page_title: Montgomery Bell
hierarchical_section_title: Montgomery Bell
caption_attribution_description: English: Montgomery Bell portrait circa 1840-1850
context_page_description: Montgomery Bell was a manufacturing entrepreneur who was crucial to the economic development of early Middle Tennessee. He was known as the "Iron Master of the Harpeth" and the "Iron Master of Middle Tennessee". Today he is remembered mostly for founding Montgomery Bell Academy, one of the largest private non-sectarian all-boys high schools in the United States.
context_section_description: Montgomery Bell (January 3, 1769, Chester County, Pennsylvania – April 1, 1855, Dickson County, Tennessee) was a manufacturing entrepreneur who was crucial to the economic development of early Middle Tennessee.  He was known as the "Iron Master of the Harpeth" and the "Iron Master of Middle Tennessee".  Today he is remembered mostly for founding Montgomery Bell Academy, one of the largest private non-sectarian all-boys high schools in the United States.
caption: Bell circa 1840
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