Montgomery
Montgomery names 4 different subjects across the 6 encyclopedias on this shelf. Each is set out below.
Montgomery a city, county-seat Montgomery of co.
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
a city, county-seat Montgomery of co., and capital of the State of Alabama; on the Alabama river, and on the Louisville and Nashville, the Western of Alabama, the Plant System, the Central of Georgia, the Mobile and Ohio and the Seaboard Air Line railroads; 95 miles S. E. of Birmingham. Here are the United States Government Building, Masonic Temple, city infirmary, an orphanage, large cotton storage warehouses, electric lights, electric street railways, National banks, and several daily and weekly newspapers. It has manufactories of ice, fertilizers, candy, wagons, crackers, paper boxes, etc.; large intercarriages, cigars, vinegar, soap, ests in cotton oil machinery, marble, etc.; and an assessed property valuation of nearly $30,000,000. The opening of the Panama Canal gave a great impetus to the commercial interests of Montgomery, and it is now one of the most important industrial cities of the South. Montgomery was founded in 1817, and named in honor of General Montgomery, who was It received its charter in 1837, and was killed in the action at Quebec. made the State capital in 1847. It was also the capital of the Confederate States in 1861-1862. Pop. (1910) 38,136; (1920) 43,464.
Montgomery JOHN KNOX, clergyman
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
JOHN KNOX, clergyman; born at Belfast, Tenn., in 1861, attended Enfield College, Ill., and Indiana State University, graduating from the latter in 1884, and from Xenia Theological Seminary , O., with the degree of B. D. in 1887. In the same year he was ordained and became pastor, first at Harshaville, O., then in turn at Sparta, Ill., Cincinnati, O., Chicago, and Charlotte, N. C. Has been president of Muskingum College since June, 1904. In 1900 he was Prohibitionist candidate for secretary of state of Ohio, and from 1914 has been president of the Ohio Anti- Saloon League. Has been editor of religious papers in Pittsburgh and Philadelphia. Was preacher camps under National War Work Council. in army
Montgomery RICHARD, an American military officer
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
RICHARD, an American military officer; born in Swords, Ireland, Dec. 2. 1736. He entered the army of Great Britain and was with Wolfe at the taking of Quebec in 1759. On his return to England he resigned his commission and emigrated to America. When the Revolutionary War began he was given command of the northern Continental forces. He reduced Fort Cherokee, took Montreal and fell Dec. 31, 1775, in attack on Quebec. A monument was erected to his memory in front of St. Paul's Church, New York City.
Montgomery the name of a noble family
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
the name of a noble family, sprung from ROGER DE MONTGO-
What Has Changed in the Last Century
Collier's in 1921 described Montgomery as a booming cotton-and-wagon town of 43,464, proud chiefly of having been "the capital of the Confederate States in 1861-1862"; the city now holds roughly 200,000 people and is known worldwide for what happened after that account was written. Rosa Parks's arrest in December 1955 launched the bus boycott led by Martin Luther King Jr., then pastor of Dexter Avenue Baptist Church a few blocks from the capitol; the 1961 Freedom Riders were beaten at the city's bus station, and the Selma march ended on the capitol steps in March 1965. Those sites are now museums, joined in 2018 by the Equal Justice Initiative's Legacy Museum and National Memorial for Peace and Justice, which commemorates victims of lynching. The other Montgomerys are much as described: Richard Montgomery still lies beneath his monument at St. Paul's Chapel in New York, and the Anti-Saloon League presidency held by John Knox Montgomery lost its purpose when Prohibition was repealed in 1933.
Written for this edition, 2026.