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Munroe, John – Murdock, Harold

Munroe, John

soldier, was born about 1796 in Scotland. He was military and civil governor of New Mexico from October, 1.849, till 1850, and was promoted lieutenant-colonel in 1856. He died April 26, 1861, in New Brunswick, N. J.

Munsell, Franklin

journalist, author, was born in 1857 in New York. He is a publisher of Albany; and the author of Chips for the Chimney Corner; and The Bibliography of Albany.

Munsell, Joel

printer, publisher, author, was born April 14, 1808, in Northfield, Mass. He was a printer and publisher of Albany; and the author of Outlines of the History of Printing; Every- Day Book of History and Chronology; and Chronology of Paper and Paper-Making. He died Jan. 15, 1880, in Albany, N. Y.

Munson, James Eugene

phonographer, author, was born May 12, 1835, in Paris, N. Y. He is a phonographer of New York city; and the author of The Complete Phonographer; Dictionary of Practical Phonography; and Phrase Book of Practical Phonography.

Munson, Loveland

lawyer, jurist, state senator, was born July 21, 1843, in Manchester, Vt. He was a member of the constitutional convention of 1870; of the house of representatives in 1872, 1874 and 1882; and a member of the state senate in 1878. He was register of probate during 1866-76; and a judge of probate in 1883- 89. The latter year he became a judge; and was re-elected four times, serving until 1898.

Munson, Lyman E

lawyer, jurist.

He was appointed chief justice of the United States court for the territory of Montana.

Munson, Samuel Lyman

manufacturer, financier, was born June 14, 1844, in Huntington, Mass. He is a successful manufacturer of shirts and collars of Albany, N. Y. He is a trustee and secretary of the Home Savings bank; and a director of the Albany Exchange National bank.

Munson, Peter

educator, clergyman, was born Sept. 14, 1859, in Sweden. He graduated from the Wesleyan university of Fullerton, Neb.; from the Swedish Theological seminary of Evanston, Ill.; and for three years attended the Illinois Wesleyan university of Bloomington. For several years he was engaged in educational work; is now pastor and secretary of the western Swedish conference; and also missionary secretary of the Kansas-Nebraska district.

Munson, William Benjamin

railroad president, was born Jan. 7, 1846, in Fulton county, Ill. In 1888 he became president of the Denison and Washita Valley railway.

Murch, Thompson H

stone cutter,. journalist, congressman, was born March 29, 1838, in Hampden, Maine. For eighteen years he was a stone cutter, and in 1877 became the editor and publisher of The Granite-Cutters' International Journal. He was elected a representative from Maine to the forty-sixth and forty-seventh congresses.

Murdoch, James Edward

actor, lecturer, author, was born Jan. 25, 1811, in Philadelphia, Pa. He was a noted actorand lecturer; and the author of Orthophony; The Stage; Plea for Spoken Language; and Analytic Elocution. He died in 1893.

Murdock, Harold

author, was born in 1862 in Massachusetts. He is a bank cashier of Boston; and the author of The Reconstruction of Europe, a Sketch of the Diplomatic and Military History of Continental Europe from the Rise to the Fall of the Second French Empire.