CHARLES FRANCIS MONTGOMERY has been an active member of the bar at Liberty for twenty years, is a former state senator, has put his time and means at the disposal of numerous patriotic and civic movements, has been very successful in his business career, and is now president of the Commercial Bank of Liberty.
Mr. Montgomery was born in Lincoln County July 11, 1877. He represents a pioneer Kentucky family. Its founder was his great-great-grandfather, a native of Albemarle County, Virginia, who moved to Adair County, Kentucky, at the beginning of the nineteenth century. For several generations the family had extensive interests as farmers and slave holding planters in Adair County. ...
Charles Francis Montgomery spent his boyhood largely in rural districts of Lincoln and Casey counties and attended the common schools there. In 1898 he graduated A. B. from Transylavania University at Lexington and in 1900 received the Master of Arts degree from his alma mater. For one year he was a student of law in Washington and Lee University at Lexington, Virginia, and was admitted to the bar in August, 1901. His admission to the bar was followed immediately by the opening of his office at Liberty, and since then a general clientage in both the civil and criminal branches of the law has rewarded his talents and efforts.
Mr. Montgomery was elected and served as county attorney from 1906 to 1910. In November, 1913, he was elected to the State Senate from the Eighteenth Senatorial District, comprising Boyle, Lincoln, Garrard and Casey counties. In the 1914 session he was chairman of the committee on courts and legal procedure, in the session of 1916 was chairman of the committee on penal and reformatory institutions, serving on other important committees as well. He was also a member of the special session of 1917.
Mr. Montgomery has been president of the Commercial Bank of Liberty since September, 1920. This is one of the older banks of Casey County, having been established in 1895, and its cashier, A. P. Young, has been identified with the bank from the beginning. Its capital is $30,000, surplus and profits, $35,000, and deposits, $300,000. Mr. Montgomery is also a director of the Peoples Bank of Hustonville, and is secretary and treasurer of the Black Lake Lumber Company of Louisiana, the company's headquarters being in Mr. Montgomery's office at Liberty. He is also a partner in the firm of Walden & Mongtomery [sic], stave manufacturers.
During the World war he was chairman of all the Liberty Loan campaigns of Casey County, was a county fuel administrator and a member of the Legal Advisory Board of the county. For months the duties of these positions required his time to the practical exclusion of his business and profession.
Mr. Montgomery owns his office building on the Court House Square, a modern home on Middleburg Street and two farms in Casey County. He is a democrat, a deacon of the Christian Church and superintendent of its Sunday School, and is affiliated with Craftsman Lodge No. 722, F. and A. M., at Liberty, Liberty Chapter No. 84, R. A., M., and Liberty Tent No. 51, Knights of the Maccabees.
On September 28, 1904, at Hustonville, he married Miss Mary Allene Carpenter, daughter of T. L. and Abbie (Riffe) Carpenter, the latter now deceased. Her father for many years was a farmer in the Hustonville community and is now living retired at Newcastle, Indiana. Mr. and Mrs. Montgomery have two children: Morris Carpenter, born April 1, 1907, and Abbie Riffe, born May 18, 1911.
