(PAPERS, 1875-1936)
BIOGRAPHY
Charles Edwin Monroe (1857-1931), son of Oberlin College Professor James Monroe, received his AB from Oberlin (1877) and his law degree from the University of Michigan (1880). He practiced law for E.W. Metcalf before the Court of Alabama Claims in Washington, D.C., 1882-84, and then settled in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, where he practiced until retirement in 1930. From 1889-1897 he was Secretary and Chief Examiner of the Milwaukee Fire and Police Commission, and in 1895 he was made Secretary and Chief Examiner of the Milwaukee City Service Commission. An interest he avidly pursued was that of collecting botanical specimens. He was a member of the Wisconsin Natural History Society and he gave his large collection of specimens to the Public Museum of Milwaukee. He also wrote on botanical subjects. Monroe was married in 1924 to Miss Marie Jussen.
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