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David Henry Montgomery was an American textbook writer.
Background
David Henry Montgomery was born on April 7, 1837, at Syracuse, New York. He was the only child of David and Sarah (Prescott) Montgomery. His father was a law partner of the first mayor of the city. Left an orphan at the age of seven, he lived with relatives until he went West and became a ranchman.
Education
Montgomery was at Brown for three years in the class of 1861 and gained some recognition there as a debater. After completing the course at the Harvard Divinity School (1863), he held Massachusetts pastorates at Leicester and West Bridgewater.
Career
Montgomery was not fitted by temperament to cope with church administration, and in 1880, he went to England. From unsuccessful business experiences there he returned in 1884 in poverty. John J. May of Boston gave him a desk in his office, and in gratitude, Montgomery prepared an elementary history for May's grandchildren. This book, Leading Facts of English History (1886), was designed to illustrate, as he said, the great law of national growth in the light thrown upon it by the foremost English historians. On publication by Ginn & Company, it was immediately popular. A life of Franklin, the autobiography supplemented by the story carried on from 1757 to 1790, followed in 1888. The Leading Facts of French History (1889) was similar in treatment to the English history and was likewise well supplemented with maps, chronological tables, and indexes. It has been said that several thousand copies were read by American soldiers in France during the World War. The Leading Facts of American History was published in 1890, followed in 1892 by The Beginner's American History, of which an edition in Spanish was published in 1901. The Student's American History (1897), enlarged from The Leading Facts of American History was one of the best textbooks of the period and was widely adopted. It contained maps, as well as illustrations of old letters and documents, and an appendix containing the Constitution and Declaration of Independence, useful tables, and a bibliography. His final work was An Elementary American History (1904), designed "to appeal to the eye as well as to the understanding. " Montgomery's works received constant revision. He would spend weeks in the study, the only visible result of which would be a change in a shade of meaning. On one occasion, to insure the destruction of the electrotype plates of a superseded edition, he carried a hatchet to the press and demolished the old plates himself. Over nine million copies of his textbooks have been sold. He also published for school use editions of several literary classics.
As he declined in health, he rarely left his residence at 50 Frost Street, Cambridge, where he had surrounded himself with books, pictures, tapestries, statuary, and maps.
Achievements
Montgomery's "Leading Facts" series, including The Leading Facts of American History, were widely used in schools from the 1890s through the 1920s. Harvard College, the Cambridge Hospital, and the Boston Athenaeum were remembered generously in Montgomery's will. His copyrights went by gift to the College.
Montgomery was fond of travel and spent some fifteen years in England, often quoting Dr. Johnson's words: "He who gets tired of London gets tired of life. "
Connections
Montgomery married Delia A. Bowman, daughter of Francis Bowman, of Cambridge, on December 10, 1867, a woman of culture and some literary ability. She died in 1908, leaving a son.