Monroe Township, Adams County, Ohio Monroe Township, Adams County, Ohio Monroe Township is one of the fifteen townships of Adams County, Ohio, United States. As of the 2010 census the population was 686. Located in the southern part of the county along the Ohio River, it borders the following townships: Lewis County, Kentucky lies across the Ohio River to the south. No municipalities are located in Monroe Township. Monroe Township was organized in 1817. It is named for James Monroe. It is one of twenty-two Monroe Townships statewide. The township is governed by a three-member board of trustees, who are elected in November of odd-numbered
James Forsyth (college president) served as a judge and a member of the Board of Enrollment in Rensselaer County. He was a longtime trustee of the Troy Female Seminary, which became the Emma Willard School, and Rensselaer. He was president of Rensselaer from 1868 to 1886. James Forsyth (college president) James Forsyth (September 8, 1817 – August 10, 1886) was an attorney, businessman, and the seventh president of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. He was born in Peru, New York. He graduated from the University of Vermont in 1839 and was admitted to the bar in 1842. The following year, he moved to Troy, New York