Herkimer County NyArchives Biographies.....Monroe, Thomas M. 
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Author: Hardin & Willard

Monroe, Thomas M., Herkimer, was born in Utica, N.Y.  His father came to this 
country from Scotland when the subject of this sketch was but a child and 
settled in Utica.  Thomas M. Monroe was one of twelve children.  After 
receiving an excellent education in the public schools of this vicinity, he 
engaged in the manufacture of cotton in Greene county until the outbreak of 
the war when he entered the naval service under Dupont at Hilton Head.  In 
1864 he re-enlisted in the Sixty-First Massachusetts, Company D, and 
participated in many battles and skirmishes.  He was mustered out in June, 
1865.  Mr.Monroe is an active and prominent member of the G.A.R. and also of 
the Masonic fraternity.  He is engaged in the wholesale bottling traffic, his 
goods being sold throughout the State.  His wife was Miss Amanda J. Lewis of 
this State.  He has two sons, both engaged with him in business.

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source:
History of Herkimer County, New York : illustrated with portraits of many of 
its citizens
edited by George A. Hardin ; assisted by Frank H. Willard
Syracuse, New York : D. Mason, 1893
550 p., 276 p. : ill., maps, ports.


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