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Below is a family biography included in Biographical and Portrait Cyclopedia of Chautauqua County, New York published by John M. Gresham & Co. in 1891.  These biographies are valuable for genealogy research in discovering missing ancestors or filling in the details of a family tree. Family biographies often include far more information than can be found in a census record or obituary.  Details will vary with each biography but will often include the date and place of birth, parent names including mothers' maiden name, name of wife including maiden name, her parents' names, name of children (including spouses if married), former places of residence, occupation details, military service, church and social organization affiliations, and more.  There are often ancestry details included that cannot be found in any other type of genealogical record.

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HARVEY MONTGOMERY is a descendant of a very old family in Ireland, which has sent several representatives to America, who have become distinguished in military, naval, religious and political fields. He is a son of Ezekiel and Fidelia (Martin) Montgomery, and was born in Hanover, Chautauqua county, New York, October 8, 1843. His father was a native of the eastern part of New York, born in 1800, and came to Chautauqua county, locating in Hanover in 1832.

By trade he was a mill-wright, and for a number of years was engaged in the manufacture of milling and grain-cleaning machinery, in partnership with two of his sons, Henry and Martin, under the firm name of E. Montgomery & Co. They continued in this business until 1866. He died in 1868, aged sixty-eight years. Politically he was a republican. Ezekiel Montgomery married Fidelia Martin, by whom he had eight children. One son, Baldwin, lives in Silver Creek; another, Henry, died in Buffalo, October, 1887; and a third, Martin, in Newark, Ohio. Mrs. Montgomery was a native of eastern New York, born in 1806, and died in the autumn of 1886, aged eighty years. She was a member of the Presbyterian church.

Harvey Montgomery was brought up in Silver Creek, this county, and received a common school education. After leaving school he learned the machinist’s trade, which he followed for the last thirty years. In March, 1886, he engaged as foreman in the establishment, where he still holds that position, and is considered an expert, skillful and reliable workman with excellent executive ability. He is a member of the fire department, and also of Silver Creek Council, Royal Arcanum, No. 139.

Harvey Montgomery was married November, 1871, to Helen Horton, a daughter of Albert Horton of Silver Creek.

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This family biography is one of 658 biographies included in Biographical and Portrait Cyclopedia of Chautauqua County, New York published in 1891. 

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