MONROE F. WALTERS

Walters, Monroe F. (1867-1948), was born on November 3,1867, son of Monroe and Isabella Walters. He only attended school up to the 8th grade. He lived at Goshen Bridge, Virginia, then at Low Moor, Virginia, and later Clifton Virginia. He later on returned to Ohio and resided at 1358 North 5th Street Columbus, Ohio.

He was originally from Logan, Ohio, where he worked as a sales clerk in the coal mining industry for the Columbus and Hocking Coal and Iron Company (C & H. C & I. Co.) store, and later on at their plant in Longstreth, Ohio. On November 14, 1887 he married Lillie "Lillian" M. Turner, at Gallia, Ohio. They had a son Louis Walters (1892-). He and his family moved to Goshen, Virginia on February 2, 1889, where he worked as a sales clerk in the Victoria Furnace store. His name appeared in the March 1892 issue of The Numismatist, in list no. 15, as number 442.

By 1893 he worked for the Virginia Iron & Railway Company at Goshen Bridge.

He was a correspondent with the Chapman Brothers and placed bids in their auctions. The Lupia Numismatic Library contains various letters from him to the Chapman Brothers about coin auction sales.

Letter dated May 6, 1893 from Monroe F. Walters to the Chapman Brothers complaining about coin descriptions regarding condition or grading in coin auction catalogues not being true to objective eyes. A familiar complaint found among collectors and dealers reminiscent of the famous Cogan and Mason feud of 1868 to 1869 (q.v. sub Cogan). A second complaint about auction sales was losing a lot and becoming the under bidder by a fractional dollar amount such as a mere nickel. That is something frustrating indeed!

The remainder of the letter are discussions about four lots and his bids for the Chapman coin auction consigned by Nicholas Petry, to be sold May 10, 1893, just 4 days from the date of the letter. Courtesy the Lupia Numismatic Library, Special Collection, The Chapman Family Archive.

He sold his coin collection of 451 lots containing fine Canadian coins, medals, jetons, U. S. coins, Colonial coins and numismatic literature and coin auction catalogues through Ed Frossard’s 127th Sale, on September 27, 1894. He remained an active numismatist his entire life.

According to the 1900 U. S. Census, he and his wife had a boarder, Thomas W. Merry a superintendent of ore mines.

His membership in the ANA lapsed and he rejoined in 1906 and was assigned member No. 812.

In the 1930 U.S. Census he and his wife Lillian and their son Louis were living in Columbus, Ohio, where he worked as a janitor at Ohio State University since 1928 with an annual salary of $1,380.00. In the 1940 U. S. Census he worked as a supply man at Ohio State University.

On May 10, 1943, at the 137th monthly meeting of the Columbus Numismatic Society he exhibited National Bank Notes of the First Charter Period.

He died on October 27, 1948 one week before his 81st birthday and is buried in the New Lexington Cemetery, Perry County, Ohio.

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