Jackson County AlArchives Biographies.....Armstrong, James 1855 - ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/al/alfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Joy Fisher http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00001.html#0000031 September 8, 2011, 5:24 pm Source: See below Author: Smith & De Land, publishers JAMES ARMSTRONG, Editor of the Scottsboro Citizen, was born September 7, 1855, at Hillsboro, Lawrence County, this State, and is the son of the late Hon. James Armstrong, who was well known as a lawyer and legislator from Lawrence County, and as one of the Franklin Pierce electors in 1852. The subject of our sketch moved to Scottsboro on the 3d of March, 1869. He attended the common schools of that place, and afterwards the East Tennessee University at Knoxville. Soon after attaining his majority he embarked in the newspaper business, established the Scottsboro Citizen October 5, 1877, and has conducted it ever since with considerable success, giving it high rank among democratic journals of the State. He was married May 18, 1880, to Miss Malie R., daughter of Rev. P. L. Henderson, of Decatur, Ala. They have three living children, Phillip H., Andrew and Harry Cheatham. James, the youngest child, died September 10, 1887, aged three weeks. Mr. Armstrong and wife are members of the Methonist [sic] Episcopal Church, South, and he is a member of the K. of H. Additional Comments: Extracted from: Northern Alabama: Historical and Biographical Birmingham, Ala.: Smith and De Land 1888 PART III. HISTORICAL RESUME OF THE VARIOUS COUNTIES IN THE STATE. CEREAL BELT. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/al/jackson/bios/armstron852gbs.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/alfiles/ File size: 1.9 Kb