Montgomery, Edmund, 1835-1911

Edmund Duncan Montgomery, physician, philosopher, and scientist, was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, on March 18, 1835 and died at Liendo Plantation near Hempstead, Texas on April 17, 1911. He was the son of Isabella Davidson Montgomery and Duncan MacNeill, an eminent Scottish jurist. Raised in Paris, France and Frankfurt, Germany, he entered Heidelberg University in 1852 as a student of medicine, earning his Doctor of Medicine degree from Wϋrzburg in 1858. In 1860 he moved to England, serving as the resident physician at the German Hospital, and at Bermondsey Dispensary. He also served as a demonstrator of morbid anatomy at St. Thomas’s Hospital in London.

In 1863, Montgomery relinquished these positions and moved to the Portuguese archipelago of Madeira after being diagnosed with Tuberculosis. There he married Elisabet Ney. He practiced medicine from 1863 to 1869 in several locations: Madeira, Menton, Rome, and Munich. In 1869 he retired from medical practice. He and Elisabet Ney immigrated to America in 1871.

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