Henry A Munson 1814-1877.

Henry is a distant cousin of mine. I read about him in The Munson Record. I also googled him. He had a role in an interesting phase in history. He was an assistant of Samuel F. B. Morse for 19 to 20 years.

Samuel Morse

He helped Morse develop a revolutionary method for printing maps in color.The method was named cerography. Later he helped in the development of the telegraph. A person is quoted in The Munson Record saying that Henry developed the code that is now in use as the Morse Code.