John L. Armbrust and Elizabeth Emma Graves

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Husband John L. Armbrust ^{1 2}

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            AKA: John Weiman Armbrust 3
           Born: 26 Dec 1858 - Armbrust, Westmoreland Co, PA 1
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         Father: William Armbrust (1818-      ) 1 3 4
         Mother: Margaret Gongaware (      -      ) 1 4

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       Marriage: 19 Dec 1882 5 6

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Wife Elizabeth Emma Graves ^{5 6}

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         Father: Uriel Graves (      -      ) 5
         Mother: Lucinda Strong (      -      ) 5

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Children

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1 M Luther Uriel Armbrust ^{5 6}

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2 M William Heart Armbrust ^{5 6}

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3 F Edna Sarah Armbrust ^{5 6}

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         Spouse: Charles Shoemaker (      -      ) 6

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General Notes: Husband - John L. Armbrust

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He received a common school education in the district (Ruffs) school of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, and was employed mostly in his father's grist and saw mill and in farming until about twenty-four years of age. He worked some at photographing and was then employed by Israel Glunt, of Greensburg, in the piano and organ business for several years, but was still residing at Armbrust. He enlisted in Company I, National Guard Pennsylvania, and served five years under the captaincy of J. M. Laird and J. B. Kenann, and attended the inauguration of President J. A. Garfield during that term. After working several years for Israel Glunt he embarked in business for him-self, commencing January 1, 1894, and built up a good trade in the piano, organ and sewing machine business. He had built a small wareroom, which soon was too small for his increasing business, and he then built a large two story frame building in order to accommodate his trade. In politics he was always conscientious, voting for the man in preference to the party, and although leaning toward the Republican party, voted for men on the Democratic and Prohibition tickets, using his own judgment. He used his mind and judgment religiously, and in De-cember, 1886, united with the church of Jesus Christ by the ordinance of bap-tism, administered by Elder Allen Wright, and thereafter was identified with that body; their faith was entirely based on the Jewish scrip-tures, they being firm believers in a primitive restoration of the Gospel of Christ.

1 John W. Jordan, History of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, Genealogical Memoirs, Vol. II (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1906), Pg 420.

2 Fenwick Y. Hedley, Old and New Westmoreland, Vols. III & IV (New York, NY: The American Historical Society, Inc., 1918), Pg 779.

3 Samuel T. Wiley, Biographical and Historical Cyclopedia of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: John M. Gresham & Co., 1890.), Pg 652.

4 Fenwick Y. Hedley, Old and New Westmoreland, Vols. III & IV (New York, NY: The American Historical Society, Inc., 1918), Pg 778.

5 John W. Jordan, History of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, Genealogical Memoirs, Vol. II (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1906), Pg 421.

6 Fenwick Y. Hedley, Old and New Westmoreland, Vols. III & IV (New York, NY: The American Historical Society, Inc., 1918), Pg 780.