Gen. Edmund Munger

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Husband Gen. Edmund Munger ¹

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1 M Reuben Munger ¹

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         Spouse: Laura Harris (      -      ) 1

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General Notes: Husband - Gen. Edmund Munger

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He was a New Englander and a member of an old Colonial family, the first of the Mungers to settle in America having been one of the Kent Mungers who came over and settled in New England in 1639, where he established his family, his descendants forming a numerous connection widely scattered throughout the United States. General Munger, whose title was earned by right of his command of Ohio troops during the War of 1812, spent one summer after coming to Ohio in the wilds near Belpre, in Washington County, where he cleared some land and planted a crop. Afterward he purchased a section of land in what was known as the Symmes purchase in what later came to be organized as Montgomery County, and established his home there, south of Dayton, in 1798, one of the earliest settlers in the Miami valley, and in time came to be commander of militia in his district. It is narrated of General Munger that though a farmer by vocation he was "a man of marked ability along many lines. He had considerable mechanical talents, could shoe his own horses and repair his farm machinery, and at the same time his mental talents and broad knowledge made him a leader of public thought and opinion." Among the acts by which he contributed largely to the common good of the pioneers and to the advancement of learning in the community was the establishment of a circulating library which exerted a wide influence in the formative days of the new settlement. General Munger died at his home on the old Symmes purchase at the age of eighty-six years and his widow survived him for some years, she living to the extraordinary age of one hundred years and four months. They were the parents of twelve children, ten of whom lived to maturity and reared families of their own.

1 M. A. Broadstone, History of Greene County, Ohio, Vol. II (Indianapolis, IN: B. F. Bowen & Company, Inc., 1918), Pg 329.