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Surnames: Montgomery, Duffy, Clark, Clarke, Maloney, McKay, Sexton, Packard,
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This book has no cover, and no index, and no author. I bought it on Ebay; it just has the
insides, but it is full of Indiana biographies. I am not researching this family, just
thought I would share. I do not know anymore about these families or these surnames. NOTE:
I don‘t know if there is any additional mention of this family in the book, it has no
index.
Typed by Lora Radiches: 3-24-2005
Surnames in this biography are: Montgomery, Duffy, Clark, Clarke, Maloney, McKay, Sexton,
Packard,
WALTER SCOTT MONTGOMERY. Among the old and honored journalists of Indiana few are held in
higher esteem or confidence or have established a better record than Walter Scott
Montgomery, owner and editor of the New Albany Tribune, an enterprising and thriving
newspaper of Floyd County. His career has been a long, honorable and useful one, during
which he has done much to contribute to the growth and welfare of his community, both
personally and through the columns of his newspaper. Mr. Montgomery was born at Kent,
Jefferson County, Indiana, November 1, 1858, and is a son of William H. and Melissa
(Duffy) Montgomery. His paternal grandfather, David A. Montgomery, came with his parents
and their family from Pennsylvania, becoming the first of that name to settle in the
Hoosier State, where David A. Montgomery took up land and became one of the substantial
and enterprising men of his state, being engaged in agricultural pursuits for many years.
He married Elizabeth Clark, a desce!
ndant of the Clarks, Bonds and Valentines, all well-known families of the Old Dominion
State. She was a graduate of Noblesville (Indiana) High School. William H. Montgomery was
born on his father's farm in Indiana, and received a rural school education. Early in
life he developed a mechanical turn of mind and left the home place to embark in the
manufacture of agricultural implements and tools at Kent, a business which he followed
until reaching the age of thirty-five years, when he disposed of his factory and became a
general merchant. He was thus engaged until reaching his seventy-ninth year, when he
traded his business for three farms, and from, that time forward to the end of his life
was engaged in managing the operations thereon. Mr. Montgomery was one of the constructive
and able citizens of his day and community and served in the capacity of postmaster of
Kent for a period of more than forty years. The early education of Walter Scott
Montgomery was acquired in the!
public schools, following which he entered Hanover (Indiana) College,
where he completed a full course. Graduating in the spring of 1880, with the degree of
Bachelor of Arts, in 1883 he received the degree of Master of Arts. He at once assumed the
vocation of educator, which he followed as an instructor at the Noblesville High School
for two years. He then began the study of law in the office of Kane & Davis, of
Noblesville, and was admitted to the bar in 1882, after which he practiced that profession
for a period of three years at Noblesville. In 1885 Mr. Montgomery entered the newspaper
business, buying a half interest in the Noblesville Ledger. After one year there he began
the publication of the Central Christian paper, but in 1888 sold out and went to
Greenfield, where he bought the Greenfield Republican, and was editor and owner thereof
for twenty-four years. Disposing of his interests, he entered the insurance business for
two years, as Oklahoma and Oregon state representative for several of the old-line
companies. However, he could no!
t withstand the call of newspaper life, and his next connection found him as owner of the
Shelbyville (Kentucky) Republican, of which he was editor for three years. Eventually he
located at New Albany, Indiana, where he purchased the Tribune, with which he has been
actively identified until the present. Mr. Montgomery married Miss Mary Clarke, and to
this union there have been born four children: James E., who after attending Butler
College, Indiana, graduated from Le-land Stanford University, as a member of the class of
1908, now president of the Bank of Southwestern Oregon, at Marshfield, Oregon, married
Miss Marie Maloney, a graduate of Iowa University, and has two children, Mary June and
Nancy Ann; Mary, a graduate of Butler College, married Robert J. McKay, an executive of
the International Nickel Company, and has two children, Robert James and Daniel Clarke;
Ruth, a graduate of Butler College, who married Horatio C. Sexton, a graduate of the
Massachusetts Institute o!
f Technology and of the United States Naval Academy at Annapolis, and
new a lieutenant in the construction department of the United States Navy, and has three
children, Horatio C., Jr., John Montgomery and Mary Susan; and Miss Martha, a graduate of
Butler College, Leland Stanford University and the University of California, and now an
educator at Taft, California.
During the World war Mr. Montgomery turned over the columns of his paper for all war
drives and was one of the most active
men in the city in supporting movements for the accumulation of funds. He is a member of
Jefferson Lodge, A. F. and A. M., of New Albany, the Inland Daily Press Association and
for forty-one years of the Indiana Republican Editorial Association. He is a stanch and
unwavering Republican, and while residing at Greenfield served in the capacity of
postmaster for five years.
The New Albany Tribune was founded in April, 1888, by Gen. Jasper Packard, a native of
Indiana, as a four-page daily and weekly. It is still conducted as a weekly and daily, but
runs from six to sixteen pages, and has a circulation of 4,500, fifty-five people being on
its editorial and mechanical staff. The plant is fully equipped with motor-driven
machinery of the most modern kind, there being 11,000 square feet of floor space.
James E. Montgomery, son of Walter S. Montgomery, was a reporter for the Indianapolis
Star, while attending Butler College, and a cub reporter on the San Francisco Chronicle.
He attended the Officers Training School at the Presidio, San Francisco, during the World
war, and was assigned to the construction department of the lumber industry as executive
officer, with the rank of captain, and acted in that capacity until 1920, when he engaged
in financial affairs.