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OBITUARIES, AMERICAN. (MUXSTERY NAST.) 



Gynecology at the New York Polyclinic and at 

 Dartmouth College, and also was gynecologist 

 to Mount Sinai Hospital, consulting gynecolo- 

 gist to the Mothers' and Babies' and the Skin 

 and Cancer Hospitals; and consulting obstetri- 

 cian to the City Maternity Hospital. He was 

 editor of the American Journal of Obstetrics in 

 1872-'92; president of the New York Obstetrical 

 Society in 1886-'88; invented numerous instru- 

 ments for the practise of his specialty; and was 

 author of Obstetric Palpation (1880); Minor 

 Surgical Gynecology (1880); Appendix to Mid- 

 wifery of Cazeaux and Tamier (1884); and Preg- 

 nancy and the Puerperal State (1887). 



Munstery, Thomas Hoyer Munster, maltre 

 d'armes, born in Baltimore in 1814; died in 

 Chicago, Jan. 2, 1902. His mother was the 

 daughter of a famous Swedish beauty who was 

 reported to have been the morganatic wife of 

 King Frederick William II of Prussia, and his 

 father was a Danish nobleman, who was expelled 

 from the Danish court because of a duel that was 

 unfavorably regarded. He was afterward made 

 Governor of Santa Cruz, but left that place in 

 1812 and came with his wife to the United States 

 and lived for a time in Baltimore. They returned 

 to Denmark in 1820. When the boy Thomas was 

 fifteen years old, he entered the Danish navy and 

 served for three years. While in port at Rio 

 Janeiro he killed a man who had insulted him. 

 No action was taken against him in the matter, 

 however, and he soon went to Stockholm, where 

 he studied fencing and athletics under Dr. Linge, 

 inventor of the Swedish system of massage. Under 

 this instruction he became an expert swordsman 

 and developed phenomenal strength. In 1836 he 

 went to St. Petersburg as fencing-master and 

 commander of the body-guard of the Grand Duke 

 Constantino. For the amusement of the court, he 

 fought with every one that wished to test his 

 strength, including wild men from beyond the 

 frontier, and he became such a favorite that a 

 palace and large sums of money were given to 

 him. But because of an intrigue with one of the 

 ladies of the court he was exiled from Russia, and 

 went to Copenhagen with almost empty pockets. 

 He soon won enough money at cards, however, to 

 go to Berlin, where he boldly claimed the right 

 to a commission in the army on account of the 

 Hohenzollern blood inherited from his mother. 

 His story and his claim were not agreeable to 

 the reigning family, and he soon found himself 

 in prison at Spandau, from which, after a short 

 time, he was suddenly set free without a trial. 

 He never knew why he was released, but ascribed 

 it to the pleadings of his mother, the reputed 

 daughter of Frederick William II. After obtain- 

 ing his freedom, young Munstery became infatu- 

 ated with a lady in whom a Danish nobleman 

 was interested ; the two men fought a duel on her 

 account, and the nobleman was killed. Munstery 

 hurriedly departed for America and joined the 

 United States navy, seeing some service and re- 

 ceiving wounds, for the treatment of which he 

 was taken to the naval hospital at Portsmouth, 

 N. H. After his recovery he went to Philadelphia 

 and sold cigars for a time, but his love of ad- 

 venture made him restless, and he soon went to 

 Nicaragua, where he found a revolution in prog- 

 ress, in which he joined, killing several men and 

 receiving severe wounds himself. From Nicaragua 

 he went to Cuba with Narciso Lopez, thence to 

 the United States of Colombia, where he fought 

 for the dictator, Jos6 Maria Mello. He came 

 very near being .hanged, but escaped to New 

 York, and in 1855 he returned to Copenhagen 

 just in time to act as second in a duel for the 



Spanish chargG d'affaires. After this he went 

 to Madrid, where he displayed his skill in arms 

 and his wonderful strength for the amusement of 

 royalty and the nobility, and became a high 

 favorite, with gold showered upon him. The 

 Spanish Government sent him to Cuba to teach 

 the use of the sword and bayonet to the soldiers 

 there. In Cuba he had many adventures, and 

 a jealous rival in love bribed a barber to dis- 

 able him. The barber had been summoned to 

 bleed him for a fever, but he treacherously cut 

 a tendon in the sword-arm, supposing that the 

 injury would be permanent. Munstery asserted 

 that, thanks to the tricks in massage and sword 

 practise learned from Dr. Linge, he was able to 

 overcome the effect of this injury, and as soon 

 as he could use bis arm again he assembled a 

 band of 50 adventurers, and they went to Hon- 

 duras to take part in a revolution in that country. 

 The whole band was captured, and Munstery was 

 put under a guard of 8 men. He killed 3 of them 

 and broke the bayonets of 3 more, and the other 

 2 ran away. He made his escape, and was about 

 to leave the country when President Guardiola 

 heard of his exploit with the revolutionists and 

 made him a general. The hero fought the strong- 

 est man in Honduras before an audience of 20,000 

 people and won. He became a popular favorite, 

 and all went well with him until he aroused the 

 jealousy of the President by paying too marked 

 attention to Madame Guardiola. He was sen- 

 tenced to fight a bull in the public arena, and one 

 week was allowed him to prepare for the contest. 

 He had in the city an American friend, Dr. Wells, 

 who helped him to buy 6 bulls, and with these 

 animals he practised a week, killing one bull every 

 day. He won the fight in the arena against a 

 bull with filed horns. Guardiola, still angry, tried 

 to get rid of him by forcing him to go to the 

 frontier and fight a wild tribe that was making 

 trouble. Munstery was captured and tied to a 

 tree overnight, to be killed in the morning. He 

 managed to escape, and made his way to San 

 Salvador, and thence to Chiapas, gathering about 

 him 12 followers. At Chiapas he was made chief 

 of cavalry in a war against Miramon and Ortega. 

 He became separated from his companions, and it 

 was said that he alone fought 10 men, killing 

 them all. He discovered Ortega's stolen treasure, 

 amounting to $100,000, which he hid, but he after- 

 ward lost the maps showing where he had buried 

 it. He was wounded in this last adventure so 

 badly that he determined to fight no more, and he 

 returned to the United States and settled in 

 Chicago, where he became the best known ma it re 

 d'armes in the country. Among the many actors 

 he trained in fencing were Edwin Forrest, Edward 

 L. Davenport, Junius Brutus Booth, Jr., Edwin 

 Booth, and Francis Wilson. General Munstery 

 was a man of distinguished presence and charm- 

 ing personality. He had acted as principal in 20 

 duels, and as second in 33. 



Nast, Thomas, caricaturist, born in Lamlnu. 

 Bavaria, Sept. 27, 1840; died in Guayaquil. Ecua- 

 dor, Dec. 7, 1902. He went to New York with 

 his mother and sister in June, 1846, attended the 

 public schools for a short time, and when four- 

 teen years old was employed as doorkeeper at 

 Bryant's gallery of paintings. In 1855 he ap- 

 plied to Frank Leslie for employment as a 

 draughtsman, and began work on a salary of $5 

 a week, studying at the School of Design in the 

 evenings. He soon acquired a local reputation, 

 which became international in 1860 when he went 

 to England to make sketches of a prize fight for 

 the Illustrated News. Next he drifted to Italy, 

 where he followed Garibaldi's campaign. He was 



