BIO:  James A. ARMSTRONG, York County, PA

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History of York County, Pennsylvania.  John Gibson, Historical Editor.
Chicago: F. A. Battey Publishing Co., 1886.
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Part II, Biographical Sketches, Wrightsville Borough and Hellam Township, Pg 73

JAMES A. ARMSTRONG, M. D., was born in Lisbon, Ohio, January 8, 1839.  His 
parents were James and Margaret (Knepley) Armstrong, of Ohio and District of 
Columbia, and of Scotch-Irish and German descent respectively.  Until his 
fourteenth year he lived on the farm, receiving his primary education at the 
schools of New Oxford, Penn.  At the age of twenty he entered the office of Dr. 
Pfeiffer, of New Oxford, where he read medicine for two years, going from there 
to Abbottstown, where he read with Dr. Pepper for three years.  After practicing 
and continuing his studies for a few years, he entered the University of 
Pennsylvania at Philadelphia, from which institution he graduated, in the spring 
of 1871, as medical doctor.  After practicing a year in Philadelphia, he 
discovered his health to be failing, and discontinued for about one year, 
devoting his whole time to the recuperation of his physical forces.  In 1873 he 
removed to Hellam, where he has since been practicing his profession with 
success.  He was married, at Abbottstown, in 1876, to Miss M. Wolf, and had born 
to him six children, three of whom died in infancy.  The living are Ernest A., 
Mary E. and Margaret L.  Dr. Armstrong is a member and deacon of the Lutheran 
Church, and was school director three years, and is a member of the State 
Medical Association, and of the York County Medical Society, of which he was 
vice-president at one time.