W. L. Montgomery Biography


	This biography appears on pages 1900-1901 in "History of South 
	Dakota" by Doane Robinson, Vol. II (1904) and was scanned, 
	OCRed and edited by Maurice Krueger, mkrueger@iw.net.

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	W. L. MONTGOMERY, cashier of the Bank of Iowa and Dakota, at 
Chamberlain, and a member of the present state senate, is a native of 
the state of Illinois, having been born in Rock Island county. He was 
reared on the home farm and after completing the curriculum of the 
public schools continued his studies in the Geneseo Academy, at 
Geneseo, Illinois. Soon after leaving school he came west to Nebraska, 
where he established himself in the real-estate, loan and live-stock 
business, having his headquarters at Fullerton, Nance county. He 
removed to northwestern Iowa, where he remained about one year, at the 
expiration of which he came to Chamberlain, South Dakota, where he 
engaged in the banking and live-stock business, purchasing an interest 
in the Bank of Iowa and Dakota. Later he and his father purchased the 
interests of all other stockholders in the institution, of which they 
have since maintained control. Mr. Montgomery has ever given an 
unqualified allegiance to the Republican party, and was elected to 
represent his district in the state senate. He is a member of the Free 
and Accepted Masons and of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks.

	Mr. Montgomery was united in marriage to Miss Leone King, of 
Chamberlain, and they have one child.