Frank Andrew Munsey

1854 - 1925  (71 years)

• Name	Frank Andrew Munsey
  Birth	21 Aug 1854	Mercer, Somerset County, Maine, USA
  Gender	Male
  Occupation	publisher of magazines and newspapers
  _UID	0D1862030DCF43859239D229DA075ECBFE63
  Burial	Dec 1925	Lisbon Falls, Androscoggin County, Maine, USA
  	Hillside Cemetery
  Death	22 Dec 1925	New York, New York County, New York, USA
  Person ID	I46	William Muncy Descendants
  Last Modified	22 Mar 2019

  
  

  Father	Andrew Chauncey Munsey,   b. 13 Jun 1821, Barnston, Quebec, Canada d. 1 Jul 1907, Livermore Falls, Androscoggin County, Maine, USA (Age 86 years)
  Mother	Mary Jane Merritt Hopkins,   b. 27 Mar 1820, Harpswell, Cumberland County, Maine, USA d. 23 Aug 1882 (Age 62 years)
  Marriage	1847
  _UID	FCDF9F2735A94759B5D69F75D68E19407B1D
  Family ID	F25	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Event Map		Birth - 21 Aug 1854 - Mercer, Somerset County, Maine, USA Burial - Dec 1925 - Lisbon Falls, Androscoggin County, Maine, USA Death - 22 Dec 1925 - New York, New York County, New York, USA  = Link to Google Earth
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• Photos

  Munsey - Frank Andrew (publisher) the famous publisher

  
  

  Documents

  Munsey - Frank Andrew Genealogy A Munsey-Hopkins Genealogy by Daniel Ozro Smith Lowell; privately printed in Boston, 1920. Reprints available through Amazon. (check Amazon). A PDF file extract (10MB)can be viewed here. The PDF extract (part 1) deals only with the Munsey line.

  
  

• Notes

  Find A Grave Memorial #97127892 Occupation: Entrepreneur in magazine and newspaper publishing Before his death Munsey himself summed up his life this way: "I have no heirs. I am disappointed in my friendships. . . . I have forty million dollars, but what has it brought me? Not happiness." Information from: Who's Who in the World, 1912 Munsey, Frank Andrew: Publisher. Son of Andrew Chauncey and Mary Jane (Hopkins) Munsey. Born in Mercer, Me., Aug. 21, 1854. Introduced The Golden Argosy, juvenile weekly (now the adult monthly, The Argosy; 1898, launched Munsey's Weekley, later converting it into Munsey's Magazine; now also owns The All-Story Magazine, The Scrap Book, The Cavalier, The Railroad Man's Magazine, and four daily newspapers. Attended public schools of Maine. Has remained unmarried. Entered upon business career in country store; became mgr. of Western Union Telegraph office, Augusta Me.; located in New York, 1882. Clubs: Union League, New York, Yacht, Ardsley, Riding, Manhattan, Lawyers', Lambs, N.Y., Metropolitan, Chevy Chase (Washington). Author: "Afloat in a Great City," "The Boy Broker," "A Tragedy of Errors," "Under Fire" and "Derringforth."