Newspapers/serials

• 1864-1865 The Occidental (San Francisco)
• 1866-1868 Occidental and Vanguard (San Francisco)
• 1881-1884 The Family’s Defender Magazine and Educational Review (1881 - Oakland; 1882-1884 - San Diego)

Books

• Montgomery, Zachariah. The Poison Fountain or Anti-Parental Education, self published, San Francisco, 1879.

• Montgomery, Zachariah. Poison Drops In the Federal Senate, Gibson Bros., Washington D.C., 1886. (republished 1972, 1883; St. Thomas Press).

• Montgomery Creek, Shasta County, California, is named in honor of Zachariah. The town was established in 1877.

• Zach witnessed the Squatter's Riot in Sacramento on August 15, 1850 and served as Charles L. Robinson’s attorney in the case. Robinson later served in the California legislature and as the first Governor of Kansas. [1]

• Montgomery was a staunch and vocal opponent of the Lincoln administration throughout the Civil War, he surrendered his license to practice law in late 1863 in protest to the California Legislature's Test Oath. In 1868, the Test Oath was repealed and Zach resumed his law practice.

• In the summer of 1884 Zach mounted an unsuccessful bid for the office of District Attorney of San Diego County.

• Montgomery served in the precedent-setting court case at the United States Supreme Court: Cunningham v. Neagle, U.S. 1 (1890).

• When the news of President Abraham Lincoln’s death reached San Francisco, April 15, 1865, the offices and printing press for the Occidental were destroyed by an angry mob that targeted newspapers sympathetic to the southern cause.

Marriages

• Baker, Joseph E. History of Alameda County, Calif., vol II, p. 547., 1914.

• Bancroft, Hubert Howe History of the Pacific States 1860-1890, Vol. VII, pgs. 270-271, 312. 1885.

• Bancroft, Hubert Howe The Works of Hubert Howe Bancroft, Vol. 24, pgs. 270, 312.

• Davis, Winfield History of Political Conventions in California: 1849-1892.

• Ellison, William H. A Self Governing Dominion: California, 1849 - 1860, 1950.

• Guinn, J.M., History of the State of California and Biographical Record of the Sacramento Valley, California, also Containing Biographies of Well-Known Citizens of the Part and Present, p. 210, 1907.

• Guinn, J.M., History of the State of California and Biographical Record of Oakland and Environs also Containing Biographies of Well-Known Citizens of the Part and Present, Vol 2, p. 733 — 736, 1907.

• Herringshaw, T. W., Herringshaw's Encyclopedia of American Biography of the Nineteenth Century, p. 668

• Hittell, Theodore Henry History of California, - 1885, (also 1897)

• Shanahan, J.J., F.S.C, Masters Thesis. Thesis on Zachariah Montgomery - Agitator for individual and States Rights, U.C. Berkeley, 1955.