Roy Montgomery is one of the foremost cattle and horse raisers of Campbell county and is also proprietor of the Gillette Hotel in the city of Gillette. In fact he has been one of the dominant factors in the upbuilding of the city and of his further success, viewed in the light of his past performances, there can be no reasonable doubt.
    He was born in Schuyler county, Illinois, on the 14^th of September, 1875, and after mastering the lessons taught in the graded and high schools of Daviess county, Missouri, he took up the study of law and was admitted to practice at the state bar of Kansas. He never entered upon the active work of the profession. however, but his knowledge of law has been of immense value to him in the conduct of his business affairs in subsequent years. He then came to Wyoming, establishing his home at Sundance, and for ten years he rode the range. During this time he was getting together a small bunch of cattle of his own and then he took up his abode in Gillette and has since been closely and prominently identified with the business interests and with the upbuilding of this section of the state. During the period of his residence in Gillette he has conducted a hotel and has also continued in active connection with cattle raising. For some time he conducted the Montgomery Hotel, one of the best furnished hotels in the state, having charge thereof for five years. He sold out that business in 1915 and for two years was not associated with hotel management but in 1917 opened the Gillette Hotel, which he is now successfully conducting. He is one of the prominent cattle men of Campbell county, running from twenty-five hundred to three thousand head, his interests in this connection being perhaps surpassed by only one other in the county. He also has extensive investments in oil lands and from his oil properties is deriving a gratifying income. He likewise gives attention to horses and has six or seven hundred head upon his range. His business interests are wisely and carefully managed, his investments judiciously made and his enterprise and determination have brought to him a measure of success that is most substantial.
    In 1903 Mr. Montgomery was united in marriage to Miss Anna Warkow, of Lincoln, Nebraska. He is a democrat in his political views and for years was a prominent factor in the councils of the party, his opinions carrying weight among party leaders. He served for two terms as mayor of Gillette but has not been active as a seeker after office, preferring to concentrate his efforts and attention upon his business affairs, which have grown to large proportions and which place him among the representative and prominent men of the state, contributing much to the material development of Campbell county and of Wyoming.