caption death_date death_place birth_place parents birth_date image article_title name occupation
bell circa 1840-1850 april 1 , 1855 dickson county , tennessee chester county , pennsylvania john bell mary patterson january 3 , 1769 file : montgomery bell portrait circa 1840-1850 . png montgomery bell
 montgomery bell businessman
montgomery bell

montgomery bell -lrb- january 3 , 1769 , chester county , pennsylvania -- april 1 , 1855 , dickson county , tennessee -rrb- 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 the founding of one of the largest non-sectarian all-boys private secondary schools in the united states , which bears his name .
