Nelson W. Munger

MUNGER, SHAW

Posted By: Judy Wight Branson (email)
Date: 10/10/2004 at 11:15:15

Nelson W. Munger, Winterset; is a native of Palmer, Hampton county, Mass., where he was born February 25, 1834, and his youth was engaged as a clerk in the store of his brother; he came to this county in 1854, and engaged in selling goods; in 1865, in company with J. T. White, he erected a woolen factory, and fitted it with machinery of the best quality, and gave employment to about twenty hands, and it was managed successfully until it was burned down in 1877, he has been identified with all the material interest that has marked the growth of the place, and what he has accumulated has been by fair dealing and industrious toil; he married Miss Jane M. Shaw in 1856; she is a native of Massachusetts; has one daughter: Jennie L.

Taken from the book, "The History of Madison County, Iowa, 1879" page 547