Hardin County OhArchives Biographies.....Armstrong, Thomas 1804 - 
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Author: Warner & Beers (1883)

THOMAS ARMSTRONG, retired farmer, P. O. Kenton, was born in Westmoreland County,
Penn., June 14, 1804. He is a descendant of the old pioneers who settled in the
eastern part of Pennsylvania in the colonial times, and moved, after the
conflict for independence, with their families and goods on pack-horses Westward
over mountain trails, and settled in various parts of Westmoreland, Allegheny
and Armstrong Counties. where many of their descendants are still to be found.
Of those families most nearly related to our subject, are the Armstrongs,
Sloans, McCreas and McQuowns. The Sloans went to Armstrong County, the McCreas
to near Pittsburgh and the others to Westmoreland County. Thomas Armstrong,
grandfather of our subject, a native of Ireland, married Jane McCrea and died in
1820, at the age of ninety years. Ann (McQuoin) Armstrong, subject's mother, was
born in 1780, died in 1860. William Armstrong, father of our subject, was born
in 1774 and in 1822, moved with his family to Mansfield, Richland Co., Ohio, and
settled near the town on a farm of 160 acres, on which he lived fifteen years.
He died in Goshen Township in 1861. Our subject received a good education,
attending high school, and learned surveying under a competent teacher. For
several winters he was teaching school, and for two or three years was busy
studying medicine, but never entered into the practice of it. Mr. Armstrong was
a Captain in the Mansfield company of volunteer riflemen in a regiment of ten
companies. On April 8, 1830, he was married, by Rev. James Rowland, to Margaret
McQuown, by whom he had three children-G. W., in Kenton; Eugenia, wife of Mr. W.
Peck, of Wyandot County, and Margaret Jane, who died in her twentieth year.


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Goshen Township

Excerpt from

"The History of Hardin County, Ohio"
           containing
A HISTORY OF THE COUNTY; ITS TOWNSHIPS, TOWNS, CHURCHES,
 SCHOOLS, ETC.; GENERAL AND LOCAL STATISTICS; MILITARY
   RECORD; PORTRAITS OF EARLY SETTLERS AND PROMINENT
         MEN; HISTORY OF NORTHWEST TERRITORY;
             HISTORY OF OHIO; MISCELLANEOUS
                  MATTERS, ETC., ETC.

              CHICAGO: WARNER, BEERS & CO.
                          1883

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