Marion County, West Virginia    Biography of Paul G. ARMSTRONG

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The History of West Virginia, Old and New
Published 1923, The American Historical Society, Inc.,
Chicago and New York, Volume II, pg. 128-129

    Paul G. Armstrong has been engaged in the practice of law at Fairmont, 
judicial center of Marion County, since 1909, and his record attests alike 
his professional ability and his personal popularity, for he has built up a 
successful general practice and is one of the loyal and progressive citizens 
of Fairmont.
    Mr. Armstrong claims the old Buckeye State as the place of his nativity, 
his birth having at Bannock, Belmont County, Ohio, March 24,1884. He is a son 
of John and Martha (Trussel) Armstrong, the former of whom was born in 
Belmont County, Ohio, in 1850, and the latter was born at Dallas, West 
Virginia, in 1855. Warden and Eliza Armstrong, paternal grandparents of the 
subject of this review, were of English ancestry, the respective families 
having been founded in America prior to the war of the Revolution.
    Paul G. Armstrong acquired his early education in the district schools of 
his native county, and in 1904 was graduated from the high school at St. 
Clairsville, Ohio. In the following year he entered the University of West 
Virginia, in the law department of which he continued his studies two years. 
He then became a student in the law department of the Ohio State University, 
in the City of Columbus, and there he was graduated as a member of the class 
of 1908. February 2,1909, marked the opening of an office at Fairmont, where 
he has since continued in active practice and where he has gained status as 
one of the representative members of the Marion County Bar. He is a member of 
the Marion County Bar Association and the West Virginia Bar Association. he 
is also a member of Fairmont Lodge no. 9, A.F. and A. M., of Crusade 
Commandery no. 6, Knights Templar, of the Mystic Shrine, and of McDaniel 
Lodge of Perfection in the Scottish Rite of Masonry at Wheeling, West 
Vriginia. he holds membership in the Cheat Mountain and Allegheny clubs and 
the Fairmont Shrine Club, and is a member of the First Presbyterian Church of 
Fairmont.