Biographies
Source:
Biographical History of Northeastern Ohio
Embracing the Counties of
Ashtabula, Trumbull and Mahoning
Containing Portraits of all the Presidents of the United States, with a
Biography of each,
together with Portraits and Biographies of Joshua R. Giddings, Benjamin
F. Wade,
and a large number of the Early Settlers and
Representative Families of to-day.
"Biography is the only true history." - Emerson
CHICAGO:
THE LEWIS PUBLISHING COMPANY.
1893
Transcribed by Sharon Wick
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HON.
ROBERT MORRIS MONTGOMERY,
one of the oldest and most esteemed citizens of Youngstown, was born
at Warren, Ohio, Oct. 20, 1815. His father, Robert
Montgomery, a native of Pennsylvania, was a son of William
Montgomery of Scotch-Irish lineage. The latter lived for
many years in Chester county, Pennsylvania, took an active part in
the American Revolution, and served as Surveyor General for the
State of Pennsylvania. Robert Montgomery, his son, was
reared in that State, and when a young man came to Ohio. He
located at that part of Poland now known as Struthers,
Mahoning (then Trumbull) county, where, in 1805, he built an iron
furnace and operated the same until about 1812. He afterward
followed farming, in which his interests grew large and important.
Mr. Montgomery died in Pennsylvania in 1859. He was
twice married, and by his first wife there was but one child, a
daughter. He married for a second wife Mrs. Louise Maria
(Morris) Edwards, widow of Colonel John Stark Edwards
To this union were born two daughters and one son; one daughter and
the son still survive.
Robert M. Montgomery, the subject of this
memoir, removed with his parents when a child to a farm just east of
Youngstown, Ohio, where he was inured to farm labor, and was given a
fair education. He has always devoted his attention to the
vocation of farming, in which he has been very successful. As
a wool-grower he has also met with good success, was instrumental in
promulgating the measures providing for the wool tariff of 1867, and
for years no man has been better informed on the subject of wool and
wool-growing. In an early day Mr. Montgomery took an
active part in politics, having cast his first presidential vote for
Andrew Jackson, and was a bold and aggressive anti-slavery
man. In 1862-'63 he served in the Lower House of the
Legislature, and in 1867 visited Washington, District of Columbia,
where he was instrumental in securing the placing of a tariff on
wool.
Mr. Montgomery was married at the age of
twenty-two years, to Miss Nancy Higgins Wolcott, a
native of Trumbull county, Ohio. Her father, Lewis Wolcott,
was born in Connecticut, of Scotch Decent. He came to Trumbull
county, Ohio, in 1808. Our subject and wife have two children:
Lewis Wolcott, a farmer of Youngstown; and Mary Correy,
wife of T. S. McKinley, also a resident of this city.
Mr. and Mrs. Montgomery have been active members of the
Presbyterian Church for a number of years.
Source: Biographical
History of Northeastern Ohio Embracing the Counties of Ashtabula,
Trumbull and Mahoning - Publ. Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Company,
1893 - Page 539 |
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