Biographical Sketch of William Jones Rountree, Greene County, Missouri,
Springfield

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

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This gentleman is the son of Almus L. and Delina (Mitchel) Rountree, 
and was born October 17th, 1847, on the farm now owned by Z. M. Roun-
tree, near Springfield, Missouri.  He was reared by his grandfather
upon the farm, and was educated at the public school of Springfield.
At the age of seventeen he accepted a clerkship in the store of Massey,
McAdams & Co., of Springfield, where he remained until March, 1865, 
when he enlisted in Company F, 14th Missouri Volunteers, U. S. A.  He
was mustered out at Leavenworth, Kansas, the same year, and returned to
Springfield, where he attended school until 1867.  He then engaged with
Massey, McAdams & Co., and sold goods for them for eighteen months.  In
the fall of 1869 he went to California, and returned in 1870 and took a
position as clerk in the St. Louis and San Francisco freight and ticket
office, where he continued until 1873.  In the spring of 1874 he went
to Texas, and was chief clerk on the Houston and Texas railroad.  He 
was next appointed agent at Calveras, Texas, where he remained until
1876.  He returned to Springfield in the fall of that year, but soon
afterwards went to Joplin, Missouri, where he sold groceries for nine
months, when he returned to this city and took the position of conduc-
tor on the popular Gulf railroad.  Mr. Rountree is a member of the 
I. O. O. F., K. T and Brotherhood of Railway Conductors.  He was marr-
ied on September 15th, 1876 to Miss Fannie E. Massey.  They have three
children, viz.: Frank M., John F. and Etta.  The Rountrees are some of
Greene's earliest and best settlers.

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