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Montanya, J. D. L

legislator, congressman, was born in New York. He served two years in the assembly of that state; and was a representative in congress from New York from 1839 to 1841.

Montefiore, Joshua

lawyer, author, was born Aug. 10, 1762, in London, England. He was the author of Commercial and Notatorial Precedents; Commercial Dictionary: Traders' Compendium; United States Traders' Compendium; Law and Treatise on Bookkeeping; and Laws of Land and Sea. He died June 26, 1843, in St. Albans, Vt.

Montgomery, Alexander B

jurist, state senator, congressman, was born Dec. 11, 1837, in Hardin county, Ky. He was elected county judge of Hardin county, Ky., in 1870, serving till 1874; and he was elected to the state senate in 1877, serving till 1881. He was elected to the fiftieth, fifty-first, and fifty-second congresses, and re-elected to the fifty-third congress as a democrat.

Montgomery, Benjamin F

lawyer, politician, was born Feb. 28, 1834, in Richland county, Ohio. He received a liberal education in the common schools and at the academy of Ashland, Ohio.

He has attained success as an able lawyer in Colorado Springs, Colo.; and has been a delegate to four national democratic conventions. man.

Montgomery, Daniel

congress- He was a representative in congress from Pennsylvania from 1807 to 1809.

MONTGOMERY, GEORGE WASHING- TON, clergyman, author, was born April 6, 1810, in Portland, Maine. He is a universalist clergyman of Rochester, N. Y.; and the author of Illustrations of the Law of Kindness; and Sermons.

Montgomery, John

soldier, congressman, was born July 6, 1722, in Ireland. He served as captain in the expedition against the Indians under General John Forbes, his commission bearing the date of May 7, 1758. He was in other ways prominent in local affairs, and was county treasurer in 1767-76. He became a member of the continental congress. He died Sept. 3, 1808, in Carlisle, Pa.

Montgomery, John

congressman.

He was a representative in congress from Maryland from 1807 to 1811. He was also mayor of Baltimore.

MONTGOMERY, JOHN ALEXANDER, railroad president, was born Aug. 30, 1851, in Lewisburg, Vt. Since 1888 he has been president of the Mary Lee Coal and Railway company at Birmingham, Ala.

Montgomery, John Berrien

naval officer, was born Nov. 17, 1794, in Allentown, N. J. He served in the various wars of the United States; and in 1866 was placed on the retired list as rear admiral. In 1813 he received a sword and thanks of congress for services in Perry's victory on Lake Erie.

Montgomery, John G

lawyer, legislator, congressman, was born in 1805 in Northumberland, Pa. He was elected to the Pennsylvania state legislature in 1855; and was elected a member of the thirtyfifth congress from Pennsylvania, but died before taking his seat. He died April 24, 1857, in Danville, Pa.

Montgomery, William

congressman. He was a representative in congress from Pennsylvania from 1793 to 1795.

Montgomery, William

legislator, congressman, was born in Guilford county, N. C. He was elected to the North Carolina general assembly in 1824, where he served, with but one intermission, until 1834, when he was elected a representative in congress, and continued in that position until 1841. He died Nov. 27, 1844.

Monti, Luigi

educator, author, was born in 1810 in Sicily. He is an educator of New York city who appears in Longfellow's Tales of a Wayside Inn as The Young Sicilian. He is the author of An American Consul Abroad; and Leone, a novel.