George T. Armstrong 1835-1909

ARMSTRONG, HULL, DARE

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Date: 3/14/2020 at 18:20:02

George T. Armstrong’s parents came to Boston from Canada when he was twelve. After four years they moved to Troy, New York, where George at age 16 went to work in the cotton bleaching mills.

In New York State he married Sarah Hull. They came west to New Wine Township in 1856. George enlisted the 21st Iowa volunteers-Co. F. when the Civil War broke out. At the close of the war in 1865 he and his brother-in-law, John Hull bought a farm 3 miles southwest in Farley. Later John Hull returned to New York and George Armstrong bought the American House in Farley, he and his sons then became active in construction, building homes for George Pitman Sr.; the Callahan sisters; Will Campbell; C.C. Placke; and C.E. Gault (later George Nichols property).

After the death of his wife Sarah in 1900, George served two years in the agricultural department in Washington. He returned to Farley and married a second time to Elizabeth Dare.

George died at the age of 74 on June 11, 1909. Two sons, John W. of Farley and George E. of Kennewick, Washington survived him. Burial was at Fairview cemetery.

The History of Farley, Well Publishing, Copyright, 1996.