The History of the Yakima Valley, Washington, Comprising Yakima, Kittitas and
Benton Counties, The S.J. Clarke Publishing Co., 1919, Volume II, page 223

WILLIAM M. MUNSELL, M. D.

Dr. William M. Munsell, physician and surgeon of Grandview who has practiced
there since 1913 and who has ever kept in touch with the trend of modern
professional thought and methods, was born in Schuyler county, Missouri,
November 17, 1871, a son of Ward L. and Margaret J. (Logan) Munsell, who were
natives of Ohio and of Kentucky respectively. They became early settlers of
Missouri, where the father followed the occupation of farming, and he also bcame
a prominent figure in political circles there. He frequently was called upon to
fill positions of public honor and trust and died while serving as circuit clerk
in 1878. His wife passed away the same year.

Dr. Munsell was reared by his maternal grandfather, Addison Logan, for he was
but a young lad of seven years when left an orphan. His grandfather was a native
of Kentucky and for many years followed farming in Missouri. Dr. Munsell
acquired a public school education and, having determined to make the practice
of medicine his life work, he then entered the Missouri Medical College of St.
Louis, from which he was graduated as a member of the class of 1895. He
afterward pursued post-graduate work in Chicago in 1910, making a specialty of
diseases of the eye, ear, nose and throat. He entered upon the active practice
of his profession at Downing, Missouri, where he remained through 1896 and 1897
and then went to Granger, Missouri, where he continued to reside until 1910.
Following his post-graduate work in Chicago he came to Yakima county,
Washington, and purchased a ranch near Grandview. He was out of practice for
three years but in 1913 resumed his professional duties and has since practiced
at Grandview, having sold his ranch. He is accorded a large general practice and
does considerable surgical work, for which he is splendidly qualified. He is
cool and collected in emergencies, possesses steady nerve and hand and,
moreover, has intimate knowledge of anatomy and the component parts of the human
body together with the onslaughts made upon it by disease. He is acting as
local surgeon for the Northern Pacific Railway and for the Oregon-Washington
Railway, in addition to which he does a large amount of private surgical work.

On the 26th of March, 1895, Dr. Munsell was married to Miss Artie B. Job, a
native of Missouri and a daughter of Taylor job, a farmer of that state. They
now have one child, Helen Louise, at home. Dr. Munsell is a stalwart champion of
the Masonic fraternity and of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and in the
latter lodge he has held all of the chairs. He has likewise filled all of the
offices in the Modern Woodmen camp to which he belongs and he has membership
with the Royal Neighbors and with the Elks lodge at Yakima, and the Foresters of
America. He attends the Presbyterian church and his political endorsement is
given to the democratic party but he does not seek nor desire office, preferring
to concentrate his time, energies and efforts upon his professional duties,
which have constantly developed in volume and importance. In September, 1918,
the Doctor offered his services to his country and after passing the required
examination at Camp Lewis was appointed captain in the Medical Corps, but before
being called into active service the armistice was signed. His commission,
however, runs for five years.

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Submitted to the Washington Bios Project in December 2007 by Jeffrey L. Elmer.
Submitter has no additional information about the subject of this article.