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Portrait and Biographical Album of
Huron County, Michigan
Pub. Chapman Brothers, Chicago, 1884

           [216-217]

           JAMES ARMSTRONG, farmer, section 1, Colfax Township, is a native
        born citizen of Michigan.  He is the son of JAMES B. and HARRIET M.
        (HARTSHORN) ARMSTRONG, and was born April 17, 1849, in Port Huron.
        The parents were born respectively in Vermont and New York.  Soon
        after their marriage they settled in Michigan.  The father died
        April 23, 1874, in Huron County.  The mother survives.  Their fami-
        ly consisted of four sons and two daughters.
           MR. ARMSTRONG, is the second of the sons.  He obtained a common-
        school education, and at 18 years of age he became a lumberman and
        spent the winter months of six years in that occupation.  In 1868,
        he bought 80 acres of land in Colfax Township, for which he paid at
        the rate of $1.25 per acre.  In the fall of 1871 he settled on the
        place which has since been his home.  His farm contains 55 acres of
        cleared and cultivated land. He is a Republican in political views,
        and has served his township as Treasurer and in other school and
        local offices.
           He was married in Huron Co., Mich., May 21, 1871, to ROXANA C.
        SPENCER. Her parents, WILLIAM and BETSEY (WILSON) SPENCER, were
        natives of Canada. They were pioneer settlers of Sanilac County,
        and the mother died there. The father removed later to Huron County
        and went thence to Dakota.  MRS. ARMSTRONG was born Dec. 23, 1846,
        in Sanilac Co., Mich. The children which constitute the issue of
        her marriage to MR. ARMSTRONG were born as follows: GEORGE W.,
        WILLIAM I., HUBERT R. and CORA M.

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