Thomas Armstrong

As printed in 1910

THOMAS ARMSTRONG, JR.

Wayne county, Ohio, is characterized by a full share of the honored pioneer element who have done so much for the development of the county and the state and the establishment of the institutions of higher civilization in this fertile and well-favored section of the old Buckeye commonwealth. The biographical sketches in this work are to a large extent in recognition of those who are pioneers or members of pioneer families, and it is signally fitting that there should be perpetuated records which will defy the ravages of time and betoken to the coming generations the earnest lives and devoted labors of those who have been such noble contributors to the state's prosperity and pride. The subject of this sketch is one of the honored citizens of the county, where he has been for many years successfully engaged in agricultural pursuits and where he has maintained his home from the days of his childhood, representing a period of sixty-five years of consecutive residence in the county.

Tracing the ancestral history of the Armstrong family, it is learned that the subject’s paternal grandfather, Thomas Armstrong, Sr., was born August 22, 1776. in Northumberland county, Pennsylvania, where he was reared to manhood. After his marriage he moved to Columbiana county, Ohio, and lived there until the war of 1812. After the surrender of General Hull at Detroit, the subject volunteered and was commissioned captain and

As printed in History of Wayne County Ohio (1910). See the original pages. Wording is the original; obvious scanning errors have been corrected, and a few may remain.