Sedgwick-Harvey County KS Archives Biographies.....Armour, J. A. 1873 - 
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Author: O. H. Bentley

   J. A. Armour, of Bentley, Kan., is a native of the Hoosier state, where he
was born in Vermillion county on January 13, 1868. His parents were James and
Jane (Stewart) Armour, the father being a native of Scotland, born in Girvan,
July 11, 1830, and his mother, a native of Ireland, being born in Grayabby,
November 12, 1830.

   The mother's father, John Stewart, was the first white man to die in
Ninnescah township, Sedgwick county, Kansas, who died in 1872, and her mother
dying in the same township in 1901 at the age of 97 years. The father and mother
of J. A. Armour are both living, at the age of eighty years. They had a family
of eight children, all of whom are living: John, Jane; Susan, Joseph, Eobert,
Samuel, James A. and Margaret. John is living in Harvey county, Kan., and has
two children, J. C. Armour and Mrs. Mable Murdock, both of Wichita, Kan. Jane is
married to Samuel Irons, and has one adopted daughter. Susan is married to A.
Sautter, of Wichita, and has a family of two children: L. J. Sautter, of
Clearwater, Kan., and Mrs. Dr. L. P. Warren, of Wichita. Joseph lives in
Clearwater, Kan., and has a family of three daughters. Robert lives at Galena,
Okla., and has a family of one son and four daughters. Robert is county
commissioner of Woods county, Oklahoma. Samuel lives at Sedgwick, Kan., having a
family of eight children. Margaret is married to F. E. Cutting, of Clearwater,
Kan., and has a family of three sons and one daughter.

   J. A. Armour's early education was obtained in the district schools of Harvey
county, Kan., and later at the Commercial College of Wichita. He remained under
the paternal roof until twenty-nine years old, when he crossed the line into
Sedgwick county, locating on a farm in Section 5, Eagle township, where he
remained until January 29, 1908, when he moved to Bentley, Kan. He engaged in
the grain business in January, 1903, in Bentley. Kan., and operates one of the
largest elevators in that part of the country at the present time. Mr. Armour is
a member of the Masonic Order, the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, the
Rebeccas and the Modern Woodmen of America. He was married on June 19, 1895, at
Sedgwick, Kan., to Miss Sophia K. Redinger, a daughter of John and Margaret
Redinger, of Halstead, Kan. Of this union have been born four children, viz.:
Alexander R., born September 10, 1897. Mildred Esther, born February 16, 1904.
Gernaine Margaret, born January 5, 1907, and Alline Josephine, born April 8, 1910.

   Mrs. Armour was educated in the district schools of Harvey county, Kansas.
Mr. Armour has held minor offices as follows: Trustee of Eagle township, four
years, holding that office at the present time, 1910; served a term as clerk of
the township and on the school board of Sedgwick county for two years. In
politics Mr. Armour is a Republican and is active in the interests of his party.

   J. A. Armour is one of the old settlers of Kansas, having moved with his
parents from Indiana in 1872, arriving in Harvey county March 13, 1872. He comes
of a long-lived family, as all of his relatives on both father and mother's side
lived to an old age. His father and mother are both over eighty years old. They
have eight children, twenty-eight grandchildren and four great-grandchildren,
and have never had a death in the family.



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History of Wichita and Sedgwick County: past and present, including an account
of the cities, towns and villages of the county

Editor in chief: O. H. Bentley
Chicago: C.F. Cooper & Co. (1910)

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