Oscar V. Munn, insurance agent and dealer in real estate, in Freeport, has a conveniently equipped office at No. 123 Stephenson street, and is representing some of the best companies in the United States. He is adjuster for several Chicago and western companies, and has had an experience of thirty-seven years, which, with his natural adaptability to this brand of business, has contributed to make his services valuable.

Mr. Munn was born near Odgensburg, in St Lawrence County, N. Y., June 4, 1820. His parents, Abel and Susannah (Barnum) Munn, were natives of Vermont, the latter born in Addison County. The paternal grandfather of our subject was a Captain in the Revolutionary War. The Munn family is of Scotch ancestry, the original stock emigrating from the Highlands in the seventeenth century. Grandfather Stephen Barnum was of English descent, and was one of the earliest settlers of Connecticut. Abel Munn, the father of our subject, removed after his marriage, and was a resident of St. Lawrence County, N. Y., until 1848. He then came to this county, locating in Lancaster Township, where his death occurred in 1856. The family which ten remained consisted of the mother with four sons and one daughter. The latter, Mary A., is the wife of A. W. Hart, of Freeport. The boys were named respectively, Orin B.; Oscar V.; our subject; Lucius W. and Loyal L.

Mr. Munn passed his boyhood and youth on the farm in his native county, receiving his education in the district school, and remained with his parent until eighteen years old. He then went to Vermont and worked on a farm twelve years. He came to this county in 1850, bringing with him his wife and son. He had been married in Addison County, Vt., in January, 1847, to Miss Lydia F. Sunderland, and they became the parents of one child, Leslie A., who is now a traveling salesman for a stove house in Buffalo, N. Y. Mr. Munn at one time served as Assessor of Freeport, but, aside from that, has had little to do with public affairs. He is a decided Republican, politically, and the active supporter of those measures tending to the well-being of the community.

Contributed by Carol Parrish from Portrait and Biographical Album of Stephenson County, Ill. (1888), p. 585