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Orson D. Munn was born on June 11, 1824, in Monson, Massachusetts, the youngest son of Rice Munn and Lavinia Shaw. His first direct American ancestor was Benjamin Munn, who in 1649 removed from Hartford, Connecticut, and settled in Springfield, Massachusetts.
Munn was educated at Monson Academy in his native town.
Then he decided upon a commercial career, began work at the age of nineteen as a clerk in a bookstore in Springfield, Massachusetts.
After two years Munn became a clerk in a general store in Monson and was so engaged when, in 1846, he was asked by his friend and schoolmate, Alfred E. Beach, to join him in the purchase of a publication called the Scientific American, which had been founded August 28, 1845, by Rufus Porter.
Munn accepted, the firm of Munn & Company, consisting of Beach, Munn, and Salem H. Wales, was established, and office space was secured in New York in the building occupied by the New York Sun, a paper then owned by Beach's father. The first issue of the Scientific American under the new firm appeared July 23, 1846, and from that time until his death, sixty-one years later, Munn gave his whole attention to its interests. Inasmuch as it was the first American periodical devoted purely to science and mechanics, the partners were constantly brought into contact with inventors seeking information and advice regarding patents. Consequently, they established a patent department, which, coming at a time when patent attorneys were practically unknown, met with immediate response.
Under the directorship of Judge Charles Mason, a former commissioner of patents, the business grew at a rapid rate, necessitating the opening of an office in Washington, District of Columbia, and at the time of Munn's death over 100, 000 patents had been secured by the department for clients. Properly to describe and illustrate the interesting exhibits at the Centennial Exhibition of 1876, the partners began in that year the publication of the Scientific American Supplement. Its success led them to continue it as a weekly review of current scientific literature and to add also articles too long or too technical for the ordinary reader.
About 1890 they began still another publication, La América científica e industrial, designed for the Spanish-speaking peoples of South America. One of the features of the Scientific American was its information bureau; and in view of the many requests for data on home building and furnishing, Munn began in 1885 the publication of a monthly magazine devoted to this subject. It appeared for a time as the Building Edition of the Scientific American, but in 1905 it was remodeled and issued under the name American Homes and Gardens. Aside from his business, Munn's chief interest centered in his farm near Orange, New Jersey, and in his prize stock of Dutch belted cattle. Orson D. Munn died on February 28, 1907, and was buried at Woodlawn Cemetery, Bronx, New York.
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In 1849, Orson D. Munn married Julia Augusta Allen of Monson, Massachusetts. They had two sons.
Alfred Ely Beach was an American inventor, publisher and patent lawyer.
