When James E. Montgomery was born on 6 March 1842, in Posey, Indiana, United States, his father, William Montgomery, was 46 and his mother, Elizabeth Jones, was 41. He married Susan Lourena Holland on 5 November 1865, in Jasper, Iowa, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 5 daughters. He lived in Pilger Election Precinct, Stanton, Nebraska, United States in 1900 and Pilger, Stanton, Nebraska, United States in 1910. He registered for military service in 1861. He died on 8 June 1924, in Linn Township, Marshall, Iowa, United States, at the age of 82, and was buried in Pilger Cemetery, Pilger, Stanton, Nebraska, United States.
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U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
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Abraham Lincoln is assassinated by John Wilkes Booth.
English, Scottish, and northern Irish (of Norman origin): habitational name from Sainte-Foy-de-Montgomery and Saint-Germain-de-Montgomery (Calvados). In Ireland this surname was present in the medieval period, died out, and was then reintroduced from Scotland in the 17th century. It has been Gaelicized in Ireland as Mac Iomaire and in Scotland as Mac Gumaraid.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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