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March 21, 2008
A new park and public art recognizes aviation pioneer
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By Bill Highlander
Editor
Vice mayor Dave Cortese recalled as a boy growing up in Evergreen that his friends would say “We’ll meet at the monument.”
The monument at the corner of Yerba Buena and San Felipe Road was a stone block inscribed with words about John J Montgomery. The boys probably didn’t pay much attention to who Montgomery was. But to aviation historians, Montgomery was the real father of modern aviation and much of his achievements were made in Evergreen.
The old monument, missing for a while, is now back and joined by an impressive display of public art that could be become an icon of the inventive and innovative spirit of the Santa Clara valley. People will view the Read more...
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| John Joseph Montgomery: Aviation pioneer
By Sharon Ann Breden, CSJ
Special to the Times
It was just a simple math problem: curiosity plus a boy plus innate intelligence, and the sum was the invention of the flying machine.
John Joseph Montgomery, born in 1858 in Yuba City, California, came from a family that was strong, stubborn and one that valued education. His father, Zachary, was a lawyer and during Grover Cleveland’s administration, was an Assistant Attorney General in Washington, D.C.
John’s mother, Ellen Evoy, who was the daughter of the famous Temescal (Oakland) pioneer, Read
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