Armstrong, Harry G.

ARMSTRONG, HART, DAWLEY

Posted By: Gary Norris (email)
Date: 1/3/2013 at 10:04:30

The History of Poweshiek County, Iowa
Des Moines: Union Hist. Co., 1880.

ARMSTRONG, HARRY G. - Deep River Twp - pg 707-8. Postmaster at Deep River, and dealer in general merchandise. His father, A.C. Armstrong, emigrated West in the spring of 1855, and after stopping eight months in Battle Creek, Michigan, came directly to this county, and in conjunction with Albert Morgan and others, laid out the plat of the village of Dresden. He built the first house ever erected in the town. It was twelve by ten feet, and has since been moved about three miles west of town, where it now stands on Thos. Harris - place, a monument of the early settlement of the county. Harry was born in Rutland county, Vermont, May 4, 1848. He was raised on a farm, and enjoyed the advantages of an ordinary district school, which he regularly attended during winter, farming in summer, until he was twenty years old, when he married Miss Fidesta M. Hart, of Deep River township, on March 11, 1868. Mrs. Armstrong was born in Cedar county, Iowa May 23, 1850. To them were born three children: Hattie H. (born June 4, 1869), Alice A. (born April 4, 1871), and Abel C. (born April 2, 1874, and died October 30, 1875). Mrs. Armstrong died November 12, 1875, and on the 13th of March, 1877, he married Miss Hattie M. Dawley, of Rutland county, Vermont, who was born among the mountains, May 24, 1851. She has borne her husband one child, Herbert H. (born October 18, 1879). Mr. Armstrong owns his comfortable home, and is full proprietor of a thriving business. He was the first to put the telephone to practical use in Dresden, by connecting his store with his dwelling. He has served his township in the capacity of clerk, and enjoys the confidence of his many patrons as a gentleman of undoubted business integrity.