Showing posts with label Munson. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Munson. Show all posts
Sunday, June 28, 2026

MUNSON TALES: Love, Abolition, Suffrage, and Frederick Douglass (Clan Ephraim) Part 1

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On 14 Feb 1818, Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey, who would later become known as Frederick Douglass, was born in what was most likely h...
Saturday, June 27, 2026

MUNSON TALES: Eureka! A straight barrel at last! (Clan Jabez)

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It was quite a treat to run across a story from Clan Jabez. The clan is very small. I want to start with Henry Munson’s mother, Lucy Munson....
Saturday, December 7, 2024

Munson Tales: New England Slave Owners

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Revelations out of Yale relatively recently brought the public’s attention to the fact that slaves contributed to the building of several e...
Thursday, December 5, 2024

Munson Tales: Puritans Turned Polygamists

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 Mary Elizabeth Potter (Clan Elizabeth) and Burr Frost married as teens in 1835 in Connecticut. Just seven years later, the couple was bapti...
Tuesday, December 3, 2024

Munson Tales: Larry Welch, Chief of Staff of the Air Force

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Young Larry Thomas Munson > Samuel Munson > Solomon Munson > Samuel Munson > Ruth Munson > Mary Van Cleef > Ruth Ryker ...
Sunday, December 1, 2024

Munson Tales: Capt Charles Butman Munson Family: U.S.S. Merrimac to Munson Island

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Captain C B Munson C.B. Munson (Clan Daniel), born in New Haven, Connecticut in 1852 on terra firma, would spend 47 years of his life on the...
Friday, November 29, 2024

Munson Tales: Why Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman Moved to Late Night

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Ruth Elizabeth Wood Ruth Wood Pflager (1917-2008) (Clan Obadiah) lived in several locations throughout the U.S. as her husband Miller “Dan”...
Monday, August 15, 2022

Clan William: Marrying Up - William Edgar Mattison Jr

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This is a short little story about a Munson-descended man "marrying up." William Edgar Mattison married Elizabeth Dean Alford, a d...
Tuesday, July 26, 2022

Clan William: Physicist DeWitt Bristol Brace, PhD

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Today's subject is the incredible pioneer scientist, DeWitt Bristol Brace, PhD. He was a brilliant physics professor and researcher who ...