JAMES MUNNS, Jr.

MUNNS

Posted By: Jake Tornholm (email)
Date: 4/20/2020 at 13:46:36

JAMES MUNNS, Jr., grain dealer at Corning, was horn in Butler county, Ohio, April 2, 1839, a son of James and Maria (Kitchen) Munns, who came to Adams county in 1860, settling on a farm in Quincy township, near the village of Quincy. They are still living, hale and hearty, on their old homestead.

Mr. Munns, of this sketch, had scarcely attained his majority when he enlisted in Company D, Twenty-ninth Iowa Volunteer Infantry, under Colonel Thomas H. Benton, Jr., one of the noted men of the State. He went to Council Bluffs, Iowa, St. Joseph, Missouri, and then South; was in the battle of Helena, the expedition up White river, Yazoo Pass expedition, the skirmish in Greenwood, Mississippi, and in many battles and skirmishes around Little Rock. Enlisting as a private, he was afterward promoted to First Sergeant, and Second and First Lieutenant, and served on Solomon’s staff as Division Ordance Officer and Acting Adjutant of his regiment; but fortunately he was never struck by a Rebel bullet.

After the war he followed farming until 1872, when he came to Corning and engaged in the grain trade as an employe and later for himself; and it is safe to say that no one has the confidence and respect of the farming community more than he. He is a prominent member of the G. A. R. and a stalwart Republican. November 23, 1865, he was married to Miss Frances M., daughter of Rev. Joseph A. Lovejoy, a Methodist minister and one of the beloved pioneers and landmarks of the early history of the church in the West. Mr. and Mrs. Munns have bad three children,
namely: Joseph, who died at the age of four years; Charles K., now a young man of brilliant prospects attending the Iowa Agricultural College at Ames; and Ruth Ella, the daughter, is a student in the Corning Academy. Mrs. Munn is a very enthusiastic member of the Congregational Church.