Eleanor Gilbert Montgomery, 1896-

Eleanor Gilbert Montgomery was born in Bloomfield, New Jersey in 1896, the daughter of Carrie Cooper and Seymour Parker Gilbert. She was graduated from Bloomfield High School and attended Jackson College, Tufts University, for two years, 1914-1916, and then, at the insistence of her father, transferred to Radcliffe, graduating with the class of 1918.

EGM taught school in New Rochelle, N. Y., was a bank analyst for one year, and then married Spencer Bishop Montgomery in 1923, a graduate of Harvard Law School, class of 1916. They had three daughters and one son. She was a volunteer in scouting and in hospital work, and a member of Trinity Church, Copley Square. Her hobbies included drawing, tray painting, wood carving, and crewel embroidery.

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