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    HOMER VICTOR MONROE

    Homer Victor Monroe. Among the merchants of the younger generation at Piqua, one who has made rapid progress during the two years of his connection with business affairs is Homer Victor Monroe, proprietor of the Monroe Cycle, Store. Mr. Monroe was born at Sidney, Ohio, February 16, 1895, a son of W. E. and Lura (Noll) Monroe, who passed their younger days in Shelby county and are still residents of Sidney, where W. E. Monroe is successfully engaged in business as proprietor of a grocery. They have five children: Homer Victor, of this review; Paul, who is manager of a bicycle and supply store at Sidney, and Leora, John and Winfield, who reside with their parents. Homer V. Monroe received his training in the graded and high schools of Sidney and at Ohio State University, where he spent two and one-half years, specializing in science. With his education completed, he became a salesman for the Frantz-Premier Company, of Cleveland, a position which he retained until 1918. At that time he was ready to engage in business on his own account, and accordingly came to Piqua, where he founded a bicycle establishment on North Main street. Here he carries a full line of bicycles, supplies, sporting goods and toys, and is Piqua agent for the Davis line of bicycles, including such makes as the Dayton, National and Snell. He has built up an excellent patronage, his customers having found him reliable, energetic and courteous and possessed of a comprehensive knowledge of his business. He is something of a natural mechanic and maintains a repair department in connection with his business, which has shown a gratifying growth during the comparatively short period of its existence. Prior to coming to Piqua, Mr. Monroe was united in marriage with Aetna May, daughter of Charles Martz, of Sidney, Ohio, and to this union there has been born one daughter, Genevieve J. He holds membership in the local lodge of the Knights of Pythias, and Elks, in which he has numerous friends, and he and Mrs. Monroe are members of the Methodist church. During the war period Mr. Monroe was a generous supporter of war movements and Mrs. Monroe took an active part in the work of the local Red Cross Society.

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