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Author: Smith & De Land, publishers

  REV. THOMAS ARMSTRONG was born in Wilcox County, Ala., September 16, 1835;
reared on a farm; attended an academy in his early days; received the degree of
A. M. from Centenary College, Louisiana. In early life, he began to teach near
Hamburg, Ala. Was not engaged in the war. In I863, taught with his brother, Rev.
James K. Armstrong, in Marion Female Seminary. In 1864, was elected principal of
Eutaw Male and Female Academy, where he remained till the spring of 1867: then
engaged in farming in the Black Belt of Alabama, between Greensboro and
Demopolis. In 1871, he bought of Foot & Malone, of Mobile, a half interest in
the plantations of the late Colonel Barney, of Marengo County, and farmed till
1874, in the summer of which year he was elected president of Mansfield Female
College, which position he resigned in 1880. He then taught in the Alabama
Central Female College, at Tuscaloosa, and in Birmingham, Ala., until 1884, when
he entered the North Alabama Conference as an itinerant Methodist minister. His
first charge was at Tuscumbia, Ala., which he served two years and three months.
At this time, Rev. Mr. Law, then in charge of the church at Decatur, resigned
his position, and Bishop Wilson, of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South,
appointed Rev. Mr. Armstrong to succeed him. Mr. Armstrong married Miss Mattie
DuBois, of Greensboro, Ala., a daughter of Rev. John DuBois, the inventor of the
DuBois Cotton Gin. He has two children: Marielon and Samuel D. He is a member of
the Masonic fraternity.

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Northern Alabama: Historical and Biographical
Birmingham, Ala.: Smith and De Land
1888

PART IV.
MONOGRAPHS OF THE PRINCIPAL CITIES AND TOWNS IN NORTHERN AND CENTRAL ALABAMA,
TOGETHER WITH BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES OF MANY OF THEIR REPRESENTATIVE PEOPLE.


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