Biographical Sketch of Thomas J. Montgomerie, Wright County, Missouri

>From "History of Laclede, Camden, Dallas, Webster, Wright, Texas, 
Pulaski, Phelps and Dent Counties, Missouri" The Goodspeed Publishing
Company, 1889.
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Prof. Thomas J. Montgomerie.  Prominent among the enterprising men and
successful educators of South Central Missouri stands the name of Prof.
Thomas Montgomerie, principal of Hartville Public Schools.  He was born
in Wright County, Mo., August 19, 1841, and is the son of Jefferson and
Nancy E. (Anderson) Montgomerie.  The father was born in North Carolina
June 9, 1800, but grew to maturity it Tennessee.  At the age of twenty-
five he came to Missouri, and in 1828 married to Miss Nancy Anderson. 
He was an early pioneer of what is now Wright County, and Montgomerie
Township bears his name.  He died in Wright County.  His wife was also
a native of North Carolina, and her people moved to Tennessee when she
was a child, and from that state to Missouri, when she was fifteen 
years of age.  By her marriage to Mr. Montgomerie she became the mother
of nine children.  The paternal grandfather of our subject, John Mont-
gomerie, was a native of Ireland, and after immigrating to America
located in North Carolina.  The paternal grandmother was a Moore, and
died in Tennessee at the age of one hundred and four years.  Prof.
Thomas Montgomerie was the sixth child in order of birth born to his
parents.  He grew to manhood in Wright County, and supplemented his 
common school education with a course in Mountain Grove Academy, under
Prof. Phillips.  Consistent with his tastes, he entered the profession
of teaching at Springdale Academy, Mo., Rolla High School, Richland
Institute, Pulaski County and Lebanon Public Schools, these being some
of the places in which he has officiated as an educator.  After coming
to Wright County, although he is a Democrat in his political views, and
the county vastly Republican, so strong a hold had he gained upon the
affections of the citizens of Wright County that he was elected circuit
clerk in 1878 and county clerk at the expiration of this term (1882).
He leaves behind him the neatest county record in sixty-nine counties
of the Mississippi Valley, besides records in several Western States,
and in Chicago and other cities, which are acknowledged by all to be
the neatest records ever seen.  He was married in 1866 to Miss Eliza-
beth Bradford, and afterward, in 1878, to Mrs. Mott.  Prof. Montgomerie
has attained a high reputation in Southern Missouri as an educator, is
a proficient mathematician, and a man of culture and high literary
attainments.  He is now engaged in writing a work, entitled "Logic of
Mathematics," which will soon be given to the public.

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