Frederick James "Monte" Monteagle (12 March 1909 – 30 November 1994) was a newspaper reporter and editor for the Oakland Tribune from 1933 to 1961.1 He left to work as a Naval intelligence civilian agent during World War II. After leaving the Tribune, he did public relations work for a bank, and then for the Oakland Museum of California. From 1968 to 1978 he was a public information officer for the East Bay Regional Park District. He wrote a series of historical articles under the name "Monte Monteagle" for the Martinez News-Gazette and other local newspapers in the 1970s. He lived for thirty years in Piedmont, on Oakmont Avenue.
One of his historical accounts is a thirty-part telling of the lumbering of the redwoods between Oakland and Moraga, told in the Martinez News-Gazette in the early part of 1977.2
Links and References
- Former Tribune reporter and editor dies Oakland Tribune December 4, 1994
- A Great Forest The Fastest Slow Guy You Know blog
