Los Angeles-Tuolumne County CA Archives Biographies.....Montgomery, A. M. 1871 - 
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Author: Luther A. Ingersoll (1908)

    A. M. MONTGOMERY, leading dry goods merchant of this city, is a native of
California, and was born at Jamestown, Toulumne County, April 4th, 1870. His
father is a California pioneer of the early sixties, and a sketch of his life
appears on another page of this book.

    Mr. Montgomery was but six years of age when the family removed to Santa
Monica from the central part of the state. Santa Monica was then but a hamlet of
two years' existence, composed of a few hundred courageous and hopeful people
and the youthful life of our subject may be said to have started with the
material growth of the new city. He attended the first schools opened in the
town, passed through the grades as they were established, and graduated at the
High School, after which he managed the business of the old North Beach Bath
House, later known as the Arcadia Bath House. He held the position for two
years. He then took a position as accountant and salesman for H. A. Winslow,
grocers, of Santa Monica, and was with the concern about five years. In 1896 he
opened a Men's Furnishing Goods Store with F. B. McComas as partner, under the
firm name of Montgomery & McComas. In 1899, Mr. Montgomery purchased his
partner's interest and eoon thereafter bought the dry goods and furnishing goods
stock of N. A. Roth, and opened for business in a modest store at No. 223 Third
Street, where he remained until December 1st, 1905, when he removed to his
present location in the Bundy Block, Nos. 1408-1410 North Third Street.
Montgomery's is the most extensive dry goods emporium in Los Angeles County
outside of the City of Los Angeles. It has a frontage on Third Street of fifty
feet, and a lateral depth of one hundred feet. Its interior equipment is in all
respects modern and complete, including a cash and package carrying system. The
sales rooms are airy and light and the entire establishment is admirably
arranged for the handling of their extensive business.

    In 1903, Mr. Montgomery opened a store at Pier Avenue, Ocean Park, of the
same size, carrying the same line of goods, which in size and arrangement is now
a duplicate of his splendid Santa Monica house.

    Mr. Montgomery was married January 10th, 1898, to Mrs. Isabella Mallory, and
they have one son, Albert Irving, born March 11th, 1902. The family home is one
of the many attractive residences of the city, No. 827 Second Street.

    Mr. Montgomery is a member of the Santa Monica lodge of Elks, Foresters of
America, Native Sons of the Golden West and Santa Monica Board of Trade.


Additional Comments:
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Ingersoll's century history, Santa Monica Bay cities: prefaced with a brief
history of the state of California, a condensed history of Los Angeles County,
1542 to 1908: supplemented with an encyclopedia of local biography and
embellished with views of historic landmarks and portraits of representative
people.

Los Angeles: Luther A. Ingersoll (1908)


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