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Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in the John J. Montgomery Papers, #3385-z, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Acquisitions Information

Received from Isabel Arnold of De Land, Fla., March 1958.

Location of Originals

Location of originals is unknown.

Additional Descriptive Resources

A copy of the original finding aid for this collection is filed in folder 1.

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Encoded by: Noah Huffman, December 2007

Updated by: Kate Stratton and Jodi Berkowitz, May 2010

This collection was rehoused and a summary created with support from the National Endowment for the Humanities.

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The following terms from Library of Congress Subject Headings suggest topics, persons, geography, etc. interspersed through the entire collection; the terms do not usually represent discrete and easily identifiable portions of the collection--such as folders or items.

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• Aeronautics--Experiments--History--19th century.
• Gliders (Aeronautics)--History.
• Gliding and soaring--Experiments--History.
• Montgomery, John J. (John Joseph), 1858-1911.
• Physicists--California--History--19th century.
• Stockholders--California--History--19th century.

John Joseph Montgomery (1858-1911) was an inventor and physics professor interested in aeronautics from Monterey, Calif. Montgomery was the son of Zach Montgomery of Fruitland farm, near San Diego, Calif. His early aeronautical experiments were in San Diego County; later he taught at Santa Clara College and was head of the physics department while he continued his inventions and experiments. He was killed in a crash during a flight attempt.

See also Quest for Flight: John J. Montgomery and the Dawn of Aviation in the West, Craig S. Harwood and Gary B. Fogel [University of Oklahoma Press, 2012).

The collection includes photocopies of correspondence and other papers relating to the 1880s flying experiments of John Joseph Montgomery. Papers include some of his writings about his flights, and letters to his sister and from Octave Chanute, a Chicago, Ill., engineer, concerning glider experiments. Additional items, 1911-1947, concern the family's attempt to see that Montgomery was given credit for his work.