Background
Montgomery, Samuel Thomas was born on November 6, 1860 in in Missouri. Son of George Washington (Doctor of Divinity) and Sarah Ann (Rankin) M.
Montgomery, Samuel Thomas was born on November 6, 1860 in in Missouri. Son of George Washington (Doctor of Divinity) and Sarah Ann (Rankin) M.
Preparatory education, Lees Academy, Loxa, Illinois. Student Waynesburg (Pennsylvania) College, 1887-1890. Bachelor of Sacred Theology, Western Theological Seminary, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 1896.
Church, 1883, ordained to ministry, 1889. Home missionary, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia, since 1891. Successively pastor First Cumberland Presbyterian Church, Pittsburgh, First Church, Cameron, West Virginia, Upper Buffalo Presbyterian Church of Pennsylvania until 1903, Third Presbyterian Church, Los Angeles, 1903-1907.
First Presbyterian Church, Alhambra, California, 1908-1912.
Superintendent Anti-Saloon League for Southern California, 1913-1933. Executive secretary Board of Strategy for Southern California (20 Dry Groups), 1932 campaign.
Police commissioner, Los Angeles, 1927. Director Anti-Saloon League of America, since 1916.
Home: Eagle Rock, California.
Married Le Nettie Algelena Gowdy, July 5, 1888. Children: G. Millage, Walter B., Donnell G., Dorothy L. (Mistress Harry T. Richardson).