange. 



This biography is taken from "HISTORY OF IONIA AND MONTCALM COUNTIES, MICHIGAN" 
by John S. Schenck. Philadelphia:  D. W. Ensign & Co., 1881.  Page 403, Eureka.