Los Angeles County CA Archives Biographies.....Montgomery, Ernest Alexander 
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Author: Robert J. Burdette (1910)

ERNEST ALEXANDER MONTGOMERY, LOS ANGELES
Born Toronto, Can., Nov. 24, 1863, son of Alexander and Jane (Chapman)
Montgomery. Great grand-uncle, General Richard Montgomery, was hero of Quebec.
Educated public schools London, Can., and Stuart, Ia., spending boyhood on
ranch. From 1884 to 1901 mining in Idaho and Washington; latter year went to Nye
Co., Nev., where, in Montgomery district, developed valuable properties (Johnnie
Mine, etc.); operated "World Beater" and "O. B. Joyful" mines, Inyo Co., Cal.;
1903 identified with Los Angeles, Daggett & Tonopah Ry. Co.; helped organize
Goldfield district; 1904 located famuos Shoshone mine; bought Skidoo mine (1905)
upon which spent $500,000. Pres. Skidoo Mines Co.; dir. Montgomery-Shoshone,
Sapphire Oil Co. and First National Bank, Tonopah. Mem. Jonathan, Sierra Madre
and other clubs; Thirty-second degree Mason; Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce,
Commerce of Mines, Merchants & Manufacturers' Assn. Came to California 1891.



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THE LEWIS PUBLISHING COMPANY
CHICAGO          LOS ANGELES          NEW YORK
1910


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