Tipton-Montgomery-Clinton County IN Archives Biographies.....Montgomery, Isaac H. 1828 - 
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Author: Charles Blanchard, Editor (1883)

   CAPT. ISAAC H. MONTGOMERY was born in Crawfordsville, Montgomery Co., Ind.,
on the 5th of February, 1828; his parents, Archibald and Cynthia Montgomery,
formerly lived in Jefferson and Scott Counties, Ind., but at an early day moved
to Montgomery County. After living in Crawfordsville and vicinity several years,
they moved into Clinton County, where they lived on a farm a few miles south of
Frankfort until the year 1841, when they again removed to what was then known as
the Indian Reserve, settling near the present site of the village of Normanda,
in this (Tipton) county. At this time, the Captain was only thirteen years of
age, subject to all the hardships incident to a frontier life. Being compelled
to labor incessantly, and being deprived of all the advantages of our present
splendid system of schools, it might be presumed that his early education was
neglected, but not so; he made good use of every opportunity to enrich his mind
and store up valuable information, until he acquired a good education; for a
number of years he taught school, and was considered one of the best teachers in
the county. In July, 1862, he recruited a company for the Seventy-fifth
Regiment, was elected Captain, and went into the field with the regiment; he
continued in command of the company, at his post on all occasions, on every
march, in every battle or skirmish in which the regiment was engaged until after
the battle of Missionary Ridge, on the 25th day of November, 1863, in which
engagement he was injured in the spine by a fall, received while climbing said
ridge during the engagement. This injury was of such a nature that he was
totally unfitted for marching or fatigue duty, but he continued with his company
until May, 1864, when he was discharged for disability. He then returned home,
and in the following September he was appointed Deputy Provost Marshal for
Tipton County, which position he filled until the close of the war, discharging
the onerous duties of that office with much credit to himself. It is a fact
worthy of remark, that, while he was an active and efficient officer, living up
closely to the code, he was highly honored, respected and esteemed by his
subordinates, not one of them having an occasion to cherish any ill-feeling
toward him. At the close of the rebellion, 1865, he went into the mercantile
business in Tipton, and here, as on the farm and field of battle, he was
successful. The Captain has been twice married, his first marriage occurring in
1848, to Miss Elizabeth J. Evans, a native of Owen County, Ind., and who died in
1866, leaving to his care a family of five children, viz.: W. B. (now in
Kansas), Dora, Belle, Andrew D. (also in Kansas), and Lizzie; his second
marriage occurred in 1866, to Mrs. Sarah J. Evans, widow of M. P. Evans. By this
marriage they have one son, Isaac Marion, living, and one daughter deceased,
Dell B., who died May 8, 1883. Besides the distinguished part played by him in
the late war, the Captain has filled various civil offices, namely: Trustee of
Jefferson Township ten terms; also the office of Justice of the Peace, which he
resigned to enter the war. Both he and his wife are members of the Presbyterian
Church.

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COUNTIES OF HOWARD AND TIPTON, INDIANA.

HISTORICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL.
ILLUSTRATED.

CHARLES BLANCHARD. EDITOR.
CHICAGO: F. A. BATTEY & CO.
1883.


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