Munsey, Barton (1812-1892)

Name:

Munsey, Barton (1812-1892)

Title:

Surgeon, U.S. Army, Civil War

Born:

03/09/1812

Birthplace:

Gilford, NH

Died:

02/06/1892

Death Location:

Gloucester, MA

Residence:

Gilford, NH 1812-1830, 1833, 1834, 1880-
Deerfield, NH 1830-
Manchester, NH 1840-1846; History of Manchester).
South America -- late 1840s probably
Wilmington, NC 1850s
Virden, Il
St. Louis, MO 1875
Macoupin, IL 1870
Gloucester, MA 1880, 1890, 1892

Nationality:

American

Occupation:

Silversmith and Watchmaker, Manchester, 1840-1844
Homeopathic Physician and Dentist, 1846-

Father:

Munsey, George Washington (1782-1861)

Mother:

Barton, Hannah (1784-1886)

Relations:

Sold stock to silversmith Jonathan L. Kenniston, Manchester, NH, 1844.
Influenced by Dr. Atwood, homeopathic physician in Manchester, NH; Dr. Atwood later became a student of Dr. Barton Munsey. Married (2nd wife) Mary E. Weeks, who also became a homeopathic physician.

Spouse:

1) Lucy Buzzell, 1834
2) Eliza M. Ambler, 1854
3) Mary E. Weeks, 1864

Children:

By first marriage: female child listed in Manchester, NH, census of 1840 (no name given)

Notes:

1844. Emery's Manchester, Amoskeag & Piscataquog Directory and Annual Advertiser... (Manchester, NH: J. P. Emery, 1844), 56.

William Harvey King. History of Homeopathy and Its Institutions in America. Chapter XXXVII, Homeopathy in North Carolina.

History of Manchester, Hillsborough County, New Hampshire. Chapter XXIV.

Charles S. Parsons, New Hampshire Silver. (Cranbury, NJ: Adams Brown Company, 1983), 115.

Ezra S. Stearns, Editor. Genealogical and Family History of the State of New Hampshire...Volume II. (New York: the Lewis Publishing Company, 1908), 737.

"Amoskeag and Manchester, N.H.," Manchester Magazine, February 22, 1840, 2.

Langsford Cemetery, Gloucester, MA