Kings County Biographies


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MONTGOMERY, ELBERT R.
 
     It was in Blount county, Tenn., that Elbert R. Montgomery was born, October 
10, 1869. He was educated in the public and high schools, and early began 
working with his father, being so employed until he reached the age of 
twenty-one years. He then took up farming and stock-raising, which has commanded 
his attention to the present time. 
 
     In 1892 Mr. Montgomery moved from his old home in Tennessee to Texas, where 
he bought land and farmed until in 1894, when he came to California. Settling in 
Fresno county, he engaged in ranching there, remaining four years. In 1897 he 
removed to Kings county and settled at his present location hear Hanford, where 
with his brother John he rented six hundred and forty acres of land for three 
years, at which time they purchased it.  Later they sold a quarter section of 
this tract and divided the remainder. At the present time Mr. Montgomery owns 
two hundred and fifteen acres, which he devotes very successfully to 
stock-raising. His ranch is one of the best of its class in its vicinity and he 
gives attention to fine stock, which he handles with a success born of long 
experience and with an intimate knowledge of breeding conditions and of the 
market. 
 
     Fraternally Mr. Montgomery affiliates with the Woodmen of the World and 
with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, to the various interests of which he 
is helpfully devoted, and as a citizen he has shown himself to be possessed of a 
public spirit equal to any reasonable demand on behalf of the community. He 
married Laura E. Barnett, December 3, 1905. She was born in Kings county, June 
25, 1880, a daughter of Z. T. Barnett of Hanford. They have one child, Elbert 
Montgomery, who was born October 13, 1906. 
 
SOURCE:  History of Tulare and Kings Counties, California with Biographical 
Sketches - Los Angeles, Calif., Historic Record Company, 1913
Pp 518
Transcribed by: Craig A Hahn