DR. ALEXANDER MONTAGUE 

Dr. Alexander Montague, one of the eminent practicing physicians of this State, and a resident of Galt, was born in Wake County, near Raleigh, North Carolina, September 16, 1845, son of Dr. W. H. Montague, a prominent physician. In the family were six sons and six daughters, one of whom, besides the subject of this sketch, is a physician in Winston, North Carolina. Dr. Montague received his early education at the Wake Forest College, and in 1865 graduated at the State University at Chapel Hill, formerly one of the largest institutions in the South. While pursuing his collegiate course he was gradually drifting into medical studies, and afterward he read in the office of his father two years, and received his diploma in 1868 from the University of the City of New York, after attending the required course of lectures there. Until 1877 he practiced his profession in his native State, and then came to California, locating at Shasta City, where his competency soon became known and he was appointed surgeon to the County Hospital. He remained at that place nine months. In 1878 he came to Galt, where he has since resided and had a large practice, excepting the three years 1885-’88, when he was in New York City, prosecuting special studies. Thus the people of Galt and vicinity have the satisfaction of knowing one physician at least among them who is probably well qualified to treat them as any other general practitioner in the State.