BIO:  MONTGOMERY, George B., M.D., s/o John R. & Kate (Brownlee) Montgomery

Submitted by:  phill@redrock.net   (Phyllis Hill)

MONTGOMERY   BROWNLEE   WHITMAN

History of Pike & Dubois Counties, Indiana; Chicago
Goodspeed Bros. & Co., Publishers, 1885
Dubois County, Patoka Twp, page 638

GEORGE B. MONTGOMERY, M.D., of Huntingburgh, Ind., was born August 12, 1827.
He is one of ten children born to John R. and Kate (Brownlee) Montgomery,
and is the only living representative of his people.  His parents were 
natives of Kentucky, and the father came to Indiana when about ten years old,
and located with his parents in Gibson County, where he spent the remainder
of his life.  He held the office of recorder of that county for twenty-seven
years, and was well and favorably known.  Our subject's grandfather was also
quite a noted personage.  He was a soldier in the war of 1812, being in the
battle of Tippecanoe, and was associate judge of the probate court a number
of years.  Was a member of the State Legislature from Gibson County, serving
a number of terms in that capacity.  The immediate subject of our sketch
received a fair education in the public schools, and at the age of seventeen
began the study of medicine under Drs. Graff and Lewis, and also under Dr.
Fullerton, continuing his study two or three years.  He began practicing
medicine in Jefferson County, Ill., continuing one year.  He then came to
Jasper, Ind., and shortly after removed to Winslow, Pike Co., Ind., and made
that his home for over thirty years.  In the meantime he graduated from the
Medical College of Evansville in 1868.  In 1883 he came to Huntingburgh,
where he is at present engaged in the practice of his profession, meeting
with good success wherever he goes.  He was appointed assistant surgeon of 
the Twenty-fourth Indiana Volunteers, and was afterward promoted to surgeon
of the regiment.  January 4, 1851, he married Kate Whitman, a native of 
Warrick County, Ind.  They have three children living; Clarence, Viola and
Helen.  He is a stanch Republican, and has held the office of examining
surgeon for pensions for ten or twelve years, but was removed under Cleve-
land's administration.  He is a member of the I.O.O.F. and the G.A.R.  He is
the last of his generation, having no living relatives.
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