County, California, is named in honor of Montgomery. The town was established in 1877. Publications Newspapers/serials 1864-1865 The Occidental (San Francisco) 1866-1868 Occidental and Vanguard (San Francisco) 1881-1884 The Family's Defender Magazine and Educational Review (1881 - Oakland; 1882-1884 - San Diego) Available online: Family's defender magazine and educational review, Volumes 1-2 (Google Books) Books Montgomery, Zachariah. The Poison Fountain or Anti-Parental Education, self-published, San Francisco, 1879. Montgomery, Zachariah. Poison Drops In the Federal Senate, Gibson Bros., Washington D.C., 1886. (republished 1972, 1883; St. Thomas Press). See also Relatives John J. Montgomery, Aviation pioneer Bishop George Thomas Montgomery Subjects Montgomery wrote about John Swett, a founder of American public education. Other Richard Grant White, critic of public schools who referred to Montgomery's work. Notes References Baker, Joseph E. History of Alameda County, Calif., vol II, p. 547., 1914. Bancroft, Hubert Howe History of the Pacific States 1860-1890, Vol. VII, pgs. 270–271, 312. 1885. Bancroft, Hubert Howe The Works of Hubert Howe Bancroft, Vol. 24, pgs. 270, 312. Davis, Winfield History of Political Conventions in California: 1849-1892. Ellison, William H. A Self Governing Dominion: California, 1849 - 1860, 1950. Guinn, J.M., History of the State of California and Biographical Record of the Sacramento Valley, California, also Containing Biographies of Well-Known Citizens of the Part and Present, p. 210, 1907. Guinn, J.M., History of the State of California and Biographical Record of Oakland and Environs also Containing Biographies of Well-Known Citizens of the Part and Present, Vol 2, p. 733 – 736, 1907. Herringshaw, T. W., Herringshaw's Encyclopedia of American Biography of the Nineteenth Century, p. 668 Hittell, Theodore Henry History of California, - 1885 (also 1897) O'Brien, Michael D. Centennial Souvenir 1876 - 1976 -- The Story of Sacred Heart Church -- Oakland, California, 1976. pgs 5–6. Scanlan, Peter, 1876 - 1926 Golden Jubilee Souvenir -- Sacred Heart Church - Oakland, California, 1926. pgs. 6–8. Shanahan, J.J., F.S.C, Masters Thesis. Thesis on Zachariah Montgomery - Agitator for individual and States Rights, U.C. Berkeley, 1955. External links May 27, 1885 New York Times, MONTGOMERY'S BLUNDER., rebuttal to then Assistant Sec. Att. Gen. to the Dept of the Interior, Z. Montgomery's opinions of Public Education October 17, 1887 New York Times article mentioning Z Montgomery investigating land fraud Biographical annals of the civil government of the United States: FROM ORIGINAL AND OFFICIAL SOURCES. By Charles Lanman, Joseph M. Morrison 1887, pg 349, Entry