A history of California and an extended history of its southern coast counties, also containing biographies of well-known citizens of the past and present . orrisville College, in Polk county,and Pritchetts Institute, making a special studyof the natural sciences. Subsequently, aftertaking a post-graduate course in astronomy andthe higher mathematics, he entered upon a pro-fessional career, teaching two years in the pub-lic schools of Greene county, six years in Neosho,and two years in Stockton, Mo. Leaving hisnative .state in i88q. he located near , on December 6, and immediately
A history of California and an extended history of its southern coast counties, also containing biographies of well-known citizens of the past and present . orrisville College, in Polk county,and Pritchetts Institute, making a special studyof the natural sciences. Subsequently, aftertaking a post-graduate course in astronomy andthe higher mathematics, he entered upon a pro-fessional career, teaching two years in the pub-lic schools of Greene county, six years in Neosho,and two years in Stockton, Mo. Leaving hisnative .state in i88q. he located near , on December 6, and immediately embarkedin agricultural pursuits, for two years beingemployed in bean raising and dairying. Movingto Simi in 1891, he bought eighty acres of land,and has since continued his free and indepen-dent occupation, carrying on general farmingscientifically and successfully. In addition tomanaging his own rancli for thirteen years heleased from Senator Bard thirteen hundred acresof land which he devoted to grain-raising, be-sides which he devoted other land to the raisingand breeding of stock, a line of industry inwhich he became especially noted. In 1894 he. cJ-c>^ t^uayyi. jKyoaJicJo HISTORICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 929 established himself as a general merchant, car-rying on a large variety store as well as hisranch, and in mercantile pursuits and agricult-ural labors has been equally succc-->fnl. lie hasacquired some means and distinctidii, and is aleading and influential citizen. I )n 1 Jeccniljcr i,1904, he opened his present store in Simi, andthe management of this in connection with thecare of his two hundred and twenty-five acresof grain land, \ineyard and orchard, keeps himbusily (_iii]i1h\\(1 He has likewise other prop-erty 111 \aluc, owning a nice residence in LosAngeles, on Jefferson street. June 12, 1883. Mr. ^Montgomery married Lo-rena V. Lloyd, a native of Nebraska City, Neb.,and of their union six children have been born,the eldest of win mi died in childhood,
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