John M. Armstrong and Minnie Blair

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Husband John M. Armstrong ¹

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           Born: 26 Aug 1868 - Natrona, Allegheny Co, PA 1
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         Father: Samuel S. Armstrong (      -      ) 2 3
         Mother: Martha J. Blackwood (Abt 1840-1906) 1

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Wife Minnie Blair ⁴

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         Father: Joseph Blair (      -      ) 4 5
         Mother: Margaret Taylor (      -      ) 5

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Children

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1 F Martha B. Armstrong ⁴

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2 F Laroka Eleanor Armstrong ⁴

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3 F Elizabeth Viola Armstrong ⁴

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4 M John Bruce Armstrong ⁴

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General Notes: Husband - John M. Armstrong

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He attended what was known as the old Irishtown school in Allegheny township, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, and was at home with his father until he reached the age of twenty-two years. He then traveled for two years as a salesman, after which he returned to the home farm and engaged in the dairy business. His next venture was at Leechburg, Pennsylvania, where he opened a milk depot and confectionery store, later adding groceries to the stock. He continued to carry on this business until 1900, when he entered into a partnership with his cousin, R. M. Armstrong, and embarked in the furniture business at Leechburg, their establishment being on Market street. Mr. Armstrong then took a course in embalming at a Pittsburgh college, graduating in April, 1900, thus preparing himself for the undertaking branch of the business of the firm. It was first known as J. M. & R. M. Armstrong, and three years after it was founded A. M. Armstrong, brother of R. M., was admitted, after which the style was the Armstrong Furniture Company. The firm had another store at Vandergrift, in Westmoreland County.
He was a member of both the State and National Funeral Directors' Associations, was very active in those bodies, and in 1910, at Altoona, Pennsylvania, was elected second vice president of the State organization; at Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, in June, 1913, he was elected State president.
He was an active member of the United Presbyterian Church, and had a young men's class in the Sunday school. He was a Republican in politics, but not active in party affairs. [HAC 1914, 601]

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General Notes: Wife - Minnie Blair

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from McKeesport, Allegheny Co, PA

1 —, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania, Her People Past and Present (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1914), Pg 600.

2 John W. Jordan, History of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, Genealogical Memoirs, Vol. II (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1906), Pg 526.

3 —, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania, Her People Past and Present (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1914), Pg 497, 600.

4 —, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania, Her People Past and Present (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1914), Pg 601.

5 Lewis Clark Walkinshaw, A.M, Annals of Southwestern Pennsylvania, Vol. IV (New York, NY: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, Inc., 1939), Pg 567.