About Charles Allen Munn
Lived 1859 – 1924 (aged 64–65). Charles Allen Munn was an American journalist.
Charles Allen Munn (1859–1924) was an American editor and publisher who oversaw Scientific American after the editorship of his father, Orson Desaix Munn. His nephew Orson Desaix Munn II succeeded him as editor of the magazine. He was also a patron of the arts, and after his death bequeathed his collection of early American paintings, prints, and silver to the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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Who was Charles Allen Munn?
American magazine editor
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Charles Allen Munn was born in 1859 in New York City.
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Charles Allen Munn died on 3 April 1924.
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Charles Allen Munn was a journalist.
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Charles Allen Munn was American.
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