Charles Dickey Armstrong and Gertrude Virginia Ludden

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Husband Charles Dickey Armstrong ¹

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           Born: 12 Oct 1861 - Pittsburgh, Allegheny Co, PA 1
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         Father: Thomas Morton Armstrong (1836-1908) 2
         Mother: Martha Jane Porter (1836-1921) 3

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       Marriage: 19 Nov 1885 4

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Wife Gertrude Virginia Ludden ⁴

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           Born:  - Oldtown, Penobscot Co, ME
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         Father: Prof. Levi Ludden (      -      ) 4
         Mother: Sara W. Dudley (      -      ) 4

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Children

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1 M Charles Dudley Armstrong ⁴

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           Born: 31 Aug 1888 4
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         Spouse: Mary Jones Hilliard (      -      ) 4
           Marr: 1 Jul 1916 4

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2 M Dwight Ludden Armstrong ⁴

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           Born: 4 Jun 1894 4
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         Spouse: Marion Gilmore Appel (      -      ) 5
           Marr: 14 Jan 1922 5

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3 F Mary Martha Armstrong ⁴

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           Born: 26 May 1898 4
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         Spouse: Andrew Bishop McClary (      -      ) 5
           Marr: 15 Jun 1927 - Cape Cod, MA 5

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General Notes: Husband - Charles Dickey Armstrong

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He was the first child baptized in the Fourth United Presbyterian Church of old Allegheny, of which his father was a charter member. He removed when young with his parents to the East End, where he attended the Lincoln School and the Central High School of Pittsburgh.
In 1878 he became associated with Armstrong Brother and Company, which in 1891 was incorporated as Armstrong Brother and Company, Inc., and with that firm's successor, The Armstrong Cork Company, of which corporation he was vice president from its formation in 1894 until he succeeded in 1908 to the presidency of the Company, which came to include the following subsidiaries: The Armstrong Cork and Insulation Company, a Pennsylvania corporation; Armstrong Cork and Insulation Company, Ltd. of Canada; Armstrong Cork Company of Spain, where there was a plant in the suburbs of the beautiful old city of Seville; Armstrong Cork Company of France; Armstrong Cork Products Company and others.
He was a director and supporter of the Boys' Club of Pittsburgh. Mr. Armstrong was also a member of the Zoning Board of Pittsburgh, a director of the Chamber of Commerce, the Union National Bank, the Real Estate Trust Company of Pittsburgh, and the Parral and Durango Railroad of Mexico. He was a trustee of the Dollar Savings Bank of Pittsburgh and president of the Board of Trustees of the First Presbyterian Church of Wilkinsburg and a member of the West Penn Hospital Board. He was also a member of the Duquesne Club and the Pittsburgh Country Club.

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General Notes: Wife - Gertrude Virginia Ludden

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She attended the Lincoln School in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, the Central High School, the Pennsylvania College for Women and Mt. Holyoke College. She was a member of the Twentieth Century Club of Pittsburgh, the Woman's Club of Wilkinsburg, the College Club, and was honorary director of the Pittsburgh and Allegheny Free Kindergarten Association, and a member of the Board of the Y. W. C. A. of Pittsburgh.

1 Blanche T. Hartman, Genealogy of the Nesbit, Ross, Porter, Taggart Families of Pennsylvania (Pittsburgh, PA: Privately printed, 1929), Pg 93.

2 Blanche T. Hartman, Genealogy of the Nesbit, Ross, Porter, Taggart Families of Pennsylvania (Pittsburgh, PA: Privately printed, 1929), Pg 92.

3 Blanche T. Hartman, Genealogy of the Nesbit, Ross, Porter, Taggart Families of Pennsylvania (Pittsburgh, PA: Privately printed, 1929), Pg 89.

4 Blanche T. Hartman, Genealogy of the Nesbit, Ross, Porter, Taggart Families of Pennsylvania (Pittsburgh, PA: Privately printed, 1929), Pg 94.

5 Blanche T. Hartman, Genealogy of the Nesbit, Ross, Porter, Taggart Families of Pennsylvania (Pittsburgh, PA: Privately printed, 1929), Pg 95.