Moses Kimball Armstrong Biography

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ARMSTRONG, Moses Kimball, a Delegate from the Territory of Dakota; born 
in Milan, Erie County, Ohio, September 19, 1832; attended Huron 
Institute and Western Reserve College, Cleveland, Ohio; moved to the 
Territory of Minnesota in 1856; elected surveyor of Mower County, and 
assigned to survey the United States lands in 1858; moved to Yankton, 
then a small Indian village, in Dakota Territory, when Minnesota 
Territory was admitted as a State; was a member of the first 
Territorial house of representatives in 1861; reelected in 1862 and 
1863, serving as speaker in 1863; edited the Dakota Union in 1864; 
appointed clerk of the supreme court in 1865; elected to the 
Territorial council in 1866 and in 1867 was chosen president; acted as 
secretary of the Indian peace commission in 1867; established the great 
meridian and standard lines for United States surveys in southern 
Dakota and in the northern Red River Valley; again elected to the 
Territorial council, in 1869; elected as a Democrat to the Forty-second 
and Forty-third Congresses (March 4, 1871-March 3, 1875); unsuccessful 
candidate for reelection in 1874 to the Forty-fourth Congress; moved to 
St. James, Watonwan County, Minn., and engaged in banking and in the 
real-estate business; died in Albert Lea, Minn., on January 11, 1906; 
interment in Lakewood Cemetery, Minneapolis, Minn.