Mecosta County MI Archives Biographies.....Montague, Charles H. December 13, 1848 - 
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Author: Chapman Brothers

CHARLES H. MONTAGUE, farmer, sec. 27, Green Tp., was born in Vergennes, Kent 
Co., Mich., Dec. 13, 1848, 

and is a son of James and Laura L. (Hungerford) Montague.  The father was born 
Dec. 12, 1810, in Maine, 

and is a son of William and Anna (Crawford) MOntague, natives of England.  
William Montague removed with 

his family to New York and left them there while he participated in the wae of 
1812.  After its close he 

removed to Canada, where he passed the remainder of his life.  James Montague 
went to Lowell, Kent Co. 

Mich., and improved a farm of 160 acres, which he sold in the spring of 1856 
and came to Mecosta County, 

where he entered 160 acres of land under the Homestead Act, on sec. 27, his 
present estate.  He has at 

various times handled lands to considerable extnet, and has been the 
proprietor of 1,000 acres; is still 

holding 500 acres.  His wife died Dec. 5, 1875.  She was the mother of 11 
children:  William J., Abigail, 

Laura E., Charles H., Mary, Joseph K., Helen M., John T., Samuel H., and 
George W.  Mr. Montague married 

Mrs. Sarah Wheeler for a second wife, and, after her death, was married to 
Mrs. Polly Tanner.

The subject of this sketch was reared on a farm, receiving a fair education, 
and remained under the 

parental roof until he was married to Elizabeth McGill, May 26, 1871.  She was 
born in Canada, March 28, 

1849, and of daughter of Malcolm and Mary E. (Burt) McGill, the former of 
Scotch lineage and the latter a 

native of Canada.  Mr. and Mrs. Montague have four children, viz:  Minnie L., 
born June 17, 1872; Nellie, 

June 2, 1874; James H., Nov. 2, 1876; George H., May 22, 1880.  Mr. Montague 
is a Republican in politics, 

and is the proprietor of 140 acres of land, now his homestead, with 71 acres 
under cultivation.

Additional Comments:
1883 Portrait & Bio Album of Mecosta Co., MI.

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