"HISTORY OF OWEN COUNTY 1884"
CHARLES BLANCHARD, EDITOR.  CHICAGO:  F. A. BATTEY & CO. PUBLISHERS.  1884.
F. A. BATTEY.  F. W. TEPPLE

MONTGOMERY TOWNSHIP IN OWEN CO., IN.
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WILLIAM R. MONTGOMERY, one of the pioneer farmers of this township was 
born in Fleming County, Kentucky, June 4, 1815 and is the second of
four children born to John and Polly (Donovan) Montgomery, natives
respectively of Virginia and Mason County, Kentucky. He was educated
at the subscription schools of his neighborhood until 1827, when he 
came to this township with his parents from Bourbon County, Kentucky.
The township was then little more than a wilderness, but is now covered
with beautiful pastures and cultivated field and to this family, as 
much as any other, can this great change be accredited. Mr. Montgomery
now owns 440 acres in a good state of cultivation, improved with 
residence, barns, outbuildings, fences and an orchard and stocked with
horses, cattle, hogs and sheep, together with every variety of farming
implements. At the age of sixteen, he began an apprenticeship at 
blacksmithing at Spencer; served four years and then returned to the 
farm.
January 31, 1839 he married Nancy Ann Devore, a native of Owen county,
and daughter of Henry and Anna (Barnes) Devore of Kentucky. There were 
four children born to this union, now living--Mary J, Louella, Anna B
and Elizabeth. Mr Montgomery is in rugged health, though past sixty
eight years of age, and both he and his wife are members of the 
Methodist Episcopal Church.

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