Benefactor
Zach Montgomery was benefactor of Father Lawrence Serda, the founding pastor of Sacred Heart Parish in Oakland. Father Serda said Mass from January 16, to December 10, 1876, in the parlor of the Montgomery home at the Northwest corner of Telegraph Avenue and 41st Street. The Montgomery sons were altar boys. Zach Montgomery and J.H. McCourtney donated the land at 40th and Grove Streets where Sacred Heart Church was built in 1876.
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“He who gives himself entirely to his fellow-men appears to them useless and selfish; but he who gives himself partially to them is pronounced a benefactor and philanthropist.”
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