Source: Commemorative Biographical Record of the counties of Huron and Lorain, Ohio - Illustrated_ Publ. Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co. - 1894 - Page 694

JAMES MONROE of Oberlin was born at Plainfield, Windham Co., Conn., July 18, 1821.  He received his early education in the common school, at Plainfield Academy, and, afterward, under the private instructions of Mr. John Witter a highly esteemed teacher of Plainfield.
     Before reaching the age of twenty, he was engaged, for several years, in teaching in the public schools of Windham county.  From October, 1841, until February, 1844, he was employed as agent of the American Antislavery Society and other organizations of similar object, speaking and laboring earnestly for the antislavery cause.  He thus became acquainted with many of the early Abolitionists.  In the spring of 1844, feeling the need of more thorough classical training, he went to Oberlin College, from which he graduated in 1846.  For the three following years he pursued and completed a course of theological study i that institution.  After having served for several years as tutor, he was elected, in 1849, to the Chair of Rhetoric and Belles Lettres in Oberlin College, a place which he filled until 1862.  Beginning with the winter of 1850-51, he devoted some months of each year, for several years, to raising money for the College.  Mr. Monroe was elected, in the fall of 1855, to the first Republican General Assembly of Ohio.  He was a member of the House of Representatives in that State in 1856, 1857, 1858 and 1859, and of the Senate in 1860, 1861 and 1862.  While in the Legislature he introduced and carried through several important measures, such as a bill to establish Reform Schools, one to amend the Habeas Corpus Act, and bills to protect the rights of colored citizens and for other purposes.  He was chosen President pro tempore of the Ohio Senate in 1861, and again in 1862.  In the meantime he did not neglect his work in the College, as the sessions of the General Assembly were held at the time of the long vacation in the Institution.
     In the fall of 1862 he resigned his place in the Ohio Senate, and also his Chair in the College, to accept the position of United States consul at Rio de Janeiro tendered him by President Lincoln.  This office he held until the spring of 1870, having also served for some months in 1869 as Charge d'Affaires ad interim.  In the October, 1870, he was elected from the Oberlin District to the House of Representatives at Washington.  He was a member of this body for ten years, from March 4, 1871, to Mar. 4, 1881.  During this period he served upon the Committee on Banking and Currency, that on Foreign Affairs, that on Education and Labor of which he was Chairman, and that on Appropriations.  At the close of his Fifth Congress he declined a renomination.  On his return to Oberlin a desire was expressed that he might be placed in a new Professorship of "Political Science and Modern History;" but the College had no fund for its support.  Thereupon his friends in Northern Ohio and other parts of the country contributed thirty thousand dollars to Oberlin College on condition that it should be permanently invested, and that the interest should be applied to the support of the new Chair which Mr. Monroe should be invited to fill.  This arrangement was accordingly carried out, and in September, 1883, Mr. Monroe resumed teaching in the new place, the duties of which he ahs continued to discharge to the present time.
     In politics Mr. Monroe has been a Republican ever since the organization of the party; and, in his religious faith, he is a Congregationalist.
Source: Commemorative Biographical Record of the counties of Huron and Lorain, Ohio - Illustrated_ Publ. Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co. - 1894 - Page 644

Source: Commemorative Biographical Record of the counties of Huron and Lorain, Ohio - Illustrated_ Publ. Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co. - 1894 - Page 856

D. R. MOYSEY, the leading veterinary surgeon of Elyria, was born Apr. 19, 1858, in Mansfield, Richland Co., Ohio, a son of R. R. and Sallie (Dennison) Moysey, both of whom were born in Lincolnshire, England.  In 1852 R. R. Moysey came from England to Mansfield, Ohio, where he resided for sixteen years, and then moved to Kelley's Island, Ohio, where he has ever since made his home.  For twenty-five years he has devoted his time and attention to grape culture and wine making, and he is one of the proprietors of the Sweet Valley Wine Company.
     The subject of this sketch received his education at the common schools of the vicinity of his place of birth, and was reared to his father's grape business on Kelley's Island in Lake Erie, until he commenced the study of veterinary surgery.  In 1885 he entered the Veterinary College at Chicago, graduating from same in 1887.  He then came to Elyria, and practiced his profession exclusively till about two years ago, when he opened a livery stable in connection, having as a partner J. L. Reed, and he does an extension business in both interests.
     On Apr. 24, 1883, D. R. Moysey was united in marriage with Miss Sallie D. Carpenter (who was also reared on Kelley's Island), a daughter of Charles Carpenter, who was born in Norwich, Conn.; her mother was born at Rockport, Ohio, and was one of the old Kelley family.  To this marriage children were born as follows:  Lynne, Mildred, Mabel and Florence.  Our subject is a Republican, and is a popular, loyal citizen.
Source: Commemorative Biographical Record of the counties of Huron and Lorain, Ohio - Illustrated_ Publ. Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co. - 1894 - Page 1146