Will County ILGenWeb Biographies..... 
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Author: History of Will County, Illinois; Chicago: Wm LeBaron Jr & Co, 186 Dearborn Street, 1878.

George J. MUNROE, attorney at law and financial agent, Joliet; was born in Baraboo, Sauk Co., 
Wis., Feb. 11, 1853; after receiving an English education in his native county, he entered 
Oberlin College, Ohio, at the age of 16 years, and after spending two years in that 
institution, became a student in the National Normal School at Lebanon, Ohio, graduating 
from the classical department in 1872; he had previously been engaged in teaching during 
his vacations, and after graduating he assumed charge of the public school at Marlboro, 
Stark Co., Ohio, remaining one year; he then spent about six months in traveling in the 
West, after which he began the study of the law in the office of Sleeper & Whiton in 
Chicago, and also attended one course of lectures at the Union College of Law in that 
city; he was admitted to the bar Jan. 15, 1877, and practiced in Chicago until the fall 
of the same year; in March, 1878, he settled in Joliet, and entered upon the practice 
of his profession; in addition to his law practice, he does quite an extensive business 
in loaning money for Eastern capitalists. He was married Nov. 21, 1877, to Miss Addie 
P. SIMONDS, eldest daughter of S. O. SIMONDS, Esq., of Joliet.