Person:William Monroe (28)

William Winder Monroe, freight and passenger agent C. and O. R.R. Lexington, comes of a Scotch-Irish family, representative of which come to America in 1621, and settled in Virginia, where was born, in 1792, his grandfather, Thomas B. Monroe, who was brought a child to Scott County, Ky. But afterward removed to Barren Co.; married a daughter of Gov. John Adair, under whom he was Secretary of State, in 1824; was, by appointment of President Jackson, Judge for Kentucky from 1833 to 1861,and died at Pass Christian, Miss., in 1865, leaving five sons and five daughters; one of the sons, Victor Monroe, became an attorney; was, in 1853 was appointed by President Pierce, Judge of Washington Territory; married a daughter of William Winder Polk, who was a captain in the Revenue Service, and of the Winder family of Maryland, of which so many figured in the Confederate service, and died at Olympia, W.T. ,in 1855 , leaving three children. William Winder Monroe, the eldest of these, was born in Frankfort, Ky., in 1841; but removing, when young, to Lexington, he was educated at Transylvania University. When the war broke out, he was a student at the Kentucky Military Institute, and enlisted in Morgan<s first company, a part of the “Lexington Rifles” with which corps he had been connected from its organization. He was with Morgan’s cavalry through all its dashing movements till his capture at Buffington, Ohio, on July 19 1863; was held a prisoner till March, 1865, on the 10th of which month he reported at Richmond; but was captured again with the Davis escort, near Irvin Ville, and held till August, 1865 . Returning to Lexington, he was engaged for a time as clerk in the Louisville Hotel; kept books for two years for A.D. Hines’ distillery, and at the same time acted as contracting agent at Lexington for the Pennsylvania Railway; took, in 1870, the same position on the Louisville, Cincinnati and Lexington Railway, which he held till 1871, when he became the local agent of that road at Lexington, and so continued for ten years, less one, 1878 in which he was pool agent for the three lines running to Lexington. In December 1881, he resigned his connection with the Short Line Road and become freight and passenger agent for the Lexington Division of the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad, in which capacity he is now serving. Fayette County, Kentucky, with an outline sketch of the Blue Grass Region by Robert Peter, M.D. O.L. Baskin and Co., Historical Publishers, 1882 https://books.google.com/books?id=shTl-RlesA8C&pg=PA700&dq=milling+in+fayette+co.+kentucky&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwi188z_yMvcAhUOyFkKHYNuDokQ6AEILzAB#v=onepage&q=%20milling%20&f=false