Born in
Great Barrington, Massachusetts, Munson's ancestors fought in the
American Revolutionary War, and his mother was a cousin of
Edwin Stanton. Munson attended
Lenox Academy, and received a
Bachelor of Laws degree from
Yale Law School in 1851. He entered private practice in the office of
Henry Dutton. In March 1865, he was appointed Associate Justice of the Montana Territorial Supreme Court by President Abraham Lincoln. Munson arrived in Helena, on July 9, 1865. When the Territorial Supreme court declared the second territorial legislature in March 1866 to be void, he was assigned the most remote of judicial districts. He resigned from the bench in 1868. Munson married Lucy A. Sanford on October 6, 1846, with whom he had two daughters and a son,
Edward Lyman Munson. He died in
New Haven, Connecticut, at the age of 86. ==References==