When James W Montgomery was born on 20 September 1877, in Caswell, North Carolina, United States, his father, William Henry Montgomery, was 32 and his mother, Nancy Dodson, was 22. He married Edith A Williamson on 3 April 1901, in Burlington, Alamance, North Carolina, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 3 daughters. He lived in Burlington, Alamance, North Carolina, United States for about 20 years and United States in 1935. He died in 1935, in North Carolina, United States, at the age of 58.
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Garfield was shot twice by Charles J. Guitea at Railroad Station in Washington, D.C. on July 2, 1881. After eleven weeks of intensive and other care Garfield died in Elberon, New Jersey, the second of four presidents to be assassinated, following Abraham Lincoln.
A federal law prohibiting all immigration of Chinese laborers. The Act was the first law to prevent all members of a national group from immigrating to the United States.
A landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court upholding the constitutionality of racial segregation laws for public facilities if the segregated facilities were equal in quality. It's widely regarded as one of the worst decisions in U.S. Supreme Court history.
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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