Charles Adam Montague, son of George Lehman Montague and Minnie Geneva Behler, was born 26 August 1906 at Bellaire, Antrim County, Michigan. He attended grade school and high school at Bellaire, Michigan, where he was president of his senior class. He attended the University of Michigan for one year and then attended Ellendale State Normal and Industrial School at Ellendale, North Dakota, majoring in industrial arts. After two years at Ellendale, he got a job teaching industrial arts in Edgeley, North Dakota, and coaching football and basketball. He attended summer school and obtained his B.S. in 1931 and a Masters degree in education from North Dakota University in 1939. In 1935 he became principal of the high school in Berlin, North Dakota, but left in January 1938 to teach at Jamestown, North Dakota, where he taught industrial arts until January 1942.
Sometime during the depression years, Charles had applied for Civil Service work; within three weeks of the bombing of Pearl Harbor he received a letter asking him to report to Chicago to take a training course to teach in a Naval Air Force Facility. Within two weeks he was in Chicago. In October 1942 he exchanged his civilian clothes for a uniform but continued in the same job as an Aviation Chief Metalsmith in the Navy rather than as a civilian instructor. He remained at Navy Pier, Chicago, until the spring of 1944 when he was transferred to Hutchinson, Kansas, for six months; he was then sent to Wold Chamberlain Field in Minneapolis until the end of the war.
In 1933 Charles met Vera Maurine McCurdy who had joined the teaching staff at Edgeley. They married 10 August 1938 at Fargo, North Dakota, and subsequently resided in Jamestown, North Dakota. After the war, they returned to Fargo where Charles worked for the Veteran's Administration as a training officer. In 1959 he studied guidance and counselling at the University of North Dakota and completed most of the coursework for a Ph.D. transferring in February 1961 to Sioux Falls, South Dakota, where he was a counselling psychologist with the Veteran's Administration until his death. He died 10 October 1971 at his home in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, from a heart attack.
Charles was a member of Asbury Methodist Church, Sioux Falls, and had previously been a member of the First Methodist Church in Fargo. While living in Fargo he had also been a member of the Masons and the Elks.
Sometime during the depression years, Charles had applied for Civil Service work; within three weeks of the bombing of Pearl Harbor he received a letter asking him to report to Chicago to take a training course to teach in a Naval Air Force Facility. Within two weeks he was in Chicago. In October 1942 he exchanged his civilian clothes for a uniform but continued in the same job as an Aviation Chief Metalsmith in the Navy rather than as a civilian instructor. He remained at Navy Pier, Chicago, until the spring of 1944 when he was transferred to Hutchinson, Kansas, for six months; he was then sent to Wold Chamberlain Field in Minneapolis until the end of the war.
In 1933 Charles met Vera Maurine McCurdy who had joined the teaching staff at Edgeley. They married 10 August 1938 at Fargo, North Dakota, and subsequently resided in Jamestown, North Dakota. After the war, they returned to Fargo where Charles worked for the Veteran's Administration as a training officer. In 1959 he studied guidance and counselling at the University of North Dakota and completed most of the coursework for a Ph.D. transferring in February 1961 to Sioux Falls, South Dakota, where he was a counselling psychologist with the Veteran's Administration until his death. He died 10 October 1971 at his home in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, from a heart attack.
Charles was a member of Asbury Methodist Church, Sioux Falls, and had previously been a member of the First Methodist Church in Fargo. While living in Fargo he had also been a member of the Masons and the Elks.
Charles Adam Montague, son of George Lehman Montague and Minnie Geneva Behler, was born 26 August 1906 at Bellaire, Antrim County, Michigan. He attended grade school and high school at Bellaire, Michigan, where he was president of his senior class. He attended the University of Michigan for one year and then attended Ellendale State Normal and Industrial School at Ellendale, North Dakota, majoring in industrial arts. After two years at Ellendale, he got a job teaching industrial arts in Edgeley, North Dakota, and coaching football and basketball. He attended summer school and obtained his B.S. in 1931 and a Masters degree in education from North Dakota University in 1939. In 1935 he became principal of the high school in Berlin, North Dakota, but left in January 1938 to teach at Jamestown, North Dakota, where he taught industrial arts until January 1942.
Sometime during the depression years, Charles had applied for Civil Service work; within three weeks of the bombing of Pearl Harbor he received a letter asking him to report to Chicago to take a training course to teach in a Naval Air Force Facility. Within two weeks he was in Chicago. In October 1942 he exchanged his civilian clothes for a uniform but continued in the same job as an Aviation Chief Metalsmith in the Navy rather than as a civilian instructor. He remained at Navy Pier, Chicago, until the spring of 1944 when he was transferred to Hutchinson, Kansas, for six months; he was then sent to Wold Chamberlain Field in Minneapolis until the end of the war.
In 1933 Charles met Vera Maurine McCurdy who had joined the teaching staff at Edgeley. They married 10 August 1938 at Fargo, North Dakota, and subsequently resided in Jamestown, North Dakota. After the war, they returned to Fargo where Charles worked for the Veteran's Administration as a training officer. In 1959 he studied guidance and counselling at the University of North Dakota and completed most of the coursework for a Ph.D. transferring in February 1961 to Sioux Falls, South Dakota, where he was a counselling psychologist with the Veteran's Administration until his death. He died 10 October 1971 at his home in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, from a heart attack.
Charles was a member of Asbury Methodist Church, Sioux Falls, and had previously been a member of the First Methodist Church in Fargo. While living in Fargo he had also been a member of the Masons and the Elks.
Sometime during the depression years, Charles had applied for Civil Service work; within three weeks of the bombing of Pearl Harbor he received a letter asking him to report to Chicago to take a training course to teach in a Naval Air Force Facility. Within two weeks he was in Chicago. In October 1942 he exchanged his civilian clothes for a uniform but continued in the same job as an Aviation Chief Metalsmith in the Navy rather than as a civilian instructor. He remained at Navy Pier, Chicago, until the spring of 1944 when he was transferred to Hutchinson, Kansas, for six months; he was then sent to Wold Chamberlain Field in Minneapolis until the end of the war.
In 1933 Charles met Vera Maurine McCurdy who had joined the teaching staff at Edgeley. They married 10 August 1938 at Fargo, North Dakota, and subsequently resided in Jamestown, North Dakota. After the war, they returned to Fargo where Charles worked for the Veteran's Administration as a training officer. In 1959 he studied guidance and counselling at the University of North Dakota and completed most of the coursework for a Ph.D. transferring in February 1961 to Sioux Falls, South Dakota, where he was a counselling psychologist with the Veteran's Administration until his death. He died 10 October 1971 at his home in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, from a heart attack.
Charles was a member of Asbury Methodist Church, Sioux Falls, and had previously been a member of the First Methodist Church in Fargo. While living in Fargo he had also been a member of the Masons and the Elks.
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