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Excerpt from Death of Col. Jas; Monroe: Contributed to the Army and Navy Journal
Colonel james monroe, who was born September 10, 1799, in Albemarle county, Virginia, died September 7, 1870, at the residence, on Orange Moun tain, N. J., of his only surviving child, Mrs. Douglas Robinson, having nearly completed seventy-one years of an eventful life. He was the nephew of President Monroe, who was a younger brother of his father, Andrew Monroe. They were descended from Captain Monroe, an officer in the army of Charles the First, who emigrated with the Cavaliers to Virginia in 1652.
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