Montague, Charles Howard – Montgomery, William Alexan- Der
Montague, Charles Howard
journalist, author, was born in 1858 in Massachusetts. He was a journalist of Boston, city editor of The Globe; and the author of The Romance of the Lilies; The Face of Rosenfel; Two Strokes of the Bell; The Doctor's Mistake; and The Countess Muta. He died in 1889.
Montague, Robert L
jurist, legislator, congressman, was born May 23, 1819, in Middlesex county, Va. He served in the confederate congress of Virginia from 1863 until it ceased to exist. In 1873 he was elected judge of the eighth judicial circuit, and for several years he was president of the General Baptist association of Virginia. He died March 4, 1880.
Montague, William Lewis
clergyman, author, was born April 6, 1831, in Belchertown, Mass. He is a congregational clergyman, professor of modern languages at Amherst college since 1862; and the author of Comparative Spanish Grammar; Manual of Italian Grammar; and Introduction to Italian Literature.
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, Joseph H
journalist, lawyer, was born March 19, 1848, in St.
Albans, Vt. He learned the printer's trade in all its branches; served one year as a soldier in the army of the gulf; was admitted to the bar; and was the editor of the successful daily and weekly newspaper of his native city before he was twenty-one years of age. During 1873-78 he was the editor of the Baldwin Bulletin, Hammond Independent, and Wilson Pioneer, three papers issued from one office in Wisconsin. During 1878-80 he was a writer for the St. Paul Globe and the Minneapolis Tribune; and then became proprietor and editor of the Minneapolis Herald. Since 1880 he has practiced law in St. Albans, Vt.
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, Jabez
educator, scientist, was born Oct. 5, 1839, in Plainfield, Ind. He received his education at the Michigan university, from which institution he received in course the degrees of B. S., M. S., and Ph. D. During 1867-79 he was professor of science at the Woodstock college, Ontario; and while teaching there he raised money and built the largest astronomical observatory in the dominion at that time; and for nine years he there filled the position of director of the chief meteorological station. During 1881-83 he taught physics and chemistry in the Indianapolis High school; and during 1883-89 filled the chair of natural science in the Kalamazoo college, Michigan. Since 1890 he has been engaged in the Ann Arbor High school as teacher of astronomy, botany and chemistry.
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, Joseph
congressman. He was a delegate from Pennsylvania to the continental congress from 1780 to 1784. He died Oct. 14, 1794, in Harrisburg, Pa.
Montgomery, Justin Robert M
lawyer, jurist, was born May 12, 1849, in Eaton Rapids, Mich. Since 1877 he has practiced law in Grand Rapids, Mich.; and was assistant United States attorney from that time until 1881. In that year he was elected judge of the seventeenth judicial circuit; was re-elected and served until 1888. In 1891 he was elected a justice of the supreme court of Michigan for term expiring in 1901.
Montgomery, Marcus Whitman
clergyman, author, was born in 1839 in New York. He was a congregational clergyman, instructor in Chicago Theological seminary since 1890; and the author of History of Jay County, Indiana; A Wind from the Holy Spirit; and The Mormon Delusion. He died in 1894.
Montgomery, Martin Van Bu- Ren
soldier, lawyer, legislator, was born Oct. 20, 1840, in Eaton Rapids, Mich. In 1870 he was elected a representative in the Michigan state legislature and served two years. In 1875 he moved to Lansing, Mich.; in 1876 was a delegate to the democratic national convention; and in 1885 was appointed commissioner of patents in the department of the interior at Washington. In 1887 ne became associate judge of the supreme court of Columbia. farm at
Montgomery, Richard
soldier, was born Dec. 2, 1736, in Ireland. He entered the British army, and was shortly afterward ordered to America. He returned to Europe, but came back to America in 1773, and purchased King's Bridge, N. Y.
In 1775 he was elected to represent Dutchess county in the first New York provincial convention. The same year he was appointa ed a brigadier-general; and was killed at the battle of Quebec, Dec. 31, 1775. A marble monument was erected to his memory in New York city.
Montgomery, Thomas
congressman, was born in Nelson county, Va. He was a representative in congress from Kentucky from 1813 to 1815, and again from 1821 to 1823. He died April 2, 1828.
Montgomery, Thomas Harris- On
president of the American Fire Insurance company, was born Feb. 23, 1830, in Philadelphia, Pa. He attended the university of Pennsylvania, and in 1851 graduated from the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy. Since 1859 he has been a fire underwriter, and since 1882 president of the American Fire Insurance company of Philadelphia. He is a member of the Pennsylvania and New York Historical societies; of the sons of the Revolution, Colonial Wars, Colonial Society of Pennsylvania, and various other orders; and is prominent in the business and public affairs of his city and state.
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.
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.