Talk:Montgomery C. Meigs Jr.

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I have attempted to make the entry more encyclopedic and less conversational. "Major" Meigs was an important figure along the Mississippi river before the creation of the big dam at Keokuk, with assorted inventions to his name, and his career sets him quite apart from his distinguished father and his remarkable daughter. Chotii (talk) 03:35, 11 February 2008 (UTC)

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Middle name

I question whether Montgomery Meigs (d. 1931) was Montgomery C. Meigs Jr. I can't find any indication that he ever used a middle name or middle initial. It never appears in US Census entries from 1870 to 1930, or on his death certificate, or on his Sons of the American Revolution Application, or in contemporary newspaper articles, or in Keokuk city directories.

Find A Grave and a couple of family trees on Ancestry.com give his middle name as "Milton", but I can't find a single reference for that, either.

Unless someone can find a verifiable reference, I'd propose renaming this article to Montgomery Meigs, or Major Montgomery Meigs -- the second one is how he was referred to most often in contemporary newspaper articles.

Billmckern (talk) 11:12, 8 October 2017 (UTC)