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Montgomery, William

lawyer, congressman, was born April 11, 1819, in Canton, Pa. He was elected a representative in congress from Pennsylvania in 1856, serving in the thirty-fifth congress; and was re-elected to the thirty-sixth congress. He died April 28, 1870, in Washington, Pa. MONTGOMERY, WILLIAM ALEXAN- DER, soldier, farmer, lawyer, legislator, was born Oct. 18, 1844, in Winston county, Miss. He left the Union university of Murfreesboro, Tenn., and enlisted in the twelfth regiment, Mississippi infantry; and after twelve months joined cavalry service, was promoted to captain, and was engaged in the principal fights and skirmishes. After the war he went to the law school of Lexington, Ky., and has been a successful lawyer and farmer of Edwards, Miss. In 1873 he served as a member of the Mississippi state senate.

He was among the first to raise the cry against carpet bag rule in Mississippi, and in 1875 commanded the citizen forces that went to Jackson to demand that the negro militia companies be disbanded, and was successful in that demand.