ELWYN B. ROBINSON DEPARTMENT OF SPECIAL COLLECTIONS
CHESTER FRITZ LIBRARY
UNIVERSITY OF NORTH DAKOTA
GRAND FORKS, NORTH DAKOTA 58202
COLLECTION: OGL #1168
DATES: 1882-1902, 1988
SIZE: .25 linear feet
ACQUISITION: The George Montgomery Papers were deposited in the Orin G. Libby Manuscript Collection by Jane Brooks, Concord, Massachusetts, on August 16, 1988 (Acc.#88-1613).
ACCESS: Open for inspection under the rules and regulations of the Department of Special Collections.
George S. Mongomery was born in Petersburg, Illinois, February 20, 1856, the son of Humphrey W. Montgomery and Emily (Wilson) Montgomery. He attended Miami University at Oxford, Ohio and then entered Illinois College, where he remained two years until graduation. In 1882, his family left Petersburg for the Dakota Territory, settling in modern day Ransom County, North Dakota. Here Mr. Montgomery worked as a school teacher and principal, farmed, and did some banking business.
On January 1, 1887 he married Mary Bishop of Oxford, Ohio, with whom he had five children. Mr. Montgomery was a member of the first legislature of North Dakota and of the first board of railroad commissioners for the state. He was active and successful in fighting the granting of a license by the legislature of North Dakota to the Louisiana Lottery. In 1903, he moved to Edmonton, Alberta, Cananda, where he was interested in extensive ownership of farm lands and coal mining, which occupied him until his retirement in 1927. During his residence in Edmonton, he was American Consular Agent. Mrs. Montgomery died in 1935, just a year before her husband, and both are buried in Long Beach, California, where they went to live at the time of Mr. Montgomery's retirement from business.
The George Montgomery Papers consist of his recollections of his parents, detailed in an article written by him, The Childhood of Parents, as well as recollections of his life. Additional materials include newspaper clippings and photographs of Montgomery and correspondence relating to the donation of the collection.
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