Frank Andrew Munsey (1854-1925), American publisher, built a newspaper and magazine empire in the early 20th century. Frank Munsey was born in Mercer, Maine, on Aug. 21, 1854, the son of poor but hardworking parents. A sober industrious boy, he went to...

Frank A.Munsey was a vocal proponent of the application of business methods and concepts to the newspaper business from the turn of the century into the 1920s. A man who made great sums of money in the magazine field, especially with Munsey's, he...

As a publisher of magazines and newspapers, Frank A. Munsey was a man ahead of his time. His methods of applying the principles of industrialism to publishing are echoed throughout the publishing business today, and although he never succeeded in...

In 1893, a former telegraph operator named Frank A. Munsey made his namesake the first nationally distributed and mass-read magazine. Munsey, who had grown up poor in rural Maine, recognized that most of the growing American middle class could not...

Frank Andrew Munsey (21 August 1854 – 22 December 1925) was an American newspaper and magazine publisher and author. He was born in Mercer, Maine but spent most of his life in New York City. The city of Munsey Park is named for him. Munsey is credited...

VIRGINIA BEACH -- Lt. Cmdr. Rosemary F. Munsey, U.S. Navy retired, 47, a resident of Chesopeian Colony, departed this life Sunday, Aug. 11, 1996, after a long-term illness at the Portsmouth Naval Hospital. She was the daughter of the late William Friedrich and...

Munsey Products Inc. of Little Rock began selling toaster-ovens to Sam Walton in 1955, seven years before he founded Wal-Mart Stores Inc. That contract will come to an end early next year, a casualty of the cheaper imports being built in Chinese...