Biography of 	Montgomery, Albert Orleans Parish, Louisiana
Submitted by 	Mike Miller December 1997

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      Albert Montgomery is a live stock commission merchant with his
office at the stockyards, New Orleans, La.  He is also a cattle feeder,
operating both at New Orleans, La., and Meridian, Miss., where he owns
large and well-equipped plants.  He also has a cattle ranch in Fort Bend
county, Tex., and in connection with Mr. J. M. Frost, of Houston, Tex.,
is perhaps the only breeder in this country of zebu or sacred cattle and
at the head of his herd has two pure-bred bulls imported at large cost
from Calcutta, India.  These cattle have a large hump on their shoulders
which by a strange provision of nature adapts them to warm climates.
They have a wonderful digestive organ and thrive on the coarsest grasses
where the pampered Durham or Hereford would die or degenerate into
scrubs.  Mr. Montgomery is an enthusiast on these cattle, owing to their
wonderful adaptability to the South, where the highly bred domestic beef
breeds have all proven a failure.
 
 From Biographical and Historical Memoires of Louisiana, volume 2, p.
263. 
Submitted by Mike Miller