Joseph Hamilton Montgomery

born 1842

BiographyThe Montgomery Family was an early Pittsburgh family who came to the region during the first half of the 19th century. Alexander Montgomery (1799-1864), arrived in Pittsburgh in 1834 and established a carpentry/cabinet-making shop. Montgomery married Sarah Jane Hamilton and had six children: Nancy (1835-), Mary (1840-), John Alexander (1843-), Joseph Hamilton (1842-), and Jennie.

Joseph Hamilton Montgomery enlisted in the Civil War along with his brother Alexander in May of 1862. Joseph served with Company H of the 123rd Regiment of the Pennsylvania Volunteers and later re-enlisted with Company F of the 193rd Regiment, the same company as Edwin Dawson. After the war, Joseph became a Presbyterian minister and in 1869, married Edwin Dawson's sister, Caroline Dawson. They resided at the "old Dawson home" located on Westminster Place in Shadyside.

In 1879, Caroline gave birth to the couple's only child, Annie Montgomery. Annie Montgomery attended Pittsburgh High School and graduated from Pennsylvania College for Women (Chatham College), Pittsburgh, in 1900. She married John Mason Young, and they had one daughter, Rosalie Young Persons.