New York, the metropolis : its noted business and professional men. . ep by step, without a single instanceof solicitation on his part. After having served five yearsin the Troy Bank, he came to this city and entered theMerchants Exchange Bank as assistant teller in 1850. He »was after some time promoted to the position of teller, andin 1865 transferred his services to the Seventh Ward Bankas cashier, becoming President in 1872. In 1884 he wascalled to and elected President of the Second NationalBank, which during his management has entered into an eraof great prosperity. During Mr. Montagues
New York, the metropolis : its noted business and professional men. . ep by step, without a single instanceof solicitation on his part. After having served five yearsin the Troy Bank, he came to this city and entered theMerchants Exchange Bank as assistant teller in 1850. He »was after some time promoted to the position of teller, andin 1865 transferred his services to the Seventh Ward Bankas cashier, becoming President in 1872. In 1884 he wascalled to and elected President of the Second NationalBank, which during his management has entered into an eraof great prosperity. During Mr. Montagues career he hasbeen thrown into business relations with many men who likehimself have climbed to the top of the ladder, and herecalls with pride the fact that in the beginning of his NewYork business life, away back in 1853-4, he stood side byside with Messrs. Fred. Tappen and George G. Williams assettling clerk in the New York Clearing House. Mr. Mon-tague married in his native city, in 1855, Susan Tomlinson,connected with an old Connecticut family, daughter of the. GEORGE MONTAGUE. Norman origin, the first American ancestor immigrating toBoston, Mass., and sul)se<iuently settling in Hadley in thatState, early in the seventeenth century. His maternalgrandfather, Major Joseph Lord, rendered valiant serviceto the American cause in the war of 1802. Mr. Montagues father, who was in good circumstances,decided on giving his son a university course with a viewto his entering one of the professions, but the lad himselffrom a very early age manifesting a strong inclinationtoward a business career, he was allowed to have his way,and so afier a common school training, sui)plemented lateron by a few years in higher schools, he procured em|)loy-mcnt in the Troy City Bank, at the age of fifteen, havingfor a year or so in the interval served as a clerk in a here two things may be remarked of Mr. Montague :the first, that from the very outset of iiis career he haspreserved a i)erf
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