Munson Aldrich Havens

Munson Aldrich Havens was an American writer born in 1873 and died in 1942. Public-domain library records and catalog entries identify him as the author of Old Valentines; a love story, published in 1914.

Archival and historical sources also show that he had a substantial career outside literature. He joined the Cleveland Chamber of Commerce in 1898, served as its executive secretary from 1905 to 1938, and was later noted as an editor of The Clevelander, a Chamber publication.

That mix of storytelling and civic work gives his career an interesting shape: he was not only a novelist, but also a prominent figure in Cleveland’s business and public life. Surviving online records about him are fairly limited, but they present him as a writer remembered chiefly for Old Valentines and as a long-serving organizer in the city he helped promote.