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years. He was auditor for Hancock county, 1846-50, and a member of the state senate, 1852- 54, and declined renomination. He was a dele- gate to the Democratic national convention at Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1856. to the Charleston, S.C., and Biiltimore, Md., conventions in 1800, and to the Union national convention at Philadelphia, Pa., in 1866. He assisted in raising the 21st Ohio volunteers for three months' service, entering the Union army in July. 1861, as colonel of the 57th Ohio volunteers, which regiment he raised and with which he served in the Arnij' of the Tennes- see. He was complimented by General Sherman for bravery at Shiloh, April 6, 1862, and for his action in an encounter with Porter's cavalry at Morning Sun, Tenn. In 1863 he resigned on account of ill-health. On recovering he was ap- pointed state agent to visit the Ohio troops in the Department of Tennessee with poll books and tally sheets and in 1864 performed the same duty for the Oliio troops in the Army of the Potomac. He held several local offices in Findlay and was a Democratic representative from the fifth Ohio district in the 40th and 41st congresses, 1867-71. He died at Findlay. Ohio, Sept. 9, 1887.

MUNGER, Theodore Thornton, clergyman, was born in Bainbridge, N.Y., March 5, 1830; son of Ebenezer and Cynthia (Selden) Hunger, grandson of Ebenezer Munger of Madison, Conn., and of the Rev. David and Cynthia (May) Selden of Middle Hoddam, Conn.; great grandson of the Rev. Eleazer and Sybil (Huntington) May, and a descendant from Nicholas Munger, a first settler of Madison, Conn., 1639, and also a lineal descendant of John Eliot the apostle. He was graduated at Yale, A.B., 1851, and at the Yale Divinity school in 1855; was ordained to the ministry of the Congregational church and was pastor of a church in Dorchester, Mass., 1856-60; at Haverhill, Mass., 1862-70, and at Lawrence, Mass., 1870-75. In 1875 he went to California for his health and established a church at San Jose, where he served as pastor until 1876. He was pastor of the church at North Adams, Mass., 1877-85, and of the United church at New Haven, Conn., from 1885 until 1900. when he resigned and became pastor emeritus. He received the degree of.D.D. from Illinois college in 1883 and was made a fellow of Yale, June 27, 1887. He was married, first in 1864, to Elizabeth K., daughter of the Hon. James H. Duncan of Haverhill, Mass., and secondly in 1889 to Harriet K., daughter of John C. Osgood of Salem, ^lass. He contributed essays to magazines and reviews and is the author of: On the Tlireshold (18^1): The Freedom of Faith (1883); Lamps and Paths (1885); The Appeal to Life (1887); Character through Inspiration (London, 1896). all of which volumes are chiefly collections of lectures and sermons; Plain Living

and High Tliinkinq (1897), and iJbrace Bushnell (1899).

nUNKITTRICK, Richard Kendall, author, was born in Manchester. England, Marcli 5, 1853; son of Richard and Augusta (Thorburn) Munkittrick. He attended Union Hall academy, Jamaica, N.Y., Dr. Stoughton's academy, Summit, N.J., and the public schools, and engaged in literary work. He was married, July 5, 1883, to Jeannette Agnes Turner. He contributed articles in prose and verse to the leading perioilicals, was a member of the editorial staff of Puck, 1881-89, and on Sept. 1, 1901, assumed the editorship of Judge. His articles are chiefly humorous and include: Farming (1891); The Moon Prince and other Kabobs (1893); The New Jersey Arabian Nights (1893); The Acrobatic Muse, verse (1896); The Slambangaree (1898).

MUNN, Orson Desaix, publisher, was born in Monson, Mass., June 11, 1824; son of Rice and Lavinia (Shaw) Muun; grandson of Reuben and Hannah Mun, and a descendant of Benjamin Mun who in 1637 was a resident of Hartford, Conn., and that year joined an expedition against the Pequot Indians and was at the attack on the fort at Groton, Conn., where a great number were killed. Benjamin Mun served in the army, fight- ing Indians until he was exempted from military service on account of his old age, in 1665. Orson D. Munn was graduated at Monson academy in 1840; was a clerk in a book store at Springfield, Mass., 1840-42, and a clerk in a country store in Monson, Mass., 1843^6. He removed to New York city in 1846, and in connection with Alfred E. Beach, a former schoolmate, purchased the Scientific American, then six months old, from Rufus Porter, the founder, for less than $1000. It was soon placed on a paying basis by the new firm of Munn & Co. They established the Scientific American Supplement in 1876. and an Architect and Builders' edition in 1885. Tiie publishing house which Mr. Munn founded in 1846 estab- lished offices in New York and "Washington in 1850, procuring letters patents for new inventions, and more than 150,000 cases passed through their agencj' before 1902. The following well-known inventors were among their many noted clients: Prof. S. F. B. Morse. Elias Howe, Thomas Blan- chard, A. B. "Wilson, Peter Cooper, Commodore Stevens. Cyrus H. McCormick, R. J. Gatling and R. P. Parrot. Mr. Munn was married in August, 1849, to Julia Augusta, daughter of Plin Allen of Monson, Mass., and tiieir sons, Henry M. and Cliarles Allen, after leaving school, entered the offices of Munn & Co., where they became im- portant factors.

nUNRO, Wilfred Harold, educator, was born in Bristol, R.I., Aug. 20. 1849; son of .John Ben- nett and Abby Howland (Batt) Munro; grand-