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| Bank | President | Cashier |
| Jonesburg Bank Jonesburg |
T. Purl | Wm. Dyer |
| Montgomery County Bank Montgomery City |
B. R. Hensley |
Samuel Sharp |
| New Florence Bank New Florence |
B. E. Wilson |
A. H. Kallmeyer |
| Bank of Rhineland Rhineland |
Hugo Monnig |
J. J. Merritt |
| Wellsville Bank Wellsville |
J. H. Reed |
S. M. Barker |
From June 30, 1893, to June 30, 1894, Montgomery County had coal mines operating which employed 40 miners in the summer months and 9 other employees in the summer. No employees were reported for the winter months. 12,175 tons of coal were mined at a value of $1.35 per ton.
Missouri furnished 109,000 soldiers to the Union army and 108,000 to the Confederate army. These figures are unofficial, but are thought to be very near actual numbers.
| MONTGOMERY COUNTY | 1880 | 1890 |
| Bear Creek twp, including Jonesburg village | 2811 | 2643 |
| Jonesburg village | ( 445) | ( 437) |
| Danville twp, including Danville and New Florence villages | 2655 | 2682 |
| Danville village | ( 239) | ( 380) |
| New Florence village | ( 373) | ( 465) |
| Lower Loutre township (Formerly Loutre) | 2775 | 2685 |
| Montgomery twp, including Montgomery City town | 2778 | 3607 |
| Montgomery City town | (1165) | (2199) |
| Prairie twp, including Middletown village | 2774 | 2644 |
| Middletown village | ( 391) | ( 389) |
| Upper Loutre twp, including Wellsville village | 2456 | 2589 |
| Wellsville village | ( 867) | (1138) |
| TOTALS | 16249 | 16850 |
| white males | 8484 | white females | 8366 |
| native born | 15896 | foreign born | 954 |
| native parents | 11941 | foreign parents | 2288 |
| foreign white | 954 | total colored | 1667 |
Montgomery is one of the close counties in the state politically and frequently elect a mixed ticket. If the report given by a citizen of that county is true it is not the fact of a growing independence among voters that makes it so, as much as it is that dollars count in an election in that county. E. Brown of Mineola told a newspaper man that boodlers hold the balance of power in that county. That it is said that there are fifty votes in Montgomery City and some in every precinct in the county that are for sale. The price of votes went up to $20 at Mineola and it is said that $25 was made at Montgomery, according to Mr. Brown, at the last election.
This page is maintained by Joanna Ashmun, Montgomery County coordinator.
Last updated 1 June 2000.
© 1997, 1998, 2000 by Joanna M. Ashmun.