Edwin Montgomery Explained

Edwin Montgomery
State:Wisconsin
State Assembly:Wisconsin
District:Waushara County
Term Start:January 2, 1871
Term End:January 1, 1872
Predecessor:Theophilus F. Metcalf
Successor:Hobart Sterling Sacket
State Senate1:Wisconsin
District1:23rd
Term Start1:January 7, 1861
Term End1:January 5, 1863
Predecessor1:Enias D. Masters
Successor1:Joseph Dorr Clapp
State House2:Iowa
District2:32nd
Term Start2:December 6, 1852
Term End2:December 3, 1854
Alongside2:John Garber
Predecessor2:District established
Successor2:Stephen Prentice Yeomans
Birth Date:27 May 1817
Birth Place:Harpersfield Township, Ashtabula County, Ohio, U.S.
Restingplace:Hancock Cemetery,
Children:Arthur, Cora, Nellie

Edwin Montgomery (May 27, 1817March 30, 1881) was an American farmer, Republican politician, and pioneer of Wisconsin and Iowa. He was a member of the Wisconsin Senate, representing Jefferson County in the 1861 and 1862 legislative sessions. Earlier, he served two years in the Iowa House of Representatives, representing Iowa's 32nd House of Representatives district, and later in life served one term in the Wisconsin State Assembly, representing Waushara County.

Biography

Edwin Montgomery was born in May 1817 in Harpersfield Township, Ashtabula County, Ohio. He received a common school education and came to Wisconsin in 1848, settling originally in the town of Farmington, Jefferson County, Wisconsin.[1] He moved to Fayette County, Iowa, in 1851 and served two years in the Iowa House of Representatives as a Whig from District 32.[2]

He returned to Wisconsin in 1855, returning to Farmington, Jefferson County. In Farmington, he was elected to the Wisconsin Senate in 1860, running on the Republican Party ticket. He did not face an opponent in the general election.[3] He represented the 23rd Senate district, which then comprised most of Jefferson County, in the 1861 and 1862 legislative sessions.[4]

In the spring of 1865, he moved to the village of Hancock, in Waushara County, Wisconsin, where he operated a hotel known as Hancock House. Later he moved to a nearby farm. In 1870, he was the Republican nominee for Wisconsin State Assembly in the Waushara County district, and defeated the Republican incumbent Theophilus F. Metcalf, who ran on the "people's ticket".[1]

Personal life and family

Edwin Montgomery married Elizabeth Brown of Monroe County, Ohio, on December 22, 1855. They had at least three children.[5]

Electoral history

Wisconsin Assembly (1870)

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Notes and References

  1. The Legislative Manual of the State of Wisconsin . 1871 . State of Wisconsin . Official Directory . 386 .
  2. News: Edwin Montgomery . June 16, 2024 . Iowa General Assembly.
  3. News: The Legislature of 1861 - The Nominees of all Parties . The Daily Milwaukee News . November 4, 1860 . 2 . May 23, 2023 . .
  4. The Blue Book of the State of Wisconsin 1882 . 1882 . State of Wisconsin . Heg . J. E. . Annals of the Legislature . 201, 203 . May 23, 2023 .
  5. Book: History of Northern Wisconsin . 1881 . Western Historical Company . History of Waushara County . 1119 . May 24, 2023 .