Background
Montgomery was born on September 11, 1885, in Crawfordsville, Indiana, United States.
Montgomery was born on September 11, 1885, in Crawfordsville, Indiana, United States.
He received his education at Albany Academy in Yale.
He arrived in China in 1907, where he started working as a professor of English literature at St. John's University. Then he became a priest in charge of St. Paul's Church in Kiangwan. He was engaged in the translation of Apostolic Fathers and Apolypha of Old Testament into Chinese.
He was married.