BIO: Peter Brough MONTGOMERY, M.D., Chambersburg, Franklin County, PA

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Medical Men of Franklin County, 1750-1925 by Ambrose Watts Thrush, M.D.;
Chambersburg, Pa.; Medical Society of Franklin County, Page 85-86 
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PETER BROUGH MONTGOMERY, M.D.

1862 – 1910

Dr. Montgomery was born December 29, 1862, in Chambersburg, Pa., the son of Dr. 
John Montgomery.  He was educated in the Chambersburg High School and the 
Chambersburg Academy, and then read medicine with his father in Chambersburg, 
taking his degree M.D. in 1886 from the Bellevue Hospital Medical College, New 
York City.  The same year he began the practice of medicine in Chambersburg in 
partnership with his father, succeeding to the practice when the latter retired.

Dr. Montgomery was a member of the Medical Society, and its President in 1902, 
and for many years a member of the Hospital Staff.  He served one term as 
Coroner of the County, was a member of Borough Council and the unsuccessful 
candidate for State Senator in 1892.  Politically he was a Democrat, by faith a 
Presbyterian and a member of Masonic Fraternity.

He married 1889 Miss Jessie Bonbrake, daughter of Emanuel J. Bonbrake, Esq., of 
Chambersburg, Pa.  His death occurred January 7, 1910, at Buena Vista, Florida, 
where he had gone for a rest in the home of his brother, Dr. James H. 
Montgomery.