Person:Andrew Monroe (8)

Monroe, Andrew (b.?;d. Louisville, January?1868) Jefferson County judge. Monroe served as Jefferson County judge from September 6,1858, until September 2 1866. He was Jefferson County’s second judge. He was also an attorney in private practice before being elected county judge. Monroe served on the Louisville City Council from the Fifth Ward from 1856 until 1857. He was the president of the Board of Councilmen in 1857. On January 22,1868, Monroe disappeared from his residence on Walnut (Muhammad Ali Blvd.) between Fifteenth and Sixteenth Streets and was not seen again until four months later when his body was found floating in the Louisville and Portland Canal. He was believed to have accidentally drowned. Monroe is buried in Frankfort where he had family. See History of the Ohio Falls Cities and their Counties The Encyclopedia of Louisville By John E. Kleber (Cleveland 1882] [4]

1. ↑ History of the Ohio Falls cities and their counties: with illustrations and biographical sketches. (Cleveland, Ohio: L.A. Williams & Co., 1882)
   334.

   ... The next day (January 27th 1868) Judge Andrew Monroe, of the city, strangely disappeared, and nothing more was heard of him until four months afterwards, when his body was found floating in the canal. He is believed to have been accidentally drowned.

2. ↑ Metzmeier, Kurt X. Writing the Legal Record: Law Reporters in Nineteenth-Century Kentucky (Kentucky, University Press of Kentucky, 2016).
3.   Jan.27-Mysterious disappearance of Judge Andrew Monroe, of Louisville. May 28-His body was found floating in the canal opposite the Falls; the belief was that he was accidentally drowned.
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