. Sketches of Monroe and Union County : together with general and individual characteristics of their people and a description of the natural resources and business enterprises. Both members of the firmare young men of energyand excellent business ca-pacity. Besides their largemercantile trade, they arethe principal stockholdersin the Monroe WarehouseCompany and other cor-porations and are wide-awake, public-spirited citi-zens, who join in every en-terprise looking to the bet-terment and upbuilding oftheir city. Fair dealingand liberality have se-cured for these gentlementroops of R.
. Sketches of Monroe and Union County : together with general and individual characteristics of their people and a description of the natural resources and business enterprises. Both members of the firmare young men of energyand excellent business ca-pacity. Besides their largemercantile trade, they arethe principal stockholdersin the Monroe WarehouseCompany and other cor-porations and are wide-awake, public-spirited citi-zens, who join in every en-terprise looking to the bet-terment and upbuilding oftheir city. Fair dealingand liberality have se-cured for these gentlementroops of R. U. CROW, 94 i;. V. iiorsTox, i:sq, .Mr. I{. \. Ili>u-ti)ii ()vs the distiiictiim of liciii^^^ the nldistoriginal citizen of Munrdc. IIo is 5G years uf age. ami lut <tn<lias li\c(l in so long as lie. Th()U<rh very yoiini: at lln- time, lie voluntcercil C, 10th X. \rtillery, under (apt. (,.M. T. :\[e(aiiley. II. hasr\(r l)een an enthusiasticCon federate. He has siih-s(ril)ed $50 to the pro-p;)sed Confederate monu-ment for the county, andhas in other ways shownhis love for the cause.\fter the war he engagedMl merchandising underI he firm name of Houston\- Co. He has since heenengaged in farming, andis now one of the largestplanters in the county. Henow operates more thantwenty plows. Mr. llous-i;. V. (jN. ^Qj^^ though enjoying wide popularity, has never sought oiTice, though if he had turned hisattention to polities there is no douht he would have achievedlarge success in that field. He spends his time quietly in look-ing after his large
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