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M. T. (Moses Thurston) Runnels
1830–1902
Best remembered for preserving New Hampshire local history and family records, this 19th-century Congregational minister turned careful research into books that still matter to historians and genealogists. His work combines town history, church life, and family memory in a way that feels both practical and deeply personal.
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Soil and Water Pollution : Presented to the American Public Health Association at New Orleans, Dec. 1880
by M. T. (Moses Thurston) Runnels
About the author
Moses Thurston Runnels (1830–1902), often listed as M. T. Runnels, was a New Hampshire minister and historical writer. Contemporary title pages identify him as Rev. M. T. Runnels, A.M., and as pastor of the Congregational Church in Sanbornton, New Hampshire.
He is best known for A Genealogy of the Runnels and Reynolds Families in America (1873), a substantial family history, and for History of Sanbornton, New Hampshire (1882). He is also credited as a contributor to History of Plymouth, New Hampshire, showing the range of his interest in town history, genealogy, and community record-keeping.
Runnels wrote in the tradition of 19th-century local historians who saw family stories, church records, and town memory as worth saving before they disappeared. That makes his books useful not only as historical sources, but also as a window into how New England communities remembered themselves.