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Thomas Munson was born on September 26, 1843, in Astoria, Illinois, the son of William Munson and Maria Linley. His father was of New Hampshire stock, and his mother was from Kentucky.
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Thomas Munson was born on September 26, 1843, in Astoria, Illinois, the son of William Munson and Maria Linley. His father was of New Hampshire stock, and his mother was from Kentucky.
After an elementary education in the country schools, Munson taught in Illinois (1861 - 1864) to earn money for his course at the University of Kentucky, which he attended with his brother, William B. Munson, Sr. , receiving the degree of Bachelor of Science in 1870.
Thomas Munson received the degree of Master of Science from the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Kentucky.
During the years 1870 - 1871 Munson was professor of science in the University of Kentucky, and from 1871 to 1873 he was engaged in the nursery business with his wife's father in Lexington.
He established himself in Lincoln, Nebraska, in 1873, and three years later, at the solicitation of his brother William, removed his business to Denison, Texas, his home until his death. It was here that all of his scientific and horticultural work was done. He developed a vineyard and experimental grounds, while at the same time he became one of the most prominent general horticulturists of the South.
In 1883 Munson published his "Forests and Forest Trees of Texas" for which the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Kentucky conferred on him the degree of Master of Science.
In the eighties, at the instance of the French government, he sought for and experimented with American species of wild grape resistant to the phylloxera pest of the French grape. His admirable work on the grape appears in his "Classification and Generic Synopsis of the Wild Grapes of North America"; in Texas Agricultural Experiment Station, Bulletin No. 56, 1900; in articles in L. H. Bailey, Cyclopedia of American Horticulture, vol. II (1900); and in his own Foundations of American Grape Culture (1909). His death, which occurred on January 21, 1913, was due to influenza, followed by pneumonia.
Thomas V. Munson was the internationally recognized horticulturist, who developed over 300 new varieties of grapes, some of which are still grown today on almost every continent. He is perhaps best known for his work in fighting the phylloxera epidemic of the late nineteenth century, which nearly destroyed the world s vineyards. Around 1975 Grayson Community College in the Sherman-Denison area established a Thomas Volney Munson Memorial Vineyard to recognize Munson's contribution to horticulture and to cultivate and preserve many of the Munson grape varieties. In 1988 the T. V. Munson Viticulture and Enology Center opened next to the vineyard. In 1888, Thomas Munson was the second American, after Thomas Edison, to be named a Chevalier du Mérite Agricole by the French government. Several statues honoring Munson have been erected in France. The sports arena at Denison High School is named Munson Stadium.
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Thomas V. Munson received, in recognition of his work, membership in the Legion of Honor, election as foreign corresponding member of the Société Nationale d'Agriculture de France (1898), and honorary membership in the Société des Viticulteurs de France.
In addition, he was a prominent member of numerous scientific and horticultural societies in America, a member of the Texas World's Fair Commission (1903 - 1904), and one of the international jury of awards at the St. Louis Exposition (1904).
With all his abilities and accomplishments, Thomas Volney Munson was a man of singularly modest disposition, and was widely loved.
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"Probably no man ever lived in Texas whose character attracted greater admiration, or whose removal caused more general regret he loved his kind and was lavish in his benefactions to those, who, helpless, appealed to his sympathy" (Johnson and Barker, post, IV, 1722).
On June 27, 1870, Thomas V. Munson married Ellen Scott Bell, daughter of Charles Stuart Bell, a horticulturist and nurseryman of Lexington, Kentucky. They had four sons and four daughters.
