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Charlotteville, where he was a special grad- uate in 1875. He was tutor in Latin at Colum- bian university, 1875-79 ; adjunct professor of Latin, 1879-82 ; professor of Latin, 1883-97 ; took the graduate degree of Ph. D. in 1888 : was prin- cipal of the preparatory school, 1884-97, and dean of the university, 1895-97. He was married, Nov. 3, 1881, to May, daughter of Judge Joseph Christian, at one time president of the supreme court of Virginia. He was appointed president of Furman university. South Carolina, in 1897. The honorary degree of A.M. was conferred on him in 1879 by the Columbian university, and that of LL.D. by Richmond college, Va., in 1895. He is the author of : Letters of Cicero (1889) and Utters of Pliny (1891).

MONTAQUEt Robert Latane« jurist, was born at Ellaslee, Middlesex county, Va., May 23, 1819 ; son of Lewis Brooke and Catlierine Street (Jesse) Montague ; grandson of Lewis and Catherine (Brooke) Montague, and of John and Elizabetli (Street) Jesse, and a descendant of Peter Mon- tague, who came from Boveney, Parish of Burn- ham, Buckinghamshire, England, to America in 1621, and when he reached his majority in 1624 engaged in planting, first at James City and sub sequently in Upper Norfolk county, Va. Robert was educated at Fleetwood academy. King and Queen county ; studied law under Judge Lomax at Fredericksburg, Va., and was graduated LL. B. at the College of William and Mary in 1842, pur- suing a post-graduate course at that institution in 1842. He settled in practice in Middlesex county, and stumped the state for Polk and Dallas in the presidential campaign of 1844. He was a representative in the state legislature, 1850- 52 ; a Democratic presidential elector in 1853 and 1857, and was a commonwealth attorney of Mid- dlesex county for several years. He was elected lieutenant-governor of Virginia on the ticket with Gov. John Letcher in 1860 ; was president of the Virginia secession convention in 1861 ; a member of the executive council to organize the Virginia troops for service in the Confederate army and to appoint officers, and was a repre- sentative in the Confederate congress, 1863-65. He represented Middlesex county in the house of delegates in 1873 ; and was judge of the eighth judicial district of Virginia, 1875-80. He was moderator of the General Baptist association of Virginia for several years. He was married, Dec. 14, 1852, to Cordelia Gay, daughter of Joseph C. Eubank of Essex county, Va. He died in Mid- dlesex county, Va., March 2, 1880.

MONTAGUE, William Lewis, educator, was born in Belchertown, Mass., April 6, 1831 ; son of Ephraimand Laura (Sabin) Montague ; grandson of Jedediah and Dorcas (Grover) Montague, and of Thomas Sabin, and a descendant of Richard

and Abigail (Downing) Montague. Richard Mon- tague was a native of Boveney, parish of Burn- ham. Buckinghamshire, England, and a brother of Peter, who settled in Virginia in 1621. Richard came to Wells, JIaine, about 1640, re- moved to Boston, in 1646, to Wethersfield, Conn., in 1651, and to Hadley, Mass, in 1659. William L. Mon- tague graduated at Amherst, A.B., 1855, A.M., 1858; taught Latin and Greek in Williston seminary, 1855-57 ; tutored in Latin and mathemat- ics at Amherst, 1857- 58, and was an in- structor in Latin and *^ /? /y French there, 1858- J^ A Jbo>J!^.,<^. 62. He was mar- "

ried, Aug. 19, 1858, to Rebecca Waterman, daugh- ter of Capt. Henry Pope of Halifax, Mass. He was licensed to preach, Feb. 14, 1860, and subse- quently supplied various Congregational churches. He was assistant professor of Latin language and literature and instructor in French at Amherst, 1862-64, professor of French, 1864-68, professor of the French, Italian and Spanish languages, 1868- 91; professor of Italian, 1891-95 ; librarian, 1864-78 ; registrar, 1860-80, and director of the Amherst summer school of languages, 1884-96. He spent the years 1865-66 and 1871-72 in study and travel in Europe, and engaged in literary work in Paris, 1896-1900. After his return to Amherst in 1900 he engaged in compiling and editing the second volume of the Alumni Record, in private teaching and in lecturing on Dante and the Divine Comedy. He was made a member of the Society de Linguistique de Paris, the American Philolog- ical association and the Modern Language As- sociation of America, and received the degree Ph.D. from Illinois Wesleyan university in 1893. He edited Tlxe Quarter Centennial Record of the Class of '55, Amherst College (1880) ; Biographical Record of the Alumni and Non-Oraduate Mem- bers of Amherst College 18S1-9G (2 vols., 1883 and 1901); Modern Italian Readings (1893); and i>< Fille de Roland, par Henri de Bornier, with in- troduction and notes, ( 1895) ; and is the author of : Comparative Grammar of the Spanish Lan- guage (1873); Manual of Italian Oramniar (ISli) ; Introduction to Italian Literature (1875 ; 2d ed., 1879); and Oenealogy of the Montague lamily with George W. Montague (1885).

MONTGOMERY, Alexander Brooks, represen- tative, was born in Hardin county, Ky., Dec. 11, 1837 ; son of William Withers and Catharine Ann