Biographical Sketch of Judge M. J. Rountree, Greene County, Missouri,
Springfield

>From "History of Greene County, Missouri," St. Louis: Western
Historical Company, 1883.

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Judge Rountree is the son of Joseph and Nancy (Nichols) Rountree, and
was born March 24th, 1820, in Maury County, Tennessee.  He received his
early education from his mother, an intelligent, cultivated lady, and
from the common schools of his section.  At the age of twenty he went 
to work upon a farm by the month, working in the summer and going to
school in the winter.  In December, 1829, the parents of our subject
moved to Missouri and settled upon Wilson's Creek, within two miles of
Springfield.  Judge Rountree was married upon the 7th of March, 184-,
to Miss Mary Winton, of Polk County, Missouri.  They have had eight
children, four of whom are now living.  Their first born died in infan-
cy.  Sarah F. died in her nineteenth year, Bentley J. is a traveling
salesman, Joseph W. is in the nursery business with his father, Mary E.
is at home with her parents, Thomas J., is a tobacconist at Carthage.
In 1845 he bought a small farm three and one-half miles southwest of
Springfield, where he lived about six years, when he sold out and
bought a place of two hundred acres southeast of Springfield, where he 
lived until the war closed.  He then sold his farm, and went to Spring-
field temporarily, but soon purchased an eighty acre tract of land east
of the city, and started a nursery in 1867.  In 1870 he traded for the
house where he now lives on East Elm street, which is upon a four acre
lot.  He was a justice of the peace for four years.  In 1872 he was
elected judge of the county court, and held that position six years.
In 1880 he was elected upon the Democratic ticket to the mayoralty of
the city of Springfield.  Judge Rountree is a self-made man, and no man
in this county stands better in the estimation of his fellow citizens
than he.

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