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 MUNSELL

MUNSEY

Kirk attended the public schools at Appleton. Wis., and Cambridge, Mass., and matriculateil at Harvard, but did not graduate. He was married, Sept. 15, 1883, to Mary, daughter of Robert and Amelia Edith (Huddlestoii) Barr. He founded tiie League of American Wheelmen at Newport, R.I., May 31. 1880, and was for five years commo- dore of the New York Canoe club. He was the first editor of Harpers Round Table, 1879-82, and also edited " Eminent Men of our Time." His published books include: Wakulla (1886); The Flamingo Feather (1887); Derrick Sterling (1888); Chrystal Jack <& Co and Delta Bixhy (1889); The Golden Days of '49 (1889); Dorymates (1890); Under Orders (1890); Prince Dust i/ (1891); Camp- mates (1891); Canoemates (1892); Cab and Ca- boose (1892); Raftniates (1893); The White Con- querors (1893); The Coral Ship (1893); The Fur Seal's Tooth (1894); Big Cypress (1894); Snow Shoes and Sledges (1895); At War with Pontiac (1895); Rick Dale (1896); Tlirough Swamp and Glade (1896); The Painted Desert (1897); With Crockett and Bowie (1897); Ready Rangers (1897); The Copper Princess (1898); In Private Waters (1898); Shine Terrill (1899); Forivard, March (1899); Midshipman Stuart (189d); Breth- ren of the Coast (1900); Under the Great Bear (1900); The Belt of Seven Totems (1901), and A Son of Satsuma (1901).

nUNSELL, Joel, publisher, was born at North- field, Mass., April 13, 1808; son of Joel and Cynthia (Paine) Munsell. grandson of Hezekiah and Irene (Bissell) Munsell, and a descendant of Thomas Munsell, who emigrated from England to New London, Conn., about 1680. He was ed- ucated in the public schools of Northfield, Mass., and learned the wheelwright's trade under his father, and the printer's trade in Greenfield, Mass., where he became foreman of the office. He was employed as clerk in John Denio's book-store in Albany, N.Y., in 1827, and subsequently became manager of the business, but resigned and en- gaged as a printer. He established the Albany Minerva, in 1828, and issued eight numbers; was employed in various newspaper offices, 1828-34, and in 1834 became associated with Henry D. Stone in publishing the Microscope. He pur- chased a job printing office in Albany in 1836, and engaged in publishing reference papers, pamphlets and books. He published and edited the New York Mechanic, a Whig camjviign paper, 1841-43, and began to publisli The Lady's Maga- zine, The Northern Star and 77ie Freeman's Ad- vocate in 1842: The Spectator, a religious paper, in 1844; the Guard and Odd Fellows' Journal in 1845, and aftprward, successively, the Unionist, the State Register, the Typographical Miscellany, the New York Teacher, the Albany Morning Fx- press and the Albany Daily Statesman. He also

published Webstei-'s Almanac, and the Netc Eng- land Historical and Genealogical Register, 1861- 64. He made a studj' and collection of works on the art of printing, part of which was purchased by the New York state library, and projected, edited and annotated an " Historical Series," that prove<l of great benefit to historical literature. He was one of the founders of the Albany insti- tute and for many years published its Proceed- ings. He was a member of the Connecticut His- torical society and of the New England Historic Genealogical society; corresponding member of the New York, Iowa, Maine, Vermont, Buffalo, Western Reserve and Oneida historical societies; an honorary member of the Wisconsin, Pennsyl- vania. New Jersey and Licking county, Ohio, his- torical societies. He was also an honorary mem- ber of the American Antiquarian society, a corre- sponding member of the Numismatic and Anti- quarian Society of Philadelphia and of the New York Genealogical and Biographical society. He was twice married; first, June 17, 1834, to Jane C. Bigelow, and secondly, Sept. 4, 1856. to IMary A., daughter of Alexander and Sai'ah (Sparrow) Keid, of Montreal. His son, Frank Munsell, born June 19, 1857, succeeded him as Joel Munsell's Son, editing: Genealogical Index (1885); American Ancestry (1887-1900); American Genealogist (1900); is the author of: " Bibliography of Albany and Munsell Genealogy," and retired from busi- ness in 1900. Joel Munsell is the author of: Out- lines of the History of Printing (1839); Annals of Albany (10 vols., 1849-59); Every-Day Book of History and Chronology (1856); Chronology of Paper and Paper Making (1857, enlarged 1864 and 1870), and A Manual of the 1st Lutheran Church of Albany from 1670 till 1S70 (1871). He died in Albany, N.Y., Jan. 15, 1880.

MUNSEY, Frank Andrew, publisher, was born in Mercer, Maine. Aug. 21. 1854; son of Andrew C. and Mary J. (Hopkins) Munsey. After attend- ing the district school he became a clerk in a country store; learned telegraphy, and became the manager of the Western Union office in Augusta, Maine. In 1882 he established the Golden Argosy, a boys' paper in New York city and issued i4 weekly, changing to the monthly Argosy, and in 1898 purchasing Peterson's Magazine established in 1842 and combining it with the Argosy. He established Munsey s Weekly in February, 1889, connected it with Munsey's Magazine in October, 1891, reduced the price in October. 1893, to ten cents and was obliged to organize his own news company to distribute it, which he did so success- fully that it becanip the largest circulating maga- zine in the United States. He established the Puritan, January, 1897, and in October, 1898, merged with it Godey's Magazine founded in 1830. He established The Quaker in November,