Husband Dr. John A. Armstrong, A.M., M.D. 1 2 3
Born: 18 Aug 1838 - Allegheny Twp, Westmoreland Co, PA 4
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Died: 12 Jul 1912 4
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Father: John Armstrong (1796/1799-1872) 3 5
Mother: Sarah Ann Armstrong (Abt 1802-1877) 3 6
Marriage: 2 Apr 1868 7
Wife Amanda Catherine McKallip 2 7
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Father: Henry K. McKallip ( - ) 2 7 8
Mother: Mary Keely ( - ) 2 7 8
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1 F May Blanche Armstrong 7
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Spouse: H. W. Beale ( -Bef 1914) 7
Spouse: George A. Walker ( - ) 7
Marr: 28 Jan 1914 7
2 F Ann Orr Armstrong 7
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Spouse: Lewis Hicks ( - ) 7
3 F Grace Irwin Armstrong 7
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Spouse: Ned M. Austin ( - ) 7
4 F Eleannora Caldwell Armstrong 7
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Spouse: John W. Marshall ( - ) 7
General Notes: Husband - Dr. John A. Armstrong, A.M., M.D.
He attended public school in his home district, and later was a student in academies at Leechburg and Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He then entered Washington and Jefferson College at Washington, Pennsylvania, from which institution he was graduated in June, 1862, after which he began the study of medicine. In 1863, however, he joined the Union Army as a member of Company K, 54th Regiment, Pennsylvania Militia, and served about three months with that command. On Aug. 29, 1864, he enlisted in Company I, 205th Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteers, Heavy Artillery, with which he served to the close of the war, being honorably discharged June 13, 1865, at Vienna, Virginia. Returning home he resumed his medical studies, in September, 1865, entering Jefferson Medical College, at Philadelphia, where he completed the course, graduating in 1867. In May of that year he opened an office at Leechburg, Armstrong County, where he built up a large practice during a long career. He supplemented his early preparation by further study, taking a full course at one of the leading Philadelphia hospitals after his graduation from medical college. His literary education was unusually thorough, and he had the honor of receiving the A. M. degree from his alma mater.
At one time he was interested in the steel mill at Leechburg, and he was one of the pioneers in the natural gas business, being one of the owners that sunk the first well in his section when gas was used in the manufacture of steel at Leechburg. For twenty-five years he was a member of the borough school board and throughout that period served as secretary of that body. In 1900 the Doctor took a vacation abroad, making a three months' trip, during which he visited the home of his ancestors in Ireland and attended the Paris exposition.
The Doctor's lovable personality was feelingly delineated by his local colleague, Dr. Hunter, who wrote of him: "We practiced here as physicians nearly forty-six years, and while never part-ners our relations were more like those of brothers. We would leave our patients to each other during an absence or when it was impossible for one to visit patients. We never had a difference. He was an excellent physician and surgeon, honorable and upright in every way, and greatly deserved the esteem in which he was held by all. He was a prominent and active worker in the Presbyterian Church and taught the men's Bible class in that church for years. Dr. Armstrong had the analytical mind and was careful in his judgment in all matters."
Of Doctors Armstrong and Hunter it was said: "The medical profession points to those noble men as the highest and best examples of medical men and brothers, for they were not only the most admirable type of the family physicians, friend and adviser, but Christian gentlemen and brother physicians in all that implies. Both are now dead, but their lives and work will never be forgotten." [HAC 1914, 497]