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Oswego Palladium
Tuesday, September 15, 1891

        OBITUARY
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        CAPTAIN JOHN MUNSON

           CAPTAIN JOHN MUNSON, and old and highly respected citizen of
        Oswego, died early this morning at his residence in West Bridge
        district. CAPTAIN MONSON has for many years been in feeble health
        and his death was not unexpected.
           JOHN MUNSON was born in 1807 at New Haven, Connecticut, and
        spent most of his early life at that place. At fifteen years of age
        he made his first sea voyage and in 1829 he married MISS ANNA *.
        COLLINS, of New Haven, and six weeks after his marriage he sailed
        from New York on the steamer Potosis for a three years voyage to
        China and South America. The captain of the vessel was taken sick
        in Calio, Chili, and MR. MUNSON, as first mate brought the ship to
        New York. On his return from this voyage, MR. MUNSON went into the
        piecing and grooving business in New York city, his being the first
        machine of the kind set up in that metropolis. He carried this on
        for two years, but being unable to get his works insured, he sold
        out the plant and went to Detroit with a view to locating there,
        but being displeased with the place went to Cleveland, where he
        engaged in the wholesale and retail clothing business. He failed in
        business there, and then began sailing on the great lakes, his
        first vessel being the Superior, which operated on Lake Erie and
        the upper lakes. In 1850, at the time of the gold feverin the West,
        he went to California, and in 1855 came East again and located in
        Buffalo, where he was in the employ of the Northwestern Insurance
        company. In 1861 he came to Oswego as inspector of the Northwestern
        company's wrecking tugs. In 1870, while DR. CLARK was collector of
        the port, he was appointed light house tender and held that posi-
        tion until 1883, when he retired from active life. CAPTAIN MONSON
        was an Episcopalian and in politics a staunch Republican. Since the
        death, two years ago, of his wife with whom he had lived for sixty
        years, he has gradually declined in health. There survive him four
        children, EUGENE D. MUNSON and MRS. JOSEPHINE J. DODGE of Oswego,
        JOHN MUNSON of Dakota, and MRS. ELLA MILLS of New York.
           The only vessel which CAPTAIN MONSON sailed on Lake Ontario was
        the schooner Florida, owned by the late THOMAS S. MOTT and this was
        the last one he sailed. On Lake Erie and the upper lakes he com-
        manded the ship Superior, the brig Emigrant, the brig General
        Worth, the schooner Robert Bruce and Trenton and the propeller
        Emigrant.

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