Background
Clemens, William Montgomery was born on January 16, 1860 in Paris, Ohio, United States. Son of John (Cameron) and Sarah Elizabeth (Flickinger) C.
Clemens, William Montgomery was born on January 16, 1860 in Paris, Ohio, United States. Son of John (Cameron) and Sarah Elizabeth (Flickinger) C.
Educated Akron (O.) High school and Buchtel College.
On staff Pittsburgh Leader, 1879, Pittsburgh Dispatch, 1880, Cleveland Plain Dealer, 1882, Los Angeles Tribune, 1889, San Francisco Chronicle, 1890-1894. Criminologist New York World, 1907-1908. Revision editor Ridpath’s Library Universal Literature, 1905.
Editorial staff Encyclopedia Americana, 1903-1904.
Founder Literary Life, Chicago, 1884, and Genealogy Magazine, New York, 1912. Author: Life of Mark Twain, 1891.
Life of Theodore Roosevelt, 1898. Life of Admiral Dewey, 1898.
The Clemens Chronology, 1913.
Ancestry of Mary Baker Eddy, 1924. American Marriage Records Before 1699, 1926. North and South Carolina Marriage Records from Colonial Days to the Civil War, 1927.
Historian and genealogist Clemens, Cameron and Montgomery families.
Editor and founder of the Biblio Magazine, 1921. Home: Somerset, Bermuda.
Married Rosa A. Garfield, August 11, 1881 (died 1886). Married second, Kate Fowler Lott, June 28, 1887 (died 1900). Children: Rhea, Nina (deceased).