Person:Romanzo Montgomery (1)

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Romanzo Warwick Montgomery
d.4 Oct 1867
Facts and Events
Name Romanzo Warwick Montgomery
Alt Name[2] Jesse J Sleeper
Gender Male
Birth? Abt 1804 Bristol, Grafton, New Hampshire, United States
Marriage to Virginia Carolina High
Other[2] 1824 Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United Stateschanged his name to Romanzo Warwick Montgomery
Census[4] 1850 New Orleans, Orleans, Louisiana, United States
Census[5] 1860 Mount Vernon, Westchester, New York, United StatesWest Farms
Death[1] 4 Oct 1867 age 63 -
Burial[1] Saint Pauls Church Cemetery, Mount Vernon, Westchester, New York, United States
References
  1. 1.0 1.1 Grave Recorded, in Find A Grave
    [No headstone photo], last accessed Jan 2017.
  2. 2.0 2.1 Massachusetts, United States. Private and Special Statutes of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Wright & Potter, State Printers, 1837
    6:138.

    1823. - CHAP. 72.
    [An act to change the names of the persons therein mentioned.]
    ... that Jesse J. Sleeper, of Boston, may take the name of Romanzo Warwick Montgomery ; ...

  3.   McBride, Mary Gorton. Randall Lee Gibson of Louisiana: Confederate General and New South Reformer. LSU Press, 2007.

    ... Mary Montgomery, the eldest daughter of Romanzo Warwick and Virginia Carolina High Montgomery, ... A native of New England, Montgomery was a banker and businessman in antebellum New Orleans, where he had met and married Virginia High, the daughter of Col. Solomon High, in 1842. He was one of the northern-born commercial elite of New Orleans, which included friends such as Paul Tulane. Montgomery made a fortune in hardware with the firm of Richards and Montgomery, amassed extensive real estate holdings in New Orleans and New York, and lived in a gracious home on Burgundy and Canal streets. In 1850 he was president of the Bank of Louisiana and later became head of the Canal and Banking Company of New Orleans. Before the Civil War the Montgomery family had moved to New York, where they lived at High Bridge, Westchester County, ...

  4. Orleans, Louisiana, United States. 1850 U.S. Census Population Schedule.

    Year: 1850; Census Place: New Orleans Municipality 1 Ward 1, Orleans, Louisiana; Roll: M432_235; Page: 9B; Image: 23
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    Family Number: 159
    Household Members:
    Name Age Sex Occupation RE Value Bplace
    R W Montgomery 38 M None 60,000 NH
    Virginia C Montgomery 26 F --- --- VA
    Edward Montgomery 5 M --- --- LA
    Virginia Montgomery 3 F --- --- LA
    Rosina Montgomery 0 F --- --- LA

  5. Westchester, New York, United States. 1860 U.S. Census Population Schedule.

    Year: 1860; Census Place: West Farms, Westchester, New York; Roll: M653_878; Page: 469; Image: 545; Family History Library Film: 803878
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    Post Office: Mount Vernon
    Family Number: 4065
    Household Members:
    Name Age Occ RE PE Bplace
    Romanza Montgomery 52 --- 20,000 5,000 NH
    Virginia C Montgomery 35 --- --- --- NY [sic]
    Emila Montgomery 8 --- --- --- NY [sic]
    Virginia L Montgomery 7 --- --- --- NY [sic]
    Frank Montgomery 6 --- --- --- France
    Mary C Montgomery 5 --- --- --- France
    Lawrence Behn 29 Coachman --- --- Ireland
    Nathalie Lnonia 26 Domestic --- --- France
    Loretta Lnonia 18 Domestic --- --- France
    Agusta Shroobe 25 Domestic --- --- Germany