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E. N. Monroe, dealer in drugs and stationery, and one of Unionville’s most enterprising business men, was born at Chillicothe, Ross Co., Ohio, in 1855, and is an only child of Edwin and Mary (Hard) Monroe. The father was born at Charleston, Mass., in 1786, and was a soldier in the War of 1812. He died in Putnam County, Mo., in 1868. The mother was the second wife of Edwin Monroe, and was a native of Vermont. She died in1885. The paternal grandfather of our subject was a soldier in the Revolutionary War, who lived and died in Massachusetts. E. N. Monroe moved to Putnam County with his parents when about ten years old, and was reared in Elm Township upon a farm until 1870, and there accepted a clerkship in a drug store at Unionville which he filled about five years. He then clerked in a drug store at Council Bluffs, Iowa, until September, 1876, and then embarked in that occupation on his own account at his present place of business on the northeast corner of the public square. He is the owner of a two-story 24x70 foot building, in which he conducts his business, keeping two clerks actively employed. In 1878 he married Elizabeth Waggoner, a native of Pennsylvania, by whom one son, John, and a daughter, who died in infancy, were born. The mother of these children died in 1881, and Mr. Monroe afterward married Flora, a sister of his first wife, by whom one child, Octavia, has been born.