Edgar Co. Il Biographies - E. J. Armentrout

Surname: Armentrout

Submitter: Tracy Smith
EMAIL: tjpblshr@phnx.uswest.net
DATE: Jun 29 2000


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E. J. ARMENTROUT, groceries, provisions and queensware, Paris; was
born in Terre Haute, Ind., March 30, 1848; he came to Edgar Co. with his
parents in 1854; during his early life, he received a good common-school
education; his father was engaged in the grocery business for a number of
years in Sanford, this county; he came to Paris in 1866, and opened a
grocery house, in which business he continued until his death, which was
July 28, 1876; after which E. J. took charge of the business, and is
building up a good trade.