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Rev Giles Foster Montgomery

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Rev Giles Foster Montgomery

Birth
Walden, Caledonia County, Vermont, USA
Death
4 Dec 1888 (aged 53)
Adana, Seyhan İlçesi, Adana, Türkiye
Burial
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Catalogue of officers and students of Middlebury College in Middlebury, Vermont: and of others who have received degrees, 1800-1915. Compiled by Edgar Jolls Wiley; By the College, 1917. p. 200, Class of 1860.

*GILES FOSTER MONTGOMERY, son of Sereno and Hannah (Foster) Montgomery. Born in Walden, Vt., Nov. 9, 1835. Prepared for College in Danville and St. Johnsbury Academies. Lane Theological Seminary, 1863. Ordained, 1863. Missionary in Turkey from 1863 until his death. Teacher of Systematic Theology in Central Turkey Theological Seminary after 1869. United States Consular Agent, at Marash, after 1877. Married Emily Redington, Aug. 19, 1863. Children: *William O.; Marshall F.; George R.; *Charles; Mary W. A.T. — A.B.; A.M., 1863. Died in Adana, Turkey, Dec. 4, 1888.

* = dead at time of publication.

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Catalogue of officers and students of Middlebury College in Middlebury, Vermont: and of others who have received degrees, 1800-1915. Compiled by Edgar Jolls Wiley; By the College, 1917. p. 200, Class of 1860.

*GILES FOSTER MONTGOMERY, son of Sereno and Hannah (Foster) Montgomery. Born in Walden, Vt., Nov. 9, 1835. Prepared for College in Danville and St. Johnsbury Academies. Lane Theological Seminary, 1863. Ordained, 1863. Missionary in Turkey from 1863 until his death. Teacher of Systematic Theology in Central Turkey Theological Seminary after 1869. United States Consular Agent, at Marash, after 1877. Married Emily Redington, Aug. 19, 1863. Children: *William O.; Marshall F.; George R.; *Charles; Mary W. A.T. — A.B.; A.M., 1863. Died in Adana, Turkey, Dec. 4, 1888.

* = dead at time of publication.

An extended bio will be added later.

Inscription

REV. GILES FOSTER MONTGOMERY
Son of Sereno & Hannah Foster Montgomery
Born Walden, VT 1835. Died Adana, Turkey 1888.
EMILY REDINGTON, HIS WIFE
Born Moscow, NY 1859. Reared Morristown, VT
Died Beirut, Turkey [sic, Lebanon] 1898.
Because they have no Graves on this Rich Hill near those they Loved, let this Stone mark the lives they lived in distant lands, as Teachers of the Word Of God.
Erected by their Grandson Marshall Hugh Montgomery
1976

Marshall Hugh Montgomery (1909-2000) was the son of Giles and Emily's son Rev. George Redington Montgomery (1870-1945).



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