Monson, accompanied by Henry B. Eyring, shakes hands with George W. Bush on May 29, 2008, in the Church Administration Building in Salt Lake City, Utah.

" Influenced by Chamberlain, Salisbury sanctioned Sir Edmund Monson, British Ambassador in Paris, to be more assertive in negotiations.

Monson was founded on February 8, 1822 by an act of the state legislature.

Previously the town was part of a piece of land granted to both Hebron Academy and Monson Academy by the state of Massachusetts in 1811.

Monson is also referenced in the book The Maine Woods by Henry David Thoreau wherein a drawing of moose antlers depicting the direction and names of both Blanchard and Monson, and the town is mentioned in other sections of the book.

Throughout its history, Monson has been greatly surpassed by its neighbors to the north by means of tourism.

Residents of the town due to a ruling by the MSAD 68 Board of Directors decided to close Monson Elementary after the 2008-2009 school year.

Brimfield is bordered by Sturbridge on the east, Holland and Wales on the south, Monson and Palmer on the west, and Warren on the north.

Monson was hit by a devastating EF3 tornado on June 1, 2011 that destroyed an extensive amount of the town.

Monson also had a large granite quarry that was opened by Rufus Flynt, later owned by his oldest son William Flynt.

Monson is bordered on the north by Palmer, on the east by Brimfield and Wales, on the south by Stafford, CT, and on the west by Hampden and Wilbraham.

Wales is bounded on the west by Monson ; on the south by Stafford, Connecticut and Union, Connecticut ; on the east by Holland ; and on the north by Brimfield.

* In 1770, by act of the General Court, Hollis annexed a portion of the town of Monson when its charter was repealed by its own request.

In 1635, Owersby-based local landowner, Sir John Monson drained the Ancholme valley by cutting a straight new channel making two rivers at Brigg, which made the town less vulnerable to flooding.

The town is bordered by Ludlow and Wilbraham on the southwest, Belchertown on the northwest, Ware on the northeast, Warren on the east, Brimfield on the southeast, and Monson on the south.

Wilbraham is bordered by the City of Springfield to the west, Town of Ludlow to the north, Towns of Palmer and Monson to the east, Town of Hampden to the South and the Town of East Longmeadow to the southwest.

* Monson H. Hayes Statistical Digital Signal Processing and Modeling, Wiley, 1996, ISBN 0-471-59431-8

# Monson H. Goudge, Liberal ( 1873 – 1878 )

* 1927 – Thomas S. Monson, American religious leader and author, 16th President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

* Don Monson: Andreas Capellanus, Scholasticism, and the Courtly Tradition.

The current president is Thomas S. Monson.

The current prophet of the LDS Church is Thomas S. Monson.

Some of the organization's most famous current members include Noam Chomsky, Tom Morello, mixed martial arts fighter Jeff Monson and anthropologist David Graeber.

** William Monson, British admiral ( d. 1643 )

A major slating operation existed in Monson, Maine, during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

The slate found in Monson is usually a dark purple to blackish color, and many local structures are still roofed with slate tiles.

The roof of St. Patrick's Cathedral was made of roofing slate from Monson, as is the headstone of John F. Kennedy.

* Mormon Pope, a slang term for the President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, currently Thomas S. Monson.

Monson is a town in Piscataquis County, Maine, United States.

The town is located on Route 15 which is a somewhat major route north to the well known Moosehead Lake Region, to which Monson is sometimes considered a gateway.

It was named after Monson, Massachusetts.

Large-scale slate operations required construction of the Monson Railroad in 1883 ; and two foot gauge locomotives transported slate and passengers to the larger Bangor and Aroostook Railroad in Abbot until 1943.

The slate from Monson makes up the Kennedy headstones in Washington D. C.

Oaks ( far right ) with President of the Church | LDS Church President Thomas S. Monson ( left ) and President of the United States | U. S. President Barack Obama ( center ) in the Oval Office on 20 July 2009, presenting a personal volume of President Obama's family history as a gift from the The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints | LDS Church.

| Jeff Monson

| Jeff Monson

Church President Thomas S. Monson and his Apostle ( Latter Day Saints ) were in attendance.

President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints ( Mormon ), Thomas S. Monson, states his family lineage to have originated in Rutherglen.

After two years in Yonkers, New York, the family moved to Longmeadow, Massachusetts, where Santiago attended Longmeadow High School and graduated from Wilbraham & Monson Academy in 1983.

The Monson family descends from Thomas Monson, of Carleton, Lincolnshire.

He married Ursula Oxenbridge, daughter of Sir Robert Oxenbridge of Hurstbourne in Hampshire, through which marriage the manor of Broxbourne came into the Monson family.

Lewis Monson succeeded to the Watson estates on the death of his cousin Thomas Watson, 3rd Earl of Rockingham, assumed the surname of Watson in lieu of Monson and was created Baron Sondes in 1760 ( his great-grandson was created Earl Sondes in 1880 ; see this title for more information on this branch of the family ).

Several other members of the Monson family have gained distinction.

The family surname and the title of the barony, Monson, is pronounced " Munson ".

Thomas S. Monson, current president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, quotes, in a 1991 speech, prison warden Kenyon J. Scudder from a 1961 Reader's Digest article, to tell a story of a man whose family uses the white ribbon as a sign of forgiveness, and cites the story as the precursor to the tradition of the yellow ribbon for welcome home and forgiveness: