Ezekiel W. Mundy (1833-1916) was born in Metuchen, New Jersey, and died in Syracuse, New York. In the early 1860s he studied theology at the University of Rochester, earning A.B. and M.A. degrees, and then graduated from Rochester Theological Seminary. He moved to Syracuse and served as the pastor of the First Baptist Church for three years, subsequently organizing an independent church and serving as its pastor for 13 years. In 1873 he married Emily Mundy (b. Kendall). In 1879 he began working for the Syracuse Public Library while also continuing his theological studies, and he was ordained an Episcopalian clergyman in 1883. In 1904 he earned a Doctor of Literature degree from Syracuse University and was recognized as an expert in local and American history. Upon his retirement in 1915 he was named librarian emeritus, and the Mundy Branch of the Onondaga County Library was named after him. In 1886 Mundy wrote to Mary Baker Eddy to order a copy of Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures for the Syracuse Central Library.

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