"COUNTIES OF MORGAN, MONROE & BROWN, INDIANA. HISTORICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL."
CHARLES BLANCHARD, EDITOR. CHICAGO: F. A. BATTEY & CO. PUBLISHERS. 1884.
F. A. BATTEY. F. W. TEPPLE
JACKSON TOWNSHIP & MORGANTOWN
PAGE 257
GEORGE M. MONTGOMERY, hardware merchant at Morgantown, is a native of
Johnson County, Ind., and is the second child of his parents, Duncan and
Lillis (Holman) Montgomery, the former a native of Scotland, the latter of
Indiana. Mr. Montgomery emigrated to America in 1832. George M. was born
December 15, 1853; he was reared a farmer,and worked thereat and attended
school until he was sixteen years old, at which time he became a cripple,
and thus incapacitated from farm labor, although he is owner of 137 1/2
acres of excellent land, improved and cultivated. In the summer of 1880, he
moved to Morgantown and purchased the hardware business of James S. Comer,
which he has since managed successfully and satisfactorily. He carries a
varied stock of about $3,500, which is increasing. October 17, 1876, he
married Miss Mary E. Bass, and to them have been born two children--Arthur
D. and Ivey M. Mr. Montgomery is a Liberal in politics, an upright and
watchful merchant, and a generally esteemed citizen.
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