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Montgomery was born on August 19, 1843 in Ithaca, New York, United States, the son of the Reverend Anthony and Eleanor (Johnson) Schuyler. He was a descendant of Arent Schuyler, fourth son of Philip Pieterse Schuyler, American founder of the family, who came from Holland in 1650, settling at Beverwyck (Albany).
Montgomery Schuyler entered Hobart College in 1858, but left without graduating.
In 1865 Schuyler went to New York City and was soon a member of the brilliant group of young writers gathered about Manton Marble, then editor of the World. He remained on the staff of the World until 1883 and then went to the New York Times, where he continued until his retirement from active journalism in 1907.
Meanwhile, he had been managing editor of Harper's Weekly (1885 - 87) and reader for Harper & Brothers (1887 - 94). After 1912 he regularly contributed book reviews and articles on literary subjects to the New York Sun. One series of sketches done for the Times, descriptive of an Easterner's impression of the West as seen on the first trip of the "Los Angeles Limited, " was enlarged and published in book form as Westward the Course of Empire (1906).
Schuyler also wrote much for the magazines, largely on literature and architecture. Although not a trained architect, he became, after the death of Russell Sturgis, very popular critic and historian of American architecture. With W. C. Conant, he published The Brooklyn Bridge (1883), some of his architectural essays appeared as American Architecture: Studies (1892), and a slender volume on The Woolworth Building was privately printed in 1913; but most of the material is scattered through the files of periodicals, in particular the Architectural Record, of which he was one of the founders (1891). He threw his influence on the side of the Gothic as against the classic tradition; later, he was interested in the skyscraper as an expression of modern American culture.
In the days when the Century Club was a focal center of social and intellectual life in New York, Schuyler was one of the wittiest conversationalists at the Saturday night reunions, where he counted among his intimate friends Homer Martin, John La Farge, Henry Holt, William C. Brownell, F. Hopkinson Smith, and Austin Flint.
On his retirement from the Times in 1907, he went to live at New Rochelle, where both he and his wife took an active interest in every plan for civic improvement. He died in 1914.
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Quotations: "Modern skyscraper was a legitimate architectural expression of our times. "
Schuyler was a member of the American Institute of Architects, the National Institute of Arts and Letters, and the Century Club.
An omnivorous reader and student, Schuyler was able not only to give his editorial and feature writing both dignity and literary grace, but also to illuminate it with an inexhaustible supply of apt quotation and allusion.
Schuyler had been married, on September 16, 1876, to Katherine Beeckman Livingston, daughter of Robert Dwight and Mary (Armour) Livingston, of New York City, thus becoming allied with two other famous old New York families, the Beeckmans and the Livingstons. His wife was a woman of wit, energy, and talent, who is said to have given up an operatic career to marry him. When she died the shock of the loss seems to have hastened her husband's death. They were survived by two sons; a third son died in infancy.
