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Garry Munson

Birth	:	29 Dec 1810 Norwich, Hampshire County, Massachusetts, USA
Death	:	5 Jun 1882 Huntington, Hampshire County, Massachusetts, USA
Burial	:	Norwich Bridge Cemetery, Huntington, Hampshire County, USA
Coordinate	:	42.2556000, -72.8707962
Plot	:	Munson Lot 120, 121, 136 & 137
Description	:	He was the eldest child of Daniel and Jerusha (Fowler) Munson, was born December 29, 1810, died June 5, 1882. After leaving the district school he attended Westfield (Massachusetts) Academy five terms and then engaged in teaching. In April, 1829, at the age of eighteen, he opened a store on Chester Hill in connection with his father, and this business continued eight years. On the day he was twenty-one he began making twist buttons, and the year following, the production of lasting buttons. In 1835 he was employing over two hundred persons. After a few years the introduction of machine-made... Read More	He was the eldest child of Daniel and Jerusha (Fowler) Munson, was born December 29, 1810, died June 5, 1882. After leaving the district school he attended Westfield (Massachusetts) Academy five terms and then engaged in teaching. In April, 1829, at the age of eighteen, he opened a store on Chester Hill in connection with his father, and this business continued eight years. On the day he was twenty-one he began making twist buttons, and the year following, the production of lasting buttons. In 1835 he was employing over two hundred persons. After a few years the introduction of machine-made buttons drove him out of the business. During the financial panic of 1837 he lost two-thirds of his property, and he removed to Springfield, where for two and a half years he was a partner with Galen Ames in the dry goods business. In 1840 he removed to Huntington, where he took possession of the farms at Norwich Bridge, which had been owned by his father and grandfather since 1807. He also opened a store which he operated for five years. He acquired a half interest in a lumber mill. In 1848 he built a store in the village, where he carried on business three and a half years until fire destroyed the building. For many years he was an extensive wool buyer. In 1870-71 he was a member of Delaney & Munson, with paper mills at Unionville, Connecticut. In 1872 he became a partner in the Massasoit Knitting Mills at Cohoes, New York. He devoted much of his time during his later years to the settlement of estates. He was trial justice in the Huntington district, and at the time of his death commissioner of insolvency, and president of the Cemetery Association and of Huntington Hall Association. Politically, he was a Whig and later a Republican. At the age of thirty-four he was elected to the legislature, and was repeatedly elected selectman. For twenty-five or thirty years he was almost continuously moderator of the town meetings. He was a member of the Congregational church and one of the founders of the Second Congregational church in Huntington. When it was destroyed by fire he gave more than any other toward replacing it. For twenty-five years he served as deacon. He was diligent in attendance upon public worship and in maintaining family worship. He keenly enjoyed family reunions, and for years he and three brothers had annual gatherings in their homes successively. After his children began to form homes of their own he established the custom of having them gather at the old homestead every alternate Thanksgiving. He had rare sagacity, rare judgment, rare power to execute, and a rare wealth of practical information. The judicial quality of his mind was noteworthy, and his proper function, had he been educated for it, was upon the bench. He was devoted to his family and gave his sons every encouragement, both in advice and practical help. He married, November 6, 1833, Harriet Lyman, born October 10, 1810, died August 18, 1860, daughter of Colonel and Deacon Samuel Lyman, of Chester, Massachusetts. She bore him seven children.

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Garry Munson's memorial is located at: Norwich Bridge Cemetery, Huntington, Hampshire County, USA.
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Garry Munson death on 5 Jun 1882 in Huntington, Hampshire County, Massachusetts, USA
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Latitude: 42.2556000
Longitude: -72.8707962

Family Members:

Parent

Daniel Munson

(1786 - 1859)

Jerusha Fowler Munson

(1786 - 1852)

Spouse

Paulina Smith Munson

(1819 - 1911)

Harriet Lyman Munson

(1810 - 1860)

Siblings

Cleora Fowler Munson

(1813 - 1816)

Children

Rev Myron Andrews Munson

(1835 - 1922)

Homer Wilson Munson

(1840 - 1909)

Horace Willard Munson

(1840 - 1912)

Emma Harriet Munson

(1849 - 1863)

Cleora Fowler Munson Judd

(1852 - 1930)

Harriet Smith Munson

(1863 - 1864)

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