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Biographical History of Cherokee County, Iowa
W. S. Dunbar & Co., Chigago - 1889

[page 473]

    JOHN C. MONTAGNE was born in the State of Texas, eight miles from
    the city of Houston, November 14, 1847.  He is the son of JOHN F.
    and MARGARETTA (GERLES) MONTAGNE, who removed to the State of New
    York when JOHN C. was a child five years of age.  After a short time
    they returned to Oldenburg, Germany, from which place they originally
    came.  There our subject passed his youth until his seventeenth year.
    There were eight children in the family: Two died in Texas, and the
    mother and two children died in Germany.  The father and three remain-
    ing children returned to America in 1864, and settled in Lyons, Clin-
    ton County, where the father died the following year.  JOHN C. was
    trained in the duties of that most independent avocation, farming,
    and in the spring of 1872 he came to Cherokee County and purchased
    160 acres of land in Tilden Township, which civilization had not
    disturbed; there he began cultivating the soil and making improve-
    ments, and he has probably done as much as any other man in the
    township toward the advancement of the county's interests.  He
    has added to his first purchase of land until he now holds a deed
    to 480 acres, all of which is under cultivation.  He has erected
    a fine dwelling and numerous farm buildings; he has planted a grove
    of five acres, and altogether has one of the most desirable farms
    in the county.  He has acquired all his possessions through his
    own efforts, excepting a small legacy bequeathed him by his father,
    and is  thoroughly a self-made man.  Mr. MONTAGNE affiliates with
    no political parties, preferring to cast his vote for the men best
    suited in his opinion to fill the requirements of the office.  His
    neighbors have shown their confidence in him by calling him to fill
    the office of trustee, road supervisor and school director, in which
    he has given entire satisfaction.   Mr. MONTAGNE was united in mar-
    riage January 30, 1873, to Miss MARGARETTA BIERMAN, a daughter of
    FRANCIS and ELIZABETH (PLÖGER) BIERMAN.  She was born in Quincy,
    Illinois, in January, 1853.  Mr. MONTAGNE is a member of the Luth-
    eran Church, and his wife belongs to the Roman Catholic Church.

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