Charles Allen Munn (1859–1924), was an American editor and publisher, who oversaw Scientific American after the editorship of his father, Orson Desaix Munn.[1][2] His nephew Orson Desaix Munn II succeeded him as editor of the magazine. He was also a patron of the arts, and after his death bequeathed his collection of early American paintings, prints, and silver to the Metropolitan Museum of Art.[3]
Desaix , father of Charles Allen, Joined Alfred Ely Beach, son of the Beach who owned The Sun, in the purchase, in 1846, of a year-old magazine called the ...