Nowata Co., Oklahoma - Bio for Solomon F. Armstrong
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MUSKOGEE AND NORTHEASTERN OKLAHOMA:
Including the counties of Muskogee, McIntosh, Wagoner, Cherokee,
Sequoyah, Adair, Delaware, Mayes, Rogers, Washington, Nowata, Craig,
and Ottawa. Vol. II.

by John D. Benedict

1922
The S.J. Clarke Publishing Co., Chicago 
Page 513

SOLOMON F. ARMSTRONG 

For forty years Solomon F. Armstrong has resided in Nowata county and
is recognized as one of the county’s representative agriculturists.
A native of Wyandotte county, Kansas, and of Delaware extraction,
his birth occurred on the 1st of September, 1865, and he is a son of
Charles and Mary C. (Secondine) Armstrong. His father came to Nowata
county and located at Coodys Bluff in 1866, where he was a farmer
and stock raiser. He died fifteen years ago. Mrs. Armstrong is now
Mrs. Bezion and extended mention of her is made on another page of
this work. She is one of Nowata county’s pioneer citizens and is now
seventy-three years of age. 

In 1867 Solomon F. Armstrong came to Coodys Bluff with his
grandmother, Lucy Secondine, and he received his education in a log
schoolhouse there. When he was nineteen years of age he rode the
range for the Bar X ranch but after one year in that connection
enrolled as a student in the Male Seminary at Tahlequah. Completing
his course there, he returned home and was shortly afterward married.
He subsequently engaged in farming and stock raising near Delaware. 
Nine years ago he removed to his present place, one and one-half
miles west of Delaware, where he has forty acres. He likewise has
oil land, from which he draws royalties, and he does pipe fitting
for the various oil companies in his neighborhood. Before statehood
Mr. Armstrong was for many years active as a notary public. 

In 1886 was celebrated the marriage of Mr. Armstrong to Miss Minnie
May, a native of Indiana but a resident of Kansas for many years.
They have two children. Myrtle R., is the wife of Sam Mattix and
their children are Merle, Robert, Zelins, and Samuel A., all of
whom are attending school. Ruby D. is Mrs. Rubin Sarcoxie and the
mother of five children: Floyd, Zella E., Quitaquay, Lillian and
Jewel, the first three of whom are attending school. 

During the forty years of his residence in Nowata county, Mr.
Armstrong has been an influential factor in the development and
improvement of the community and has attained his present success
as the result of intelligently directed effort and innate ability.
His home is one of the show places of the country with its highly
cultivated fields and modern home and outbuildings. 

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