WORLD WAR I
Son of William Joseph and Annie Stackhouse Motgomery, he never married.
MARION - Funeral services for John Kenly Montgomery, 46, one of the first airline executives in this country, who died suddenly Saturday of a throat ailment at the Episcopal Hospital in Washington, were to be held at 4 p.m. yesterday, at his home town, Marion, at the old Montgomery home. Interment followed in the Montgomery plot in the Methodist Church cemetery.
Mr. Montgomery, son of William Joseph and Mrs. Annie Stackhouse Montgomery of Marion, graduated from Wofford in 1916, and soon afterward entered the First World War as a pilot in naval aviation.
After the war he was connected with the early organization of Pan American Airways. He later organized and operated the New York, Rio and Buenos Aires airline as president, spending much time in South America.
At the beginning of the Second World War he was president of American Aviation Inc., with offices in New York and Buenos Aires. When war began he returned to become liaison man in the Washington office of the Consolidated Aircraft Corporation. Not long before his death he had returned from a 28,000 mile trip of inspection for his company.
He never married. He leaves as relatives a brother, T. C. Montgomery of Washington DC; two sisters, Mrs. Horace L. Tilghman, Sr. and Miss Mabel Montgomery of Marion; two nieces, Miss Anne Tilghman of the Yale School of Nursing, New Haven, Conn., and Chris Anne Montgomery of Washington; a nephew, Ensign Horace L. Tilghman, Jr. of Great Lakes Training Station.
Published in The State, April 12, 1943
"John, a Wofford graduate, joined the organizers of Pan American Airways, and later set up his own airline in South America, he was a pioneer aviator and businessman.
John enlisted for flight training in World War I; following the war and concerned about air power, he testified before a Congressional Committee on the need for a separate Air Force and on behalf of Gen. William 'Billy' Mitchell, who is regarded as the father of the U.S. Air Force; Montgomery also testified at Mitchell's court martial that followed the General's controversial criticism of the U.S. military leadership. In a letter, 2 Mar. 1926, Mitchell thanks him, "The aid you gave me and my counsel...is deeply appreciated."
Son of William Joseph and Annie Stackhouse Motgomery, he never married.
MARION - Funeral services for John Kenly Montgomery, 46, one of the first airline executives in this country, who died suddenly Saturday of a throat ailment at the Episcopal Hospital in Washington, were to be held at 4 p.m. yesterday, at his home town, Marion, at the old Montgomery home. Interment followed in the Montgomery plot in the Methodist Church cemetery.
Mr. Montgomery, son of William Joseph and Mrs. Annie Stackhouse Montgomery of Marion, graduated from Wofford in 1916, and soon afterward entered the First World War as a pilot in naval aviation.
After the war he was connected with the early organization of Pan American Airways. He later organized and operated the New York, Rio and Buenos Aires airline as president, spending much time in South America.
At the beginning of the Second World War he was president of American Aviation Inc., with offices in New York and Buenos Aires. When war began he returned to become liaison man in the Washington office of the Consolidated Aircraft Corporation. Not long before his death he had returned from a 28,000 mile trip of inspection for his company.
He never married. He leaves as relatives a brother, T. C. Montgomery of Washington DC; two sisters, Mrs. Horace L. Tilghman, Sr. and Miss Mabel Montgomery of Marion; two nieces, Miss Anne Tilghman of the Yale School of Nursing, New Haven, Conn., and Chris Anne Montgomery of Washington; a nephew, Ensign Horace L. Tilghman, Jr. of Great Lakes Training Station.
Published in The State, April 12, 1943
"John, a Wofford graduate, joined the organizers of Pan American Airways, and later set up his own airline in South America, he was a pioneer aviator and businessman.
John enlisted for flight training in World War I; following the war and concerned about air power, he testified before a Congressional Committee on the need for a separate Air Force and on behalf of Gen. William 'Billy' Mitchell, who is regarded as the father of the U.S. Air Force; Montgomery also testified at Mitchell's court martial that followed the General's controversial criticism of the U.S. military leadership. In a letter, 2 Mar. 1926, Mitchell thanks him, "The aid you gave me and my counsel...is deeply appreciated."
WORLD WAR I
Son of William Joseph and Annie Stackhouse Motgomery, he never married.
MARION - Funeral services for John Kenly Montgomery, 46, one of the first airline executives in this country, who died suddenly Saturday of a throat ailment at the Episcopal Hospital in Washington, were to be held at 4 p.m. yesterday, at his home town, Marion, at the old Montgomery home. Interment followed in the Montgomery plot in the Methodist Church cemetery.
Mr. Montgomery, son of William Joseph and Mrs. Annie Stackhouse Montgomery of Marion, graduated from Wofford in 1916, and soon afterward entered the First World War as a pilot in naval aviation.
After the war he was connected with the early organization of Pan American Airways. He later organized and operated the New York, Rio and Buenos Aires airline as president, spending much time in South America.
At the beginning of the Second World War he was president of American Aviation Inc., with offices in New York and Buenos Aires. When war began he returned to become liaison man in the Washington office of the Consolidated Aircraft Corporation. Not long before his death he had returned from a 28,000 mile trip of inspection for his company.
He never married. He leaves as relatives a brother, T. C. Montgomery of Washington DC; two sisters, Mrs. Horace L. Tilghman, Sr. and Miss Mabel Montgomery of Marion; two nieces, Miss Anne Tilghman of the Yale School of Nursing, New Haven, Conn., and Chris Anne Montgomery of Washington; a nephew, Ensign Horace L. Tilghman, Jr. of Great Lakes Training Station.
Published in The State, April 12, 1943
"John, a Wofford graduate, joined the organizers of Pan American Airways, and later set up his own airline in South America, he was a pioneer aviator and businessman.
John enlisted for flight training in World War I; following the war and concerned about air power, he testified before a Congressional Committee on the need for a separate Air Force and on behalf of Gen. William 'Billy' Mitchell, who is regarded as the father of the U.S. Air Force; Montgomery also testified at Mitchell's court martial that followed the General's controversial criticism of the U.S. military leadership. In a letter, 2 Mar. 1926, Mitchell thanks him, "The aid you gave me and my counsel...is deeply appreciated."
Son of William Joseph and Annie Stackhouse Motgomery, he never married.
MARION - Funeral services for John Kenly Montgomery, 46, one of the first airline executives in this country, who died suddenly Saturday of a throat ailment at the Episcopal Hospital in Washington, were to be held at 4 p.m. yesterday, at his home town, Marion, at the old Montgomery home. Interment followed in the Montgomery plot in the Methodist Church cemetery.
Mr. Montgomery, son of William Joseph and Mrs. Annie Stackhouse Montgomery of Marion, graduated from Wofford in 1916, and soon afterward entered the First World War as a pilot in naval aviation.
After the war he was connected with the early organization of Pan American Airways. He later organized and operated the New York, Rio and Buenos Aires airline as president, spending much time in South America.
At the beginning of the Second World War he was president of American Aviation Inc., with offices in New York and Buenos Aires. When war began he returned to become liaison man in the Washington office of the Consolidated Aircraft Corporation. Not long before his death he had returned from a 28,000 mile trip of inspection for his company.
He never married. He leaves as relatives a brother, T. C. Montgomery of Washington DC; two sisters, Mrs. Horace L. Tilghman, Sr. and Miss Mabel Montgomery of Marion; two nieces, Miss Anne Tilghman of the Yale School of Nursing, New Haven, Conn., and Chris Anne Montgomery of Washington; a nephew, Ensign Horace L. Tilghman, Jr. of Great Lakes Training Station.
Published in The State, April 12, 1943
"John, a Wofford graduate, joined the organizers of Pan American Airways, and later set up his own airline in South America, he was a pioneer aviator and businessman.
John enlisted for flight training in World War I; following the war and concerned about air power, he testified before a Congressional Committee on the need for a separate Air Force and on behalf of Gen. William 'Billy' Mitchell, who is regarded as the father of the U.S. Air Force; Montgomery also testified at Mitchell's court martial that followed the General's controversial criticism of the U.S. military leadership. In a letter, 2 Mar. 1926, Mitchell thanks him, "The aid you gave me and my counsel...is deeply appreciated."
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