Andrew F. Armstrong

ARMSTRONG, GIBSON, TOWNSEND

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1889 BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY OF
SHELBY AND AUDUBON COUNTIES, IOWA
W. S. DUNBAR & CO., PUBLISHERS
113 ADAMS STREET, CHICAGO

page 798

ANDREW F. ARMSTROING, of the
firm of Freeman & Armstrong, bankers
and dealers in real-estate and loans, is
a native of Licking County, Ohio, born Octo-
ber 28, 1851. He is next to the youngest of
eleven children, of whom six still survive.
The father of A. F. Armstrong is William
Armstrong, a farmer by occupation, and a
native of Pennsylvania., now a resident of
Muskingum County, Ohio. The mother,
Jane E. Gibson, a native of Pennsylvania,
died January 11, 1881. Andrew F. Arm-
strong, the subject of this notice, passed his
boyhood on a farm in his native county, and
then moved with his parents to Norwich,
Muskingum County, Ohio, where he spent
three years; in the spring of 1864 he returned
to Licking County. He attended school, and
in 1869 began teaching. On September 13,
1871, he entered the Ohio Wesleyan Univer-
sity at Delaware, where he pursued his
studies and graduated in 1876. After gradu-
ation he studied law at Zanesville, Ohio, with
A. W. Train, a prominent attorney of that
place. He was admitted to the bar in the
fall of 1879. April 1, 1880, Mr. Armstrong
came to Audubon, opening a law office in
connection with real estate and loans. In
September, 1882, he formed a co-partnership
with E. J. Freeman, who is now cashier of the
Citizens' Bank of Audubon. The firm does
a general banking business, besides dealing
extensively in real-estate. Mr. Armstrong
was married October 18, 1883, to Miss Clara
S. Townsend, of Zanesville, Ohio, a daughter of
William Townsend, of that place. They have
two daughters -- Lulu T. and Helen L. Mr.
Armstrong was elected Mayor of Audubon in
March, 1888; and re-elected in March, 1889.
He was treasurer of the school board from 1883
to 1888. He was a member of the board of
supervisors, serving two years, and in the fall of
1888 was re-elected to serve three years from
January 1, 1889. He is a member of Veritas
Lodge, No. 392, A. F. &A. M., and of Amity
Chapter, No. 93, and Godfrey Commandery,
No. 44; he is now Eminent Commander of
the Commandery.