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

[page 547-548]

    JOSEPH MONTGOMERY - America is indebted to the beautiful Emerald
    Isle for many of her best citizens, among them our worthy subject,
    Joseph Montgomery, who was born in the County of Antrim, and is
    the son of HENRY and ELIZA JANE (MOLYNEUX) MONTGOMERY, natives of
    Scotland.  Joseph was reared to the occupation of a farmer, and
    received his education in the common schools of his native land.
    At the age of twenty-one years he emigrated to America, desirous
    of making a home for himself in the Western country.  After land-
    ing he came to Iowa and settled in Butler County, where he resided
    until 1868, when he came to Cherokee County and bought eighty acres
    of wild land in Cedar Township.  In 1877 he traded with JAMES HEN-
    DERSON for his present farm, upon which he has made many excellent
    improvements.  He has erected a two-story house of a late, conven-
    ient style, and has beautified his place further by planting two
    acres of grove.  He also has a good barn, sheds and cribs, and all
    the accommodations for raising and caring for live-stock. That
    prosperity has attended the steps of our subject can not be doubted.
    Mr. MONTGOMERY was united in marriage March 26, 1873, to Miss JENNIE
    MATTHEW, a native of Scotland and a daughter of PETER MATTHEW, Esq.
    an early settler of Cedar Township.  Seven children have been born
    of this union: WILLIAM GEORGE, FRANCIS, CHRISTINA and EUGENIA, twins,
    EDNA JOSEPHINE, JAMES HENRY, and PETER, who died at the age of two
    years.  The parents are consistent members of the Presbyterian
    Church.  Mr. MONTGOMERY supports the issues of the Republican
    party.  He is a man of fine physique, in the prime of life, of a
    genial disposition, and has won a host of friends, of whose con-
    fidence and respect he is in every way worthy.

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