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 420 MONK. MONROE. on the business to an extent that in those days was considered large. When the introduction of labor-saving machinery removed the manufacture of boots and shoes to the province of the fac- tory rather than the shop, Mr. Monk accepted the position of foreman, continu- ing in this business until about six years ago, when he entered upon the manufac- ture of shoe-heels as a specialty. Mr. Monk was united in marriage, April 8, 185 1, in Stoughton, to Lucinda Fuller Cole, of that town. The fruits of this marriage have been ten children : Mary Loise, Charles Hiram, Jacob Francis, John Harvey, Cora Estelle, Sarah Abigail, Na- than Adelbert, George A., Hattie Augusta, and Wesley Elias Monk. At the first election of Brockton under its city charter, Mr. Monk was elected from ward 3 a member of the council. He served three years on the board, then three years as alderman. HIRAM A. MONK. Mr. Monk is a highly respected member of the Masonic fraternity, in which he takes a great interest as member and offi- cer. He has been the worshipful master of St. George Lodge, F. & A. M., of Brock- ton, and has served as a director in the Campello Co-operative Bank for the last twelve years. He is a member of the Legion of Honor, having been made com- mander of Council No. 16, Brockton. In early life Mr. Monk joined a temper- ance organization, was a Son of Temper- ance, and is now a member of Temple Lodge, No. 112, I. O. G. T., Campello, and is one of its trustees. He is an unflinch- ing foe to rum, and a friend of prohibi- tion, believing that the cause is best sub- served by working through the Republican party. In 1864 Mr. Monk joined the ranks of the 58th regiment, Massachusetts volun- teers, and served during the remainder of the war, receiving an honorable discharge. He subsequently became a member of Post 72, G. A. R., Stoughton, and has served as an officer. Mr. Monk is a member and trustee of the Campello Methodist Episcopal church. MONROE, GEORGE H., son of Harris and Rebecca (Ellis) Monroe, was born in Dedham, Norfolk county, on the 18th of August, 1826. His paternal grandfather was Nathan Monroe, one of the minute men at the battle of Lexington, in 1775. When he was ten years old his family moved to Wrentham, where he was edu- cated in the common schools and at Day's Academy. When sixteen years of age he came to Boston to learn the printing trade, in the office of S. N. Dickinson, and became a proof-reader a year later, reading in Dickinson's office, in the New England Stereotype Foundry, and at the University Press, Cambridge, till 1S59, when he pur- chased the " Norfolk County Journal," in Roxbury, which he owned and conducted for nearly ten years. In iS64-'65 he was elected a represen- tative to the General Court, and in 1869- '■jo-'-}i was honored by his constituents with a seat in the Senate. Mr. Monroe was a Whig in politics up to 1854, when he joined the Republican party, and was a delegate from Dedham to its first state convention. He supported Horace Greeley in 1872. He was the Democratic and Liberal candidate for secretary of state in 1S72 and '75. To-day he is in the front rank of independent Republicans. He was for years connected with the school committee in Roxbury and Boston, and has for many years been correspond- ent of the " Hartford Courant " over the name of " Templeton." This connection was suggested by a friend, another famous litterateur, W. S. Robinson, known more familiarly as "Warrington." Mr. Monroe has made the nom de plume " Templeton " of equal prominence in the literary world.