Lacrosse-Walworth County WI Archives Biographies.....Montague, G. R. December 1830 - 
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G. R. MONTAGUE was born in Granby, Mass., in December, 1830; he came to La 
Crosse in the spring of 1854, coming by team from Walworth Co., Wis., via 
Galena, Ill. The party were eight days on the way, waiting two days at Galena 
for a steamer. The cholera was then raging, and four deaths occurred in that 
brief interval at the United States Hotel, at which they were stopping, which 
induced them to continue the journey at once by team; on arriving they put up 
at the Franklin, a house then kept by B. S. Rippy, on the site of the Montague 
Block, on Main street, and probably the chief boarding-house in the city; it 
still does duty as a tenement house, on the corner of Second and Cass streets. 
Mr. M. remained but a short time, when he returned to Walworth Co. on foot, 
with a friend from Racine, making forty miles the first day; after a stay of a 
year, he went back to Massachusetts on a visit, passing the summer and winter, 
returning to La Crosse in the spring of 1856; during that season he was 
employed surveying, as deputy under T. M. Horton, the County Surveyor; like 
many another deputy, he bore the chief burden of the work, laying out roads in 
Barre, Hamilton and Bangor, among them being the main traveled road from La 
Crosse to Sparta, which was laid out from Hamilton through Bangor to the line 
of Monroe Co.; during that winter and the next summer he taught school; he 
next became engaged in insurance and real estate business, which he disposed 
of to Martindale & Oatman, in 1869, when his whole attention was required in 
the marble business. He was one of the original incorporators of the La Crosse 
National Bank, and is one of its largest stockholders; he has been a member of 
its board of directors from the first year and its Vice President from the 
second year. He was married, October, 1859, to Miss Jennie Warner, at 
Williamsburg, Mass., and has two children.

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From History of La Crosse County, Wisconsin, 1881, p. 778.

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