MUNSELL, Joel, American printer: b. Northfield, Mass., 14 April 1808; d. Albany, N. Y., 15 Jan. 1880. He established himself in Albany in 1827, and was publisher and editor of the New York State Mechanic from 1841 to 1843. At various times he was thepub lisher of the Unionist, the Albany Daily State Register, Morning Express and Statesman, and other journals. Munsell made a close study of the art of printing, in its history and appli cation, and his collection of works on the sub-. ject, the largest in America, was in partpur chased by the State for the New York State Library. He contributed papers to the of the Albany Institute, of which he was a founder, and published (Outlines of the History of Printing> (1839) ; 'Annals of Al bany) (1849-59) ; (Every-Day Book of History and (1856) • of Paper and Paper-Making' (1857; enlarged 1870): and 'Manual of the First Lutheran Church of Al bany, 1670-1870' (1871) MUNSEY, Frank Andrew, Amer ican publisher: b. Mercer, Me., 21 Aug. 1854.
After receiving a common school education he became manager of a telegraph office in Augusta, Me. He went to New York in 1882 to become editor and publisher of The Golden Argosy, a juvenile weekly, which he afterward changed into a monthly for adults under the style of The Argosy. Munsey's Weekly ap peared in 1889 and after issuing this for one year he transformed it also into a monthly, calling it Munsey's Magazine. He now owns The Argosy, The Railroad Man's Magazine, and the All-Story Weekly and the daily news papers New York Sun and Baltimore News. He was a pioneer in the publication of cheap illustrated magazines, Munsev's being the first magazine to be sold at ten cents a copy. He is a member of many clubs in New York City and elsewhere and is the author of several books: