Biography of
Joseph Orlando MunsonBorn July 21, 1840, in Middlebury, New Haven County, Conn. After graduation, supplied at Litchfield, Conn., till April, 1886.
1866, Joined New York East Conference. Successive appointments: 1886-7, Litchfield; 1868-9, New Haven, West Chapel Street; 1870, Madison; 1871, Windsor Locks; 1872-4, Milford; 1875, Cheshire; 1876-7, Durham; 1878-9, Windsor; 1880, Southington; 1881-3, Redding; 1884-5, Nichols and Long Hill; 1886-8, New Milford; 1889-91, Sy; 1891, supplied South Britain; 1892-5, South Britain; 1896-8, Middlebury; 1899-1900, Centre Moriches, L. I.; 1901-3, Westhampton; 1904-, Amityville, Simpson Church.
"Enjoy religion, good health, and delightful relations with my people."
Married, Oct. 5, 1870, Miss Henrietta J. Smith, of New Haven, Conn.
Children: Ralph Ira, born Dec. 24, 1873. Graduate of New Haven High School; now Superintendent of Accounts in New Haven Gas Co. Active in church work. For several years Superintendent of Sunday School, Summerfield Church, New haven. Married Mary J. Pollard, in 1898.
Clarence Augustus, born Feb. 6, 1886. Prepared for college at Centenary Collegiate Institute, Hackettstown, N.J. Now a Sophomore at Wesleyan.
Address: Amityville, L. I., N.Y.
Source: History of Class of 1865 Wesleyan University, Fortieth Reunion, Middletown Connecticut, June 27, 1905.