The Lodge is named after  General Richard Montgomery (1736-1775). Richard Montgomery was an officer in the British army during the French and Indian war, and was a strong supporter of the American colonists within the British Parliament. During the American Revolutionary War, General Montgomery served as a secondranking Brigadier General, leading the Colonial Army into Canada by capturing Montreal. Unfortunately, General Montgomery fell on December 31, 1775, during the offensive to capture Quebec at the side of Colonel Benedict Arnold. General Montgomery left behind a wife, Janet Livingston, daughter of  Robert R. Livingston, Justice of the New York Supreme Court, member of the committee that wrote the Declaration of Independence, Grand Master of the New York Grand Lodge, and the official who administered George Washington's first presidential oath of office, which was, needless to say, performed using the Masonic Holy Bible of the Grand Lodge of New York.