New-York daily tribune., 1854-05-16
DEATH OF THE POET, JAS MOYTG OKERY.

james Montgomery. the poet breat'ed his last on sun
day afternoon April 30, at his residence the Mount she
field aged - He presided at the weekly board OF the
ip6msrv as late as Friday and walked home more than
nile aiterward. TIE London Tires gives a bret sum-
mary Of his biography as follows
James Montgomery was born as long ago As S.yenoer
4 l77l al Irvine in Ayrshire. His father was f,ravian
missionary who leaving his in Yorkshire 70 be eiG-
Gated went 70 the West Indies where he AMI he p0e
mother both died When only twelve years old the bent
of the bov mind shown by the production Of various
small poems. Thee indications could not save HIM AZ hr
from the fate of the poor and he sent 70 earn ms bread
a. assistant in general shop lie ihrs'ed i9r o'her oc' l.
patous and day set of with 8 IN Ms l'SAes %
walk 10 LONDON 20 seek fame and fortune In NJ hr''
effort he broke down ana for while gave up ms plan 10
take service III another situation Only for time now
r was be content and second effort 10 reach the me-
tropos was successful far as bringing him 10 the spo.
he had longed for but unsuccessful q has maa hop-n"
of finding publisher for volume of his verses But the
bookseller who refused Montgomery poems Scceped h's
labor and made him his -hOpman Fortune. howeveT As
= generally does smiled at last on the Jealous yoI h
In 1922 he gained post IN the establishment o UT VMc
hookseer o Sheffield who had set up newspaper called
YIe SL,flI Register On this paper Montgomery worked
cu awf and when his master had TO fly from rng ana
10 avoid Imprisonment for printing articles too hoera o
the then de- poc Government of England the young o'
becse he editor and publisher Ot the paper, the name o
which lac changed 70 Sh.Bcf i7s. In the columns u
this print he adyoC ated political and religious freedom ana
such conduct secured for him the attentions OF the AZ
tornev-G General by whom he was prosecuted hnel ana
mpoued. in the FIRST instance ior reprniug song com
m.moratirg The Fall OF the Basle III the second case
for Ar account he gave of riot in Sheffield. Confinement
could not crush his love ofPoca justice and onhs cohi
release he advocating the doctrines oi freedom Is
befe in his paper and in his books. In the Lengthy
p,d, between those times and the present the beliefs
which James Montgomery early pioneeredm England have
obtained general recognition and. as men became moTe
and more liberal our poet gained more and more esteem
He contributed magazines, and, despite adverse crt-
cism i'll the LdRbprgh Rerleg, established ms rshl 70
rank "a roe,. In l;97 he published Prison Amuse-
meuts in l-O5, the Ocean; in -0', the % anisrer
in switzerland: in 1902 The West Indies; and IN
l.l2 The World before the Flood. by these weAS Io
b,air,d tho chief reputation lie has enjoyed. In
islg appeared Greenland poem in i've cantos and
in - The Pelican Island and other Poems. In 1871
the whole of his works were issued in volume svo
and of which two editions in circulation ami IN SoJ
"Orginal Hymns tor Public, Private. and Social Devo-
ton This venerable poet enjoyed wel-deseF'ei Ater-
ery pension of / 80 a-year