BIO: Andrew J. MONTGOMERY, Clearfield County, PA
 
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From Twentieth Century History of Clearfield County, Pennsylvania,
and Representative Citizens, by Roland D. Swoope, Jr.,
Chicago: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Company, 1911, pages 970 & 971.
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  ANDREW J. MONTGOMERY, A retired farmer and very highly respected citizen of 
Bell township, Clearfield county, Pa., was born August 25, 1849, in Indiana 
county, Pa., and is a son of Jehu and Nancy (Spencer) Montgomery.
  Jehu Montgomery was born in 1803, in Clarion county, Pa., and died in Indiana 
county when aged sixty-seven years.  His business was farming and he was a 
patriotic and reliable citizen, serving his country all through the Mexican war.  
He married Nancy Spencer, who was born in Indiana county and died there in 1908, 
aged eighty-two years.  She was a daughter of Andrew and Margaret (Pierce) 
Spencer, old Indiana county families.  To Jehu Montgomery and wife the following 
children were born:  Andrew J.; Thomas; Robert A., residing in Nebraska; Jennie, 
wife of R. B. Copp, of Augusta, Me.; Samuel G., residing in Bell township; 
William, living in Indiana county; and Lee, Calvin J., Peter C. and Cynthia E., 
all of whom reside in Indiana county, the last named being the wife of George 
Lambing.
  Andrew J. Montgomery obtained his education in his native county and afterward 
followed the carpenter trade for seven years and then went into the woods and 
was engaged in timber cutting and contracting until 1885, when he became a 
farmer and continued agricultural pursuits until 1903, when he retired.  During 
the Civil war he served as a soldier from April, 1865, until September in the 
same year, being a member of Co. B, 74th Pa. Vol. Inf., his commanding officers 
being Col. Hobart, of Pittsburg, and Captain P. C. Spencer, the latter of whom 
was his uncle.  His regiment was detailed as guards for the Baltimore & Ohio 
Railroad.
  Mr. Montgomery was married to Miss Sarah Jane Neal, who was born in Jefferson 
county, Pa., January 10, 1854, and is a daughter of Thomas and Mary (Graffins) 
Neal, both of whom were born in Eastern Pennsylvania.  Mr. and Mrs. Montgomery 
have had ten children, as follows:  Mary, who married R. S. Miller, of McGee's 
Mills, and they have ten children and two grandchildren.  Myrtle B., who married 
H. M. Bowers, of Boliver, Pa., and they have six children; Nancy E., who is the 
wife of M. P. Dodson, and they have three children; Theresa, who is the wife of 
P. E. Bowers, and they have five children; Irwin, who resides at Fort Woodworth, 
N. Y.; May, who is the wife of W. F. Masters, of Johnstown, Pa.; William G. who 
married Cora Johnston, and they have two children; Thomas N., who married Lod 
Leasur, resides in Indiana county; and Fannie and Pearl, both of whom reside at 
home.  Mr. and Mrs. Montgomery are members of the Methodist Episcopal church.  
In politics he is identified with the Republican party but has never wanted to 
hold office and when his appreciative fellow citizens elected him a justice of 
the peace in Bell township, declined to serve.  He is a member of the fraternal 
order of Knights of the Golden Eagles at McGee's Mills, Clearfield county.