A. M. Armstrong

        A. M. Armstrong, engaged in mercantile pursuits in the village of Trenton, and in farming and dealing in stock, is a native of Butler County, Ohio, born August 15, 1829. When ten years old his parents removed to Iroquois County, Illinois, and three years alter settled in Wayne County, Indiana, where our subject grew to manhood, remaining there ten years. In the spring of 1853 he came with his parents, two brothers and three sisters to Blackford County, the family settling one and a half miles south of Trenton. The farm on which they settled was partially improved, having ten or twelve acres cleared, and an old log cabin built. The homestead is now under fine cultivation, and is owned by the subject of this sketch.

    He was united in marriage December 16, 1860, to Miss Christiana A. Afrey, who was born in Switzerland County, Indiana in 1841, and died at Trenton, February 3, 1866, leaving her husband with three children - Ezra C., Lilly Estella and one who died in infancy, unnamed. Mr. Anderson was a second time married May 19, 1867, to Miss Lovina Anderson, who was born and reared in Blackford County, her parents, Humphrey and Harriet (Havens) Anderson, being born in Guernsey County, Ohio. They came to Blackford County in 1837. The father died at New Orleans, while on his way to California, in 1852. His widow still survives, and is living in Blackford County, aged sixty-one years. Mr. and Mrs. Armstrong have four living children - William, born March 5, 1868; Flora, born in November, 1870; Thurel, born November 11, 1875, and Ralph, born August 18, 1882. Mr. Anderson is a son of William and Eleanor (Kennedy) Armstrong, the father a native of Maryland, and the mother of Butler County, Ohio. The father was at one time engaged in the mercantile business, but lost his property through the dishonesty of his partner. He died in Blackford County, March 6, 1876. The mother still survives, making her home with her youngest daughter, Mary E. Ransom.

Source: Biographical and Historical Record of Jay and Blackford County, Indiana. The Lewis Publishing Co., 1887. Page 867.