Delaware County OhArchives Biographies.....Armstrong, George May 26, 1843 - January 29, 1886
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Source: 20th Century History of Delaware County, Ohio, and Representative Citizens, Edited and compiled by James R. Lytle, Delaware, Ohio, Biographical Publishing Co., Chicago, 1908, pgs. 738
Author: James  R. Lytle

Biography of George Armstrong – Delaware County, OH
(20th Century History of Delaware County, Ohio, and Representative Citizens, 
Edited and compiled by James R. Lytle, Delaware, Ohio, Biographical Publishing 
Co., Chicago, 1908, pgs. 738.)

	George Armstrong, who was born at Sunbury, Ohio, Mary 26, 1843, died 
at Ellsworth, Kansas, January 29, 1886.

	The late George Armstrong was educated in the Sunbury schools and 
Delaware University.  On April 16, 1861, he enlisted for service in the Civil 
War, entering Company C, Fourth Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry.  This 
regiment was connected with the Army of the Cumberland, and Mr. Armstrong 
served as a faithful soldier, being promoted from the ranks to be corporal of 
his company, until he was honorably discharged, in August, 1865.  After the 
organization of the Grand Army of the Republic, he became identified with it.  
He was a member of the Baptist Church and served on its Board of Deacons.  In 
politics he was a Republican.  He belonged to the Masonic fraternity.

	The parents of the late George Armstrong were Charles and Elizabeth 
(Slocum) Armstrong.  They were born in Pennsylvania and came to Delaware 
County, Ohio, and Charles Armstrong bought a farm near Sunbury, on which he 
died in 1870.  His wife died in 1897, at the home of her granddaughter, Mrs. 
Kimball Sedgwick, in Sunbury.  For two terms he served as treasurer of 
Delaware County.  Of his 11 children, his son George was the fourth in order 
of birth.

	George Armstrong was married (first) April 3, 1867, to Emily Kimball, 
who died April 27, 1875.  Two children of that marriage survive – Burt D., 
residing at Delaware, Ohio; and Mabel, who married V.E. Brevoort.  Mr. 
Brevoort is engaged in business at Columbus.  Mr. Armstrong was married 
(secondly) May 24, 1876, to Mrs. Irene (Kimball) Sedgwick.  A son, Charles O. 
Armstrong, is assistant cashier of the Sunbury Farmer’s Bank.  Mrs. Armstrong 
was born in Marion County, Ohio, September 21, 1843, and is a daughter of 
Elias and Irene A. (Ticknor) Kimball, natives of Lebanon, New Hampshire, who 
came to Marion County, Ohio, in 1839.  Elias Kimball was a merchant, and in 
1844 he engaged in a general mercantile business at Sunbury, which he 
continued until 1864.  At that time he practically retired, but resumed 
business activity in 1872, when he became one of the organizers of the Sunbury 
Bank, of which he was the first president, remaining such until his death, 
December 23, 1872.


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