Er ist verheiratet mit Helen Kilmer.
Sie haben geheiratet im Jahr 1859, er war 23 Jahre alt.
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Alpheus C. Montanye | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
1859 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Helen Kilmer |
Alpheus C. Montanye, funeral director, Wilkes Barre, was born at New Vernon, Orange County, New York, March 21, 1835, a son of Samuel C. and Margaret (Smiley) Montanye. ; The father, who was also a native of Orange county, N.Y., was a son of Benjamin F. Montanye, a son of Thomas Montanye, a native of France, and both were pioneers of Orange County. Thomas carried dispatches for Gen. Washington, was captured by the British, and expected to be executed, but was retaken by the Continental forces. Samuel C. Montanye settled at what is now Parsons, this county, in 1844, where he carried on the business of manufacturer of woolens for many years, in later life removing to Wilkes Barre, where he died in 1875. He was twice married, his first wife being Margaret Smiley, by whom he had five children, three of whom grew to maturity, viz: Jane E. (Mrs. G. W. Hoover), Juliett (Mrs. Eugene Adams), and Alpheus C. His second wife was Julia Silvius, by whom he had five children: Thomas B., J. Henry, Samuel L., Mary (Mrs. Daniel Pursel), and Charles O. Our subject was reared in Luzerne county from ten years of age, and from eleven until seventeen was employed in his father's woolen factory. He then served an apprenticeship at the furniture finisher's trade, which he has followed more or less since, and for twenty-two years has been in the employ of Voorhis & Page, and Voorhis & Murray, since 1890 as funeral director. In 1859 he was married to Helen, daughter of Robert and Eliza (Eicke) Kilmer, of Wilkes Barre, and they have two daughters: Olive A. (Mrs. F.B. Forbes) and Elenor E. Mr. Montanye served four months in the Civil war as a member of Company F, Eight P.V., receiving an honorable discharge at expiration of his term of service. He is a member of the M.E. Church, of the I.O.O.F., and G.A.R., and in politics is a Republican.