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Title: History of Black Hawk County, Iowa, and its people
Year: 1915 (1910s)
Authors: Hartman, John C., 1861- ed
Subjects: Black Hawk County (Iowa) -- History Black Hawk County (Iowa) -- Biography
Publisher: Chicago : S. J. Clarke publishing company
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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terprise which hashere been established but prouder still of the man whose ability and indomitablespirit has made it possible. ROBERT E. MONTAGUE. The history of a community does not depend so much upon the machinery ofgovernment or even upon the men who fill the public offices as those who controlthe important business enterprises, furnishing a market for labor and producingan output that brings the community into business relations with the outsideworld. In this connection Robert E. Montague is wxll known, being the presidentof the Waterloo Skirt & Garment Company. For nine years he has made hishome in Waterloo and is accounted one of its foremost citizens. He is a nativeson of Illinois, bom in 1875, and came from that state to Waterloo in 1905.When fourteen years of age he became connected with the business in which heis still engaged, having spent nearly a quarter of a century in activity along thisline. The Waterloo Skirt & Garment Company was organized about eleven years
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EOBERT E. MONTAGUE 1 J HISTORY OF BLACK HAWK COUNTY 125 ago. After a few years connection therewith Mr. Montague purchased the in-terest of G. B. McWilliams in the business and succeeded him in the presidency ofthe company, which is incorporated with the following officials: R. E. Montague,president; G. N. See, treasurer; and F. C. Stetzel, secretary. They manufacturea large line of house dresses, petticoats, kimonos and childrens wear, and inaddition to the extensive plant at Waterloo they also have a factory at CedarFalls and at Waverly and keep on an average of two hundred and fifty employes,while upon the road they are represented by eighteen traveling salesmen. Theydo a business that extends from coast to coast and something of the volume oftheir trade is indicated by the fact that they cut up about ten thousand yards ofcloth per day in the manufacture of their output. This is one of the importantproductive enterprises of the city. The business is carefully systematized andmanage

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