Brigadier General Edmund Munger

Edmund Munger, born in 1763 in Norfolk, Connecticut, later moved to Vermont and in 1799 his wife Eunice Kellogg and their five children traveled by wagon and flat-bottomed boat to claim land in Washington Township. A blacksmith by trade and a farmer, he took a deep interest in community affairs, was elected a Montgomery County Commissioner in 1804, served in Ohio's Seventh General Assembly four years later, and was Clerk of Washington Township from 1809 to 1826. In 1809 his militia men elected him Brigadier General to command the Second Brigade, First Division of the Ohio Militia, and during the War of 1812 Governor Return J. Meigs instructed him to defend the frontier within his command, where his quick action protected settlers and kept vital supply routes open. Munger died at his farm here in 1850 and was buried next to his wife in the Old Centerville Cemetery.

Centerville, Ohio · United States