Western Pennsylvania Genealogy
Compiled by Douglas H. Lusher


Family Group Record



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Peter Brough Montgomery and Jessie Snively Bonbrake




Husband Peter Brough Montgomery 1

           Born: 29 Dec 1862 1
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         Father: John Montgomery, M.D. (1835-      ) 1 2
         Mother: Catharine Ann Brough (1840-1899) 1 2


       Marriage: 28 Nov 1889 1



Wife Jessie Snively Bonbrake 3

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         Father: Emanuel James Bonbrake (      -      ) 4
         Mother: Eliza Belle Oaks (      -      ) 5




Children
1 M William Erdmann Montgomery 1

           Born: 12 Jul 1892 1
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General Notes: Husband - Peter Brough Montgomery


He was educated at the Chambersburg High School and the Chambersburg Academy. He studied medicine with his father and was graduated M. D. at Bellevue Hospital Medical College, New York, in 1886. He began the practice of his profession at Chambersburg, Pennsylvania. He was elected coroner of Franklin County in 1887, and while coroner was connected with some of the most important murder trials in the history of the county. He was the Democratic candidate for the State Senate in 1892, but was defeated in the landslide of that year. He was twice a member of the Chambersburg town council and declined the nomination for chief burgess in 1900. In 1896 he was appointed for the State Board of Health medical inspector for Franklin County. In 1898 he became a member of the drug firm of Greenawalt & Montgomery, the largest of its kind in the Cumberland Valley. He was a member of the American Medical Association, the Medical Society of Pennsylvania, and the Franklin County Medical Society. He was a member of George Washington Lodge, No. 143, F. & A. M., and a Knight Templar.

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Sources


1 —, Biographical Annals of Franklin County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: The Genealogical Publishing Co., 1905), Pg 496.

2 —, History of Franklin County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Warner, Beers & Co., 1887), Pg 670.

3 —, Biographical Annals of Franklin County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: The Genealogical Publishing Co., 1905), Pg 125, 496.

4 —, Biographical Annals of Franklin County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: The Genealogical Publishing Co., 1905), Pg 123, 220, 497.

5 —, Biographical Annals of Franklin County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: The Genealogical Publishing Co., 1905), Pg 220.


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