Biography

08/09/1832 - 02/25/1907

MONTGOMERY, William R., a Representative from Mercer County; born, August 9, 1832 in Deer Creek Township, Mercer County, Pa.; merchant and clerk; co-owner, Montgomery & Power, general store; appointed, clerk to the commissioners, Mercer County (1862-1868); proprietor, drug store; elected as a Republican to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives in 1880; not a candidate for reelection to the House (1882); vice president, Mercer County Trust Company (1902); died, February 25, 1907 in Mercer, Mercer County, Pennsylvania; interred, Mercer Citizens Cemetery, Mercer, Mercer County, Pennsylvania.