JAMES A. ARMSTRONG, the eldest son of Orrin M. [Armstrong] and Beulah (Hine) Armstrong, was born in Washington, Litchfield County, Connecticut, on November 21, 1805. When a boy, he lived part of the time with his grandfather, James Armstrong, after whom he was named. He attended a common school, and soon after the death of his father, entered a store at Newburgh, on the Hudson River. There and in that vicinity he spent his time until 1832, when he came to Detroit.
As a young man, he had a bright intellect, and was strictly moral and industrious, and on his arrival here, obtained a situation in the forwarding and commission house of Oliver Newberry, where he remained many years, and subsequently went into the forwarding and commission business on his own account. He afterwards formed a partnership with A. H. Sibley, and later on became junior partner in the firm of Nickles, Whitcomb & Armstrong. In 1846 he organized the forwarding house of James A. Armstrong & Company, and for many years did a large business.
From 1857 to 1862 he was the General Freight Agent of the Detroit & Milwaukee Railroad Company, and at the close of his term of service the officers of the company presented him with a token of their appreciation and esteem, in the shape of a fine gold chronometer watch, bearing an appropriate inscription, and dated May 29, 1862. Soon after this he closed his business in Detroit, and went to Buffalo, where, with Henry P. Bridge, of Detroit, he engaged in the business of forwarding and commission. The relation continued until 1866, when he returned to Detroit, as the General Agent of the Western Insurance Company, and remained such until the Chicago fire of October, 1871, broke up the company. After this, and until his death, he held the offices of Secretary and Treasurer of the Detroit Car Loan Company, the Detroit Car Company, and of the Marshall Car Company.
He was an active member of the Detroit Board of Trade, and one of its original organizers.
He possessed superior business capacity, and was scrupulously honest and exact, his accounts showing that when he used the company's stationery and stamped envelopes, for personal correspondence, he charged them to himself at their full price, a little account book, in his own writing, furnishing curious evidence of his exactness in these matters. It is the uniform testimony of those who knew him most intimately, that as a business man, husband, father, and citizen, his character was without reproach, and few men in social or business circles have commanded more fully the esteem and confidence of their contemporaries, or left behind them a brighter example.
He was eminently a charitable man, and showed his kindness to the poor in many practical ways, and was always ready to serve a friend, spending much time, for which he received no compensation, in looking up and locating lands in Michigan for parties desiring to purchase or settle in the State. From about 1842, until his death, he was a member of St. Paul's Episcopal Church, and was a zealous and consistent churchman.
He was married in the autumn of 1839, to Augusta [Sibley], daughter of Judge Solomon Sibley. She lived only until March, 1841, and on February 10, 1847, he married Mary E. Bates, daughter of Phineas P. Bates, of Canandaigua, New York, and sister of George C. Bates, of Detroit. He died March 13, 1874, leaving his widow and three children.
History of Detroit and Wayne County and early Michigan, by Silas Farmer, pp 1208-1209
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James A. Armstrong shares a marker with Mary E. Armstrong (1818-1900).
This plot includes markers for: William N. Armstrong (1854-1890), John B. Armstrong (1849-1871), Mary Augusta Armstrong Aikman, Edward Grant Aikman, Katherine Armstrong Bidwell, James A. Armstrong (1805-1874) and Mary E. Armstrong (1818-1900), children of J.A. Armstrong, and Kinzie Bates.
As a young man, he had a bright intellect, and was strictly moral and industrious, and on his arrival here, obtained a situation in the forwarding and commission house of Oliver Newberry, where he remained many years, and subsequently went into the forwarding and commission business on his own account. He afterwards formed a partnership with A. H. Sibley, and later on became junior partner in the firm of Nickles, Whitcomb & Armstrong. In 1846 he organized the forwarding house of James A. Armstrong & Company, and for many years did a large business.
From 1857 to 1862 he was the General Freight Agent of the Detroit & Milwaukee Railroad Company, and at the close of his term of service the officers of the company presented him with a token of their appreciation and esteem, in the shape of a fine gold chronometer watch, bearing an appropriate inscription, and dated May 29, 1862. Soon after this he closed his business in Detroit, and went to Buffalo, where, with Henry P. Bridge, of Detroit, he engaged in the business of forwarding and commission. The relation continued until 1866, when he returned to Detroit, as the General Agent of the Western Insurance Company, and remained such until the Chicago fire of October, 1871, broke up the company. After this, and until his death, he held the offices of Secretary and Treasurer of the Detroit Car Loan Company, the Detroit Car Company, and of the Marshall Car Company.
He was an active member of the Detroit Board of Trade, and one of its original organizers.
He possessed superior business capacity, and was scrupulously honest and exact, his accounts showing that when he used the company's stationery and stamped envelopes, for personal correspondence, he charged them to himself at their full price, a little account book, in his own writing, furnishing curious evidence of his exactness in these matters. It is the uniform testimony of those who knew him most intimately, that as a business man, husband, father, and citizen, his character was without reproach, and few men in social or business circles have commanded more fully the esteem and confidence of their contemporaries, or left behind them a brighter example.
He was eminently a charitable man, and showed his kindness to the poor in many practical ways, and was always ready to serve a friend, spending much time, for which he received no compensation, in looking up and locating lands in Michigan for parties desiring to purchase or settle in the State. From about 1842, until his death, he was a member of St. Paul's Episcopal Church, and was a zealous and consistent churchman.
He was married in the autumn of 1839, to Augusta [Sibley], daughter of Judge Solomon Sibley. She lived only until March, 1841, and on February 10, 1847, he married Mary E. Bates, daughter of Phineas P. Bates, of Canandaigua, New York, and sister of George C. Bates, of Detroit. He died March 13, 1874, leaving his widow and three children.
History of Detroit and Wayne County and early Michigan, by Silas Farmer, pp 1208-1209
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James A. Armstrong shares a marker with Mary E. Armstrong (1818-1900).
This plot includes markers for: William N. Armstrong (1854-1890), John B. Armstrong (1849-1871), Mary Augusta Armstrong Aikman, Edward Grant Aikman, Katherine Armstrong Bidwell, James A. Armstrong (1805-1874) and Mary E. Armstrong (1818-1900), children of J.A. Armstrong, and Kinzie Bates.
JAMES A. ARMSTRONG, the eldest son of Orrin M. [Armstrong] and Beulah (Hine) Armstrong, was born in Washington, Litchfield County, Connecticut, on November 21, 1805. When a boy, he lived part of the time with his grandfather, James Armstrong, after whom he was named. He attended a common school, and soon after the death of his father, entered a store at Newburgh, on the Hudson River. There and in that vicinity he spent his time until 1832, when he came to Detroit.
As a young man, he had a bright intellect, and was strictly moral and industrious, and on his arrival here, obtained a situation in the forwarding and commission house of Oliver Newberry, where he remained many years, and subsequently went into the forwarding and commission business on his own account. He afterwards formed a partnership with A. H. Sibley, and later on became junior partner in the firm of Nickles, Whitcomb & Armstrong. In 1846 he organized the forwarding house of James A. Armstrong & Company, and for many years did a large business.
From 1857 to 1862 he was the General Freight Agent of the Detroit & Milwaukee Railroad Company, and at the close of his term of service the officers of the company presented him with a token of their appreciation and esteem, in the shape of a fine gold chronometer watch, bearing an appropriate inscription, and dated May 29, 1862. Soon after this he closed his business in Detroit, and went to Buffalo, where, with Henry P. Bridge, of Detroit, he engaged in the business of forwarding and commission. The relation continued until 1866, when he returned to Detroit, as the General Agent of the Western Insurance Company, and remained such until the Chicago fire of October, 1871, broke up the company. After this, and until his death, he held the offices of Secretary and Treasurer of the Detroit Car Loan Company, the Detroit Car Company, and of the Marshall Car Company.
He was an active member of the Detroit Board of Trade, and one of its original organizers.
He possessed superior business capacity, and was scrupulously honest and exact, his accounts showing that when he used the company's stationery and stamped envelopes, for personal correspondence, he charged them to himself at their full price, a little account book, in his own writing, furnishing curious evidence of his exactness in these matters. It is the uniform testimony of those who knew him most intimately, that as a business man, husband, father, and citizen, his character was without reproach, and few men in social or business circles have commanded more fully the esteem and confidence of their contemporaries, or left behind them a brighter example.
He was eminently a charitable man, and showed his kindness to the poor in many practical ways, and was always ready to serve a friend, spending much time, for which he received no compensation, in looking up and locating lands in Michigan for parties desiring to purchase or settle in the State. From about 1842, until his death, he was a member of St. Paul's Episcopal Church, and was a zealous and consistent churchman.
He was married in the autumn of 1839, to Augusta [Sibley], daughter of Judge Solomon Sibley. She lived only until March, 1841, and on February 10, 1847, he married Mary E. Bates, daughter of Phineas P. Bates, of Canandaigua, New York, and sister of George C. Bates, of Detroit. He died March 13, 1874, leaving his widow and three children.
History of Detroit and Wayne County and early Michigan, by Silas Farmer, pp 1208-1209
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James A. Armstrong shares a marker with Mary E. Armstrong (1818-1900).
This plot includes markers for: William N. Armstrong (1854-1890), John B. Armstrong (1849-1871), Mary Augusta Armstrong Aikman, Edward Grant Aikman, Katherine Armstrong Bidwell, James A. Armstrong (1805-1874) and Mary E. Armstrong (1818-1900), children of J.A. Armstrong, and Kinzie Bates.
As a young man, he had a bright intellect, and was strictly moral and industrious, and on his arrival here, obtained a situation in the forwarding and commission house of Oliver Newberry, where he remained many years, and subsequently went into the forwarding and commission business on his own account. He afterwards formed a partnership with A. H. Sibley, and later on became junior partner in the firm of Nickles, Whitcomb & Armstrong. In 1846 he organized the forwarding house of James A. Armstrong & Company, and for many years did a large business.
From 1857 to 1862 he was the General Freight Agent of the Detroit & Milwaukee Railroad Company, and at the close of his term of service the officers of the company presented him with a token of their appreciation and esteem, in the shape of a fine gold chronometer watch, bearing an appropriate inscription, and dated May 29, 1862. Soon after this he closed his business in Detroit, and went to Buffalo, where, with Henry P. Bridge, of Detroit, he engaged in the business of forwarding and commission. The relation continued until 1866, when he returned to Detroit, as the General Agent of the Western Insurance Company, and remained such until the Chicago fire of October, 1871, broke up the company. After this, and until his death, he held the offices of Secretary and Treasurer of the Detroit Car Loan Company, the Detroit Car Company, and of the Marshall Car Company.
He was an active member of the Detroit Board of Trade, and one of its original organizers.
He possessed superior business capacity, and was scrupulously honest and exact, his accounts showing that when he used the company's stationery and stamped envelopes, for personal correspondence, he charged them to himself at their full price, a little account book, in his own writing, furnishing curious evidence of his exactness in these matters. It is the uniform testimony of those who knew him most intimately, that as a business man, husband, father, and citizen, his character was without reproach, and few men in social or business circles have commanded more fully the esteem and confidence of their contemporaries, or left behind them a brighter example.
He was eminently a charitable man, and showed his kindness to the poor in many practical ways, and was always ready to serve a friend, spending much time, for which he received no compensation, in looking up and locating lands in Michigan for parties desiring to purchase or settle in the State. From about 1842, until his death, he was a member of St. Paul's Episcopal Church, and was a zealous and consistent churchman.
He was married in the autumn of 1839, to Augusta [Sibley], daughter of Judge Solomon Sibley. She lived only until March, 1841, and on February 10, 1847, he married Mary E. Bates, daughter of Phineas P. Bates, of Canandaigua, New York, and sister of George C. Bates, of Detroit. He died March 13, 1874, leaving his widow and three children.
History of Detroit and Wayne County and early Michigan, by Silas Farmer, pp 1208-1209
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James A. Armstrong shares a marker with Mary E. Armstrong (1818-1900).
This plot includes markers for: William N. Armstrong (1854-1890), John B. Armstrong (1849-1871), Mary Augusta Armstrong Aikman, Edward Grant Aikman, Katherine Armstrong Bidwell, James A. Armstrong (1805-1874) and Mary E. Armstrong (1818-1900), children of J.A. Armstrong, and Kinzie Bates.
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