Montgomery County PA Archives Biographies.....Christman, Montgomery September 5, 1847 - 
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Source: Biographical Annals of Montgomery County Pennsylvania, T. S. Benham & Company and the Lewis Publishing Company, 1904
Author: Ellwood Roberts, Editor

MONTGOMERY CHRISTMAN, justice of the peace and dealer in 
coal, feed and lumber at Sanatoga Station, was born on a 
farm in Limerick township, Montgomery county, September 5, 
1847. He is the son of Jacob H. and Catharine (Zollar) 
Christman, also natives of Montgomery county, Pennsylvania. 
Montgomery Christman was one of four children, two of whom 
are now living: Montgomery C., and Sarah, wife of John Fry, 
of Limerick township.

Jacob H. Christman (father) was a farmer and a dealer in 
cattle. During the latter years of his life, however, he 
devoted himself exclusively to farming. He died in Limerick 
township, in the first house on the pike in the western part 
of Limerick, on December 20, 1879, at the age of sixty-two 
years and ten months. His wife is still living at the age of 
seventy-nine years. They were members of the Reformed 
church, In politics he was a Democrat. He belonged to the 
state militia.

Daniel Christman (grandfather) was a farmer in Limerick 
township. He built the first house below Crooked Hill, now 
Sanatoga. He died at the age of sixty-two. His wife was 
Sarah Hahn, who died at the age of seventy-five. They had 
five children, one son and four daughters, of whom is still 
living Mrs. William H. Smith, of Pottstown, now eighty-two 
years old. The maternal grandfather of Montgomery Christman 
was an early settler in New Hanover township, and was a 
farmer. They had nine children, all of whom lived to an old 
age.

Montgomery Christman lived in Montgomery county, 
Pennsylvania, until he was eighteen years of age.  December 
27, 1869, Montgomery Christman married Miss Mary P. Mottin, 
of St. Louis county, Missouri, daughter of Augustus Mottin. 
They had two children- William Daniel, who now resides in 
St. Louis, Missouri, where he is engaged in business, and 
one who died in infancy. Mrs. Christman died July 16, 1875, 
at the age of twenty-two years.

In May, 1888, Montgomery Christman married Miss Laura T. 
Miller, daughter of Joseph T. and Elizabeth (Linderman) 
Miller, of Lower Pottsgrove, Pennsylvania. They had one 
child who died in infancy. Mrs. Christman is a member of the 
Lutheran church.

Politically Mr. Christman is a Democrat. He is serving his 
fourth term as justice of the peace of Lower Pottsgrove 
township, Montgomery county, and he held the position for 
one term in St. Louis county, Missouri. His home property 
consists of seven acres highly cultivated, and seventeen 
acres along the pike. He owns a farm of sixty acres in St. 
Louis county, Missouri.

Mrs. Christman's parents were early settlers in Montgomery 
county, and both are still living in Lower Pottsgrove 
township. They had six children, four now living, as 
follows: Warren T. Miller; Ira T. Miller, of Philadelphia; 
Mary A. Boyer, of Pottstown; and Mrs. Laura Christman.


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