Ward Pease MONTGOMERY

Father: James Ivor MONTGOMERY
Mother: Mary A LETT

Family 1: May Belle FITZGERALD
  1. Marilla May MONTGOMERY
  2. James Robert MONTGOMERY
  3. Mary Louise MONTGOMERY 
                                                                              _Thomas MONTGOMERY _
                                                    _John Harper MONTGOMERY _|_Rebecca HARPER ____
                          _John Nelson MONTGOMERY _|
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 _James Ivor MONTGOMERY _|
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|--Ward Pease MONTGOMERY 
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|_Mary A LETT ___________|
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Notes

Lived at 115 N. View Street, Aurora, while in High School. Ward produced artwork throughou t high school for various booklets and pamphlets and more. He longed to be a commercial arti st. Produced many fine pen and ink drawings as early as 1896. He was a tackle for and Capta in of the East Aurora Football Team for at least two years: 1896 & 1897. He was manager of t he Track Team in 1896. Graduated from East Aurora High School in 1899 in the same Class as h is future wife, May Belle Fitzgerald. He attended University of Michigan, 1899 - 1900. At the University of Michigan he was initia ted into Phi Delta Theta fraternity on Sunday, November 17, 1899. He was enrolled in a cours e of study for Commercial Artist or The Law School (TBD). He took a correspondence art course in 1923 through which his talent truly began to emerge . Many of the pieces remain examples of a true artist more than one hundred years after the y were carefully penned, painted and drawn. He engaged in farming after returning from College in 1900 until 1923, then moving his famil y into Aurora after the Lett Farm was sold (for taxes). Ward continued to do a little surveying after the move to Aurora but shortly after the move s uccumbed to a ruptured duodenal ulcer from which his Doctor could not provide relief nor a cu re. He was a kind, sweet and gentle man as recorded in his wife May's personal journal of Januar y 1 to February 4, 1913. He died of inoperable conditions in 1923.



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