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**] **] (This county was ''not'' named for Richard Montgomery, but for '''John Montgomery,''' a local settler)
**] (This county was ''not'' named for Richard Montgomery, but for its largest community, the town of Montgomery, and therefore indirectly for '''Andrew Montgomery,''' as stated above)
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Montgomery is, according to placesnamed.com, the name of 86 places in the United States of America of which 18 are Montgomery County. Some of these places were named in honor of the general Richard Montgomery, who died in the American Revolutionary War attempting to capture Quebec, Canada:


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