![]() ![]() However, Bill also had to do janitorial work at the company, something of which he was embarrassed and wouldn’t speak of publicly. Bill soon proved that he was up to the job, unloading empty oil barrels from the freight trains and cleaning them. Charlie was afraid that Bill wouldn’t be able to do the heavy labor as a result of an appendectomy. Birch was not as lucky and remained unemployed for some time. Luckily for Bill, Charlie Monroe was well liked at Sinclair and was able to help his brother to secure employment there as well. It was the start of the Great Depression and the crowds outside the refinery of men hoping for a job grew large enough that the police had to move them so the street cars could get through. ![]() His brother Charlie had gotten a job at the Sinclair Oil refinery in Whiting, Indiana, and sent for Bill and their other brother Birch. ![]() While Bill was born and raised in Kentucky, he moved to northwest Indiana in 1929 when was he was just eighteen years old. William “Bill” Monroe’s Hoosier roots run deep. Hatch Show Print, circa 1940s, Country Music Hall of Fame, image accessed Learn about the origins of the Brown County Jamboree in Bean Blossom, Indiana in Part I. ![]()
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