Los Angeles County, CA, Biographies

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J. A. MUNK, Los Angeles
 
Born in Ohio, Nov. 9, 1847. Served in Civil War as private Company I, 178th 
Regt., O. V. I.; then attended Mount Union Coll., Alliance, Ohio; grad. Eclectic 
Medical Institute, Cincinnati, 1869. Now Dean of California Eclectic Medical 
Coll.; Professor of Climatology, Hygiene and Public Health, and frequent 
contributor to Eclectic medical literature. Dr. Munk began collecting an Arizona 
library in 1884; first published his Arizona Bibliography in 1900 (second 
edition in 1908, with 3,000 titles); in 1905 published a volume of Arizona 
Sketches. His Arizona library now contains 4,000 items and has been donated to 
the Southwest Museum. Mem. Grand Army of the Republic and Southwest Society of 
the Archaeological Institute of America. Now President of the National Eclectic 
Medical Association.
 
SOURCE: Greater Los Angeles & Southern California Portraits & Personal 
Memoranda, Lewis Publishing Company, 1910, P.46