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nobles at William's court. He is described as being "a very prudent and moderate man, pious, a great lover of equity, and of discreet and modest persons. His first wife. Mabel, whom he married in 1048, was a member of a turbulent family, and. unlike her husband. manifested hatred toward the religious orders. His second wife "made herself re- markable for her wisdom and piety, and always upheld her husband in loving the monks and defending the helpless."
Roger and his cousin. William Fitzosberne, both encouraged Duke William in his attack upon England and accompanied him in his great expedition. The account of the Battle of Hastings, October 14. 1066. shows how the Duke called upon Roger and William to lead in the charge on the same side, and relates an incident of Roger's boldness and skill. An English knight of noble carriage, wielding a northern hatchet, with a blade a full foot long, supported by his company of one hundred men, by his impetuous charge struck dismay upon the Norman ranks, but Roger de Monegomerie came galloping up with his lance set, and heeding not the long-handled axe which the English- man wielded aloft, struck him down and left him stretched upon the ground. Then he cried out. "Frenchmen, strike! the day is ours!"
In the division of the English territories which William made among his followers. Roger de Montgomerie was munificently rewarded with the Earldom of Chichester and Arundel, and soon afterwards with that of Shrewsbury. In his advanced age he entered into holy orders. was shorn a monk of the Abbey of SS. Peter and Paul, which he founded, and there died July 27. 1094. By his wife Mabel. daughter and heiress of William de Talvas, he had several children. The family espoused the cause of Robert. Duke of Normandy, as the rightful heir to the English throne, and. Henry being the successful contestant, they were deprived of all the English estates.
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7. Arnulph de Montgomerie, fifth son of Roger, being banished from England, crossed into Ireland in the year troo, where he married Lafiacoth, daughter of Murtagh O'Brien. King of Munster. The Irish becoming suspicious of the Normans, resolved to murder them, but Arnulph discovered the plot and made his escape to Normandy, where he spent the remainder of his life until about the year 1119, when he returned to Ireland and was reconciled to his father-in law, but on the morrow fell asleep after a banquet from which he never awoke. He had an only son.
8. Philip de Montgomerie, born about the year 1101. at Pem- broke. Wales, who while yet a youth came over from Normandy with the Earl of Huntingdon. afterward David 1 of Scotland, on his return from a visit to the monastery of Tiron. Here he was called the Welsh- man, or Cymbricus, an evidence of his birthplace having been in Wales. Ile obtained a fair inheritance in Renfrewshire, and married Lady Mar- garet Dunbar, daughter of Cospatric, second Earl of Dunbar and March. As the maner and castle of Thorntoun came into the possession of the family at this period. it came in all probability as Lady Margaret's dower. It is situated about three and a half miles from Dunbar, and immediately opposite Innerwick Castle, divided from it only by a ravine. Hle was succeeded by his son.
9. Robert de Montgomerie, or Mundegumbrie, as it was some- times written, who in addition to his father's lands of Thornton, ob- tained from Walter Stewart the estate of Eaglesham, forming the parish of that name in Renfrew. being about six miles from east to west and seven miles from north to south. This estate, which was the first of any extent, and for two centuries the chief possession of the Scottish family of Montgomery, remained their property undiminished for the
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long period of seven hundred years. Whom he married is unknown. but he was succeeded by his son.
10. Sir John Montgomerie, who married Ilelen, one of the daughters of Robert de Kent. with whom he obtained a part of the estate of her father.
11. Sir Alan de Montgomerie succeeded his father. Sir John, Lut. dying before 1234. was succeeded by his son, Robert, who died before 1261, without issue.
12. Sir John de Montgomerie, of Eaglesham and of Eastwood. succeeded his brother Robert in 1261. and was doubtless in the army raised by Alexander III. to meet the Norwegians under their King. Ilaco, whom he defeated on their landing in the Bay of Ayr, at the famous battle of Largs, in August. 1263. Sir John died about 1285. leaving four sons and a daughter.
13. Sir John de Montgomerie of Eaglesham and Eastwood. Son of the above, was one of the Great Barons of Scotland summoned to appear at Berwick in 1291, and was afterwards, with many of his coun- trymen, it is said. obliged to swear fealty to Edward 1. though his name does not appear on the Ragman's Roll as do those of two of his brothers. As soon as Bruce asserted his claim to the Scottish throne. Sir John joined his standard. He married Janet. daughter of John Erskine, also one of the barons who swore fealty to Edward in 1296. and left two sons and a daughter.
14. Sir Alexander de Montgomerie, of Eaglesham and Eastwood. succeeded his father. In the year 1358 he was one of the barons des- patched to England to treat for the release of their captive sovereign. and on the 24th of October in that year he had letters of permission to pass through England on his way abroad, accompanied by a retinue of sixty horse and foot. Hle married a daughter of William, first Earl
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of Douglas, by his second wife, Margaret, daughter of the Earl of Dunbar and March, by whom he had a son who succeeded him prior to the year 1388.
15. Sir John de Montgomerie, son of the last, married, in 1361. Elizabeth, daughter and heiress of Sir Hugh Eglinton. of Eglinton. and by her obtained the large possessions of that family on the death of her father, together with Ardrossan, the heiress of which estate one of her ancestors had married. Sir John greatly distinguished himself at the Battle of Otterburne. in August. 1388, when his eldest son, Hugh, was slain. His second son.
16. Sir John de Montgomerie, "Dominus Ejusdem, or of that Ilk." succeeded his father before 1398. In 1402 he formed one of the chiefs of the Scotch army which invaded England, and was taken pris- oner at the disastrous battle of Halidon Hill. He was not long a cap- tive. however, for two years after he was in Scotland and introduced the reputed Richard 11 of England to Robert 111. He married Mar- garet, daughter of Sir Robert Maxwell, of Caerlaverock (ancestor of the Earls of Nithsdale), and dying previous to November. 1429, left by her three sons and three daughters.
17. Alexander de Montgomerie, the first Lord Montgomerie, succeeded his father before November 22. 1429. Ile was distinguished for his loyalty to James I and his successors, and was a member of the Privy Council under both. He was also employed in the negotia- tions of various important matters with England. He married Mar- garet, daughter of Sir Thomas Boyd, of Kilmarnock, by whom he had four sons and four daughters. Ile died prior to October 14. 1465.
18. Alexander de Montgomerie, son of the last. died in 1452. be- fore his father. He married Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Adam Hepburn, of Hailes, and by her left three sons.
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19. Mexander, second Lord Montgomerie, succeeded his grand- father in his estates and honors. He married Catherine, daughter of Gilbert, first Lord Kennedy, and died prior to 1484. His son.
20. Ilugh, third Lord Montgomerie, and subsequently the first Earl of Eglinton, having been so created by James IV in 1508. was under age at the time of his father's death, as on October 11. 1484. he executed a revocation of all grants made during his minority. Hle was concerned in the revolt of the barons against James HI in 1487. which resulted in the death of that King, as he tled from the battle of Sauchie, but he was in great faver with James IV. who created him Earl of Eglinton and granted him the constabulary of Rothesay. lle married Lady Helen, daughter of Colin. first Earl of Argyll. by whom he had six sons and eight daughters. He died at an advanced age in November. 1545. and was succeeded by his grandson, his two elder sons predeceasing him.
21. Sir Neil Montgomerie, of Lainshaw, third son of the first Earl. married Margaret. daughter and heiress of Quintin Mure. Laird of Skeldon, by whom he got the lands of Skeldon. Hollow Chapel. Lagante. Charlewrack, etc. He also had a charter from Queen Mary of the lands of U'retonn ( Overton). in the barony of Torbolton, given at Liniithgow. October 4. 1545. In the month preceding this grant he had sat and acted as procuratory in Parliament for his nephew. the second Earl of Eglinton, and in the year following, on the death of the second Earl, during the minority of his son. he assumed the chief- ship of the clan. The year succeeding this he lost his life in a fight with Lord Boyd's son and his adherents, in the streets of Irvine. June. 1547.
22. Sir Neil Montgomerie of Lainshaw, son of the last, succeeded his father and married Jean, daughter and eventually heiress (on the
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death of her brother James, Master of Lyle in 1550). of John, fourth and last Lord Lyle. By this marriage the Lyle estates came into possession of the Montgomerics, but the title was not assumed by Sir Neil. By a charter in 1558 it appears that he possessed very consider- able property, chiefly holding from the Earl of Eglinton. His son,
23. Sir Neil Montgomerie of Lainshaw, who as heir-male to the title and honors of the Gfth Earl of Eglinton, who died without issue, should have succeeded to them on that noblenrin's death in 1613, but by a new grant of 1611 they went to a cousin. Sir Neal was, however. the lineal male representative of the family. He married Elizabeth. daughter of John Cuninghame, of Viket, and died before the year 1613. leaving several children. He was succeeded by his son Neil. he by a son of the same name, and the latter in turn by a son John, who died without issue.
24. William Montgomerie, of Brigend. second son of Sir Neil and Elizabeth Cunninghame, married Jean Montgomerie, the heiress of Brigend, in the year 1602. She was a daughter of John Montgomerie. the son and heir of the late James Montgomerie, of Brigend, whose relationship to the other Montgomeries has not been discovered. Bri- gend, or Bridgend, as formerly spelt, is in the parish of Maybole, Ayr- shire, and situated immediately on the banks of the river Doon, about one-fourth of a mile below and on the opposite side of Alloway Kirk- yard. It was known as Nether Auchundraine prior to the building (in the year 1466) of the "Auld Brig of Doon," so celebrated in "Tam O'Shanter." William Montgomerie, of Brigend, was living as late as 1652, but died prior to 1658. He had four sons. John. William. James and Hugh.
25. John Montgomerie, of Brigend, eldest son of William, married in 1626, Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas Baxter, of Shrinston, and died
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prior to 1647. during the life of his father, leaving two sons, Hugh and James.
26. Hugh Montgomerie, of Brigend, succeeded his grandfather subsequently to the year 1652, and on the death of John Montgomery. of Lainshaw, within two or three years of that date, as his heir male. became the chief of the family, which honor is now borne by his de- scendants.
In the year 1653 he married Katharine, second daughter of Sir William Scott. of Clerkington, by whom he had two sons and three daughters. He died May 6, 1710. over eighty years of age, having re- sided the last twelve years of his life in Glasgow, under the roof and on the charity of his younger son James.
27. William Montgomerie, of Brigend, eldest son of Hugh, mar- ried January 8, 1784. in Edinburgh. Isabel, daughter of Robert Burnett. of Lethintie, Aberdeenshire, of the family of Leys Burnetts. of which was Gilbert Burnett. Bishop of Salisbury. Their marriage settlement is in complete preservation and measures six feet in length. Robert Burnett was extensively concerned in the Quaker settlement of East Jersey, and became one of the proprietors of that province, and it ap- pears that his daughter went with him to America, but was sent back to complete her education in Scotland, where she married.
At the time of William Montgomerie's marriage his father. Hugh. appears to have had a considerable estate, some of which he settled on his son, but financial reverses not now understood led then to dispose of the estate of Brigend in 1692 to their cousin John Montgomerie. of Beach. In 1701-2 William crossed the ocean with his young family. and settled on Doctor's creek, in Monmouth county. East Jersey, where by deel of May 20. 1706. he purchased five hundred acres of land from his father-in-law, Robert Burnett, of Freehold. Eglinton, the
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name of this estate, is situated about two miles from Allentown. In their new home the family appear to have united with the Friends and become members of the meeting at Crosswicks. Burlington county. William was living in 1721, but the date of his death is unknown. le had children : Robert, Anna, Elizabeth, William. James, Alexander and Jane.
28. Robert Montgomerie, of Eglinton. was born, probably at Brigend, in the year 1687, and was married at Burlington, February 8. 1709-10, to Sarah Stacy, of that place. She is believed to have been the daughter of Henry Stacy, of the hamlet of Spitalfields, parish of Stepney. Middlesex, whose will, dated at that place. March 28. 1684. was admitted to probate in Burlington county, on March 15. 1702. She died March 9. 1743-4. and was buried at Crosswicks. Her husband made his will August 28. 1762, which was probated October 1. 1766. They resided at Eglinton and had children. Mary. Elizabeth, William, Sarah, William 2d. Anna. James and John.
29. James Montgomerie, eldest son of Robert, was born at Eglin- ton, February 26. 1720, and married May 15. 1746. Esther Wood, daughter of John and Susan Wood, and granddaughter of William Wood. of Leicester, who came to America in the "Flie-boat Martha." in the autumn of 1677. James died in 1759-60. and was doubtless buried at Crosswicks. He had children, Rebecca. Robert, John, William, Sarah. James and Joseph.
30. John Montgomery, son of the last, was born at Eglinton. July 7. 1750. Before he was twenty years of age he parted with his share of his grandfather's estate and removed to Philadelphia, where he and his brother William subsequently united themselves together in mercantile pusuits. In the Revolutionary war he took part in military matters and was a member of the First City Troop of Cavalry from 1777
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to 1787. but the hardships of a soldier's life undermined his health and eventually ended his life. March 16, 1794. when he left behind him the reputation of great integrity as a merchant.
He married. November 3. 1785. Mary, daughter of Jonathan Cra- thorne, of Philadelphia, formerly of the West Indies, and by birth an Englishman, who married. August 16, 1700. Mary Keen, descended from Joran Kyn or Keen, an early Swedish settler on the Delaware. Mrs. Montgomery was born August 4. 1765. and died October 15. 1848. She had three children, Austin. James and John Crathorne.
31. John C. Montgomery, the youngest son, was born in Phila- delphia. November 1. 1702, where he resided many years, having also lived some years on his estate of Eglinton, on the North river, and after 1855 in New York city. He married. November 25. 1817. Eliza- beth Henrietta, only daughter of Henry Philips, of Philadelphia. She died July 11. 1850. leaving a large family. Her husband married secondly. Caroline, only daughter of Nehemiah Rogers, of New York. November 27. 1855. By his first wife he had children. John P .. Henry E .. Oswall Crathorne. Austin James, James E., Charles Howard. Ben- jamin Chew. Hardman Philips and Mary Crathorne.
32. Oswald C. Montgomery, born August 24. 1822, married October 3. 1849. Catharine Gertrude, daughter of George W. Lynch, of New York, and resided in Philadelphia. Issue :
Charles Howard, born July 16, 1850.
George Lynch, barn October 28, 1851: died February 22. 1852. Henry Eglinton, born December 25. 1852, died February 10. 1877. Mary Ann, bern April 1. 1854: died May 30. 1857. 33. Thomas Lynch, born March 4. 1862.
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CHRISTOPHER MAGEE.
Hon. Christopher Magee, LL. D., one of the most prominent law- yers and jurists of Pittsburg. Pennsylvania, has a most interesting his- tory, not only so far as his honorable personal career is concerned, but on account of his family connections. lle is of Scotch-Irish descent. His grandfather, Robert Magce, was born in county Derry, Ireland, in 1737, and came with his wife and seven children to . America in 1788. The family settled at Pittsburg, and many of the descendants still make that their home. Robert's son Christopher was the seventh child, and was but two years old when the emigration was made. He married Jane Watson, who was born in Pittsburg in 1796, and it is through her that Mr. Magee gets his Scotch blood. Her parents were Alexander Thomson and Elizabeth Edmundston, who, in July. 1771. with twelve children, embarked on the ship Friendship in the harbor of Greenock. Scotland, and arrived in Boston in the following September, whence they proceeded to Franklin county, Pennsylvania, settling on a place which was called "Corkerhill." AAlexander Thomson was the ancestor of Frank Thomson, the late president of the Pennsylvania Railroad. Christopher Magee has blood relationship also with many prominent men. Matthew J. Magee, of the Pittsburg bar, and afterwards in the United States army, was an uncle: another uncle was Robert Watson, a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania in 1820. Other relatives. near or remote. include Colonel Samuel W. Black, at one time governor of Nebraska: W. W. Thomson, who prepared the Pittsburg Digest : Rev. Samuel B. Wylie. D. D., of the University of Pennsylvania ; Rev. John Black, D. D., a professor in the Western University of Pennsylvania : Hon. C. L. Magee, the well known Pennsylvania politician : Hon. Thomas
Christopher Magre.
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A. Hendricks, late vice-president of the United States ; and Hon. Samuel A. Purviance.
Christopher Magee was born in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, in 1829. He was sent to the Western University of Pennsylvania and received in 1848. the degree of Bachelor of Arts from that institution, which later conferred upon him the degrees of A. M. and LL. D. After finishing his course at Western University he entered the University of Pennsylvania and received the .V. B. degree there in 1849. and the \. M. in cursu. With the profession of law already decided upon as his life work, he began his studies preparatory thereto in the offices of William B. Reed and Mexander Mckinley at Philadelphia, and at the same time attended the lectures in the law department of the University of Penn- sylvania, which was at that time under the direction of Judge Shars- wood. He was graduated from this school in 1852, and in the following December was admitted to the Philadelphia bar. A little later he was admitted to practice at the bar of the supreme court. and on April 11, 1853, on motion of Colonel Samuel W. Black, at the bar of Alle- gheny county. Pennsylvania.
He then returned to Pittsburg and entered upon the practice which has since been so successful, and which he has continued to the present time. For several years he was associated with Henry A. Davis under the name of Magee and Davis. A large clientele, individual and corpor- ate, claimed the service of Mr. Magee in cases before the local and higher courts, and he still enjoys this patronage. In 1856 Judge Magee. who has always been a Democrat, was elected to the Pennsylvania legis- lature. In 1859 he was elected to the city council of Pittsburg. October 7, 1885. Governor Pattison appointed him judge of the court of common pleas No. 2. and in November, 1886, he was elected for the full term of ten years from January. 1887. While on the bench he was one of the
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most popular judges, and many thousands of civil and criminal cases came before him, and he gained an excellent record for expedition and impartiality.
Judge Magee was a candidate for mayor of Pittsburg twice, and was twice a candidate for judge of the orphans' court of Allegheny county. In 1895 he was his party's nominee for judge of the superior court of Pennsylvania, and was once a presidential elector. Besides these instances of his interest in public life. Judge Magee has been associated with a number of institutions of charitable and social nature. Ile is a corporator of the Shadyside Academy. the Hospital for Children and the Allegheny cemetery ; and is a member of the Academy of Arts and Sciences, the chamber of commerce of Pittsburg. the University Club of Philadelphia, the Delta Phi Club of New York. the Pennsylvania Forestry Association and other organizations. On January 12. 1859. Judge Magee was married 11 Elizabeth Louise, daughter of Rev. John Viel Mcleod. D. D., of New York city. They have six children : John Viel Mel.cod. Margaret McLeod. Christopher. Jr., Norman McLeod. Jane Watson and Walter Pollock Magee.
JOHN CHALMERS DA COST.A. M. D.
John Chalmers Da Costa. M. D., professor of principles of surgery and clinical surgery in the Jefferson Medical College, is a native of Philadelphia, born in 1863. and is descended from an old family of that city. his father. George T. Da Costa, having been well known as a literateur and bibliophile. His grandfather was for years engaged in the East India shipping trade, and also was one of the founders and the first president of the Camden and Atlantic Railroad.
Professor Da Costa was educated in the Friends' Central school
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and the University of Pennsylvania, graduating from the latter as an analytical chemist, in 1882, after which he began a medical course at Jefferson, his preceptor being his uncle. Dr. John C. Da Costa. He was graduated from the Medical College in 1888 and son afterward a successful candidate in a competitive examination for the position of resident physician at the Philadelphia Hospital. Here he remained thirteen months and then was appointed assistant physician to the in- sane department of the hospital. During this time he prepared several papers on insanity.
In 1887 Dr. Da Costa became one of Dr. Chapin's assistants in the Pennsylvania Hospital for the Insane. Later in the same year he began private practice and was made assistant demonstrator of anatomy at Jefferson, being one of the clinical assistants of the younger Gross. Since that time he has been actively identified with college and hospital work, and his successive advance in that department may be mentioned as follows: Assistant demonstrator of surgery, demonstrator of sur- gery, chief of surgical clinic and assistant surgeon to the hospital. clinical professor of surgery (1896) and professor of principles of surgery ( 1900). Ile is also surgeon to the pension fund of the Phila- delphia fire department.
Some of Dr. Da Costa's contributions to the literature of the pro- fession may be noted about as follows: In collaboration with Dr. Frederick Packard on "Keating's Medical Dictionary": articles on Meth- ods of Dissection in "Nancrede's Anatomy": article on Epilepsy and Tetanus in Hare's "American System of Therapeutics": articles on Diseases of the Testicle, etc., in Keating's "Cyclopedia of Children's Diseases": a "Mannal of M dern Surgery" ( three editions) : editor of "Zuckerkanal's Operative Surgery": address on Surgery before the Pennsylvania State Medical Society, in 1898: address on the fiftieth
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anniversary of the Philadelphia County Medical Society in 1899: the Blood Alterations of Ether Anesthesia, in 1895; various articles on compound fractures of the skull, amputation of the hip joint, sarcoma of. tonsil; trephining of skull, surgery of insanity, together with addresses on other medical and surgical subjects, and review of the lives, char- acter and history of notable physicians and surgeons and institutions of the profession. He is a member of the Philadelphia County Medical Society, the Pathological Society of Philadelphia. a fellow of the Col- lege of Physicians of Philadelphia, the Philadelphia Academy of Sur- gery, the American Medical Association, the American Surgical Asso- ciation, and an honorary fellow of the Society of Surgery of Bucharest. Roumania.
GEORGE MILBRY GOULD, M. D.
George Milbry Gould. M. D., was born in Auburn, Androscoggin county, Maine, November 8. 1848, son of George Thomas and Eliza .Ann (Lapham) Gould. His American ancestor was Robert Gould, who came from Somersetshire, England, and settled in Hull, Massa- chusetts, about the year 1633. Dr. Gould has collected genealogical data of about 1000 of Robert's descendants, some of whom still live in Hull. His mother died when he was two years old, and he accom- panied his father to Ohio, where he acquired an elementary education in the public schools of Athens. When only twelve years old he ac- companied the Sixty-third Regiment Ohio Volunteers to the front as a drummerboy. A year and a half later he was discharged for disa- bility, and in 1865 he again enlisted in the One Hundred and Forty-first Ohio Volunteer Infantry, with which he served until mustered out at the close of the war. Resuming at a later date the pursuit of his educa-
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