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(III) Samuel Martin, son of William Mar- tin and Mary (Calwell) Fleming, was born in Armstrong county, Pennsylvania, March, 1853. He was educated in the public schools of the county and afterward learned the machinist's trade, an occupation he now follows in Wells- ville, Ohio. He is a Republican in politics, although the only office he has ever occupied is that of school director, which he has held for several years. He and his wife were mem- bers of the Methodist Episcopal church. He married Mary, born 1846, daughter of Jacob Kuhn, of Armstrong county, Pennsylvania, who died April, 1876, in Armstrong county ; he was a cooper by trade, and married Mary Kuhn, born in Armstrong county, Pennsyl- vania, died at Freeport, Pennsylvania. Mary (Kuhn) Fleming had one sister Agnes, who died at Freeport, unmarried ; and one brother Harry, who lives at Freeport with his family. Children of Samuel Martin and Mary (Kuhn) Fleming : 1. Charles, born 1873; an employee of the Traction Company of Findlay, Ohio;
married Marguerite Clark, of Findlay, Ohio. 2. Samuel M., of whom further.
(IV) Samuel M. (2), son of Samuel M. (I) and Mary (Kuhn) Fleming, was born in Allegheny county, July 21, 1875. He received his education in the public schools and after- ward graduated from the business college at Bradford. He followed the oil business for several years in Bradford oil fields, Pennsyl- vania, and then in Nebraska, trying to estab- lish for private family nse a crude oil burner. On November 18, 1911, he purchased a grocery store at Custer City, Pennsylvania, where he has milling facilities for grinding and mixing feed. In politics his vote has always been cast for the individual, never for the party. He is a member of Tent No. 4, Knights of the Macca- bees, at Bradford. He and his wife attend the Methodist Episcopal church. He married, November 20, 1900, Nellie S. Drake, born in Custer county, Nebraska, June 8, 1880, died at Bradford Hospital, July 18, 1908, daughter of Ralph Drake, a ranch owner of Elm Creek, Nebraska, born March 13, 1848, son of Lorenzo Dow Drake. Ralph Drake married Cordelia Wood, a native of Nebraska. Children of Samuel M. (2) and Nellie S. (Drake) Flem- ing : Bernice E., born in Degolia, September 4, 1901; Margaret D., in Degolia, October 12, 1906: Nellie S., at Bradford Hospital, July 3, 1908.
KIMMEL-COYNE The Kimmel family, whose members were famous in the history of Germany, was founded in the United States by Tobias Musser Kimmel, born in Germany, in 1805, died in Struthers, Ohio, in 1875. He emigrated to the United States and settled in Coitsville, Ohio, where he followed farming. His tilling of the soil was abundantly rewarded and he became a man of considerable substance. He and his wife were members of the Meth- odist Episcopal church. He married Lydia Smith, born in Mercer county, Pennsylvania, died in Coitsville, Ohio, in 1864. Children: I. Joseph, passed his life on the home farm, where he died. 2. Abraham, of whom further. 3. Smith, a farmer, died in Youngstown, Ohio; married Julia Strouble ; children : Martin, lives in Poland, Ohio; David, lives in North Jack- son, Ohio; and several others. 4. William, a blacksmith, died in Hubbard, Ohio; married Jane Kirk, deceased; children : William (2),
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Maud, Calvin, Kirk. 5. John, died on the homestead in Coitsville, Ohio; married Maria White, deceased; children: Luella, Amy. 6. Dwight, a farmer, died in Illinois ; married and had one child. 7. Musser, died on the home farm in Coitsville, where his wife, Maud ( Gisie ) Kimmel, still lives; children : Harry, Wilbur, deceased; Julia; both the living chil- dren reside on the home farm. 8. Mary, mar- ried D. Stevens, a retired farmer, and lives in Hubbard, Ohio; children: John, Alberton, Mand; the first two live in Hubbard, Ohio. 9. Sarah, died in Youngstown, Ohio; married William Armstrong, deceased, a farmer ; chil- dren : Inez, lives in Youngstown, Ohio; Mott, lives on a farm near Niles, Ohio. 10. Ruth, died in Youngstown, Ohio; married Luther Stevens. deceased, a carpenter; two children. ( II) Abraham, son of Tobias Musser and Lydia (Smith) Kimmel, was born in Youngs- town, Ohio, March 6, 1825, died in Ohio, in 1906. He obtained his education in the public schools and in his late years followed the blacksmith's trade. At the outbreak of the civil war he enlisted from his home state and was engaged in much active service, until cap- tured and confined in the Confederate prison at Andersonville. He was at one time an ardent Republican, but later changed his affili- ation and became a Democrat. He once held the office of justice of the peace. In religion he was a firm supporter of the belief of his fathers and belonged to the Methodist Epis- copal church, as did his wife.
He married, in Pymatuning, Mercer county, Pennsylvania, December 28, 1844, Elizabeth McCord, born in Greenville, Pennsylvania, June 26, 1818, died in Struthers, Ohio, April 10, 1875. Her father, Robert McCord, a sur- geon in the war of 1812, was born in West- moreland county, Pennsylvania, 1791, died in Brookfield, Ohio, May 1, 1872; her mother, Elizabeth (Snyder) McCord, was born in Westmoreland county, died near Greenville, Mercer county, Pennsylvania. Their children were : William, married Elizabeth Carmichael, and is a farmer in Iowa; Robert, died young ; Thomas, died young : Joseph, married and lives on a farm in Iowa; Elizabeth, of previous mention.
Children of Abraham and Elizabeth ( Mc- Cord) Kimmel: 1. Viola A., of whom further. 2. Albert, born November 16, 1848, died Sep- tember 20, 1849. 3. Alfred, twin of Albert, died 1849. 4. Adelaide, born in Coitsville,
Ohio, July 21, 1850; married, August 17, 1869, Isaac Williams, a farmer, born in Coitsville, Ohio, in 1846, now deceased ; children : Nellie, born in Hubbard, Ohio, June 23, 1872, died June 25, 1872; Nettie, twin of Nellie, died June 25, 1872; Chrisse, born October 2, 1874, died same day ; Etta ; Elsie Dale ; Howard, and Harrie. 5. Margaret, born in Coitsville, Ohio, June 25, 1853; married William Carpenter, born in Youngstown, Ohio, where they live; they had one daughter, died when six years of age. 6. Mary, born in Coitsville, Ohio, October 25, 1855; married William Sharp, born near Edenburg, Ohio, lives in Poland, Ohio; children: Elsie, born in Poland, October 22, 1874; Edward, a carpenter, lives in Youngs- town, Ohio; Emil, lives in Youngstown, Ohio ; Kimmel, lives at home ; Dorothy, lives at home. 7. Albin, born in Coitsville, Ohio, March 21, 1860, died in Struthers, Ohio, February 3, 1893, an employee in a sheet mill; married Mary Ditmore, born near Lowellville, Ohio; children : Albin (2) and Ralph, living in Lowellville, Ohio, with their mother.
(III) Viola A., daughter of Abraham and Elizabeth (McCord) Kimmel, was born in Youngstown, Ohio, November 7, 1846. She obtained her education in the public schools of Coitsville, Ohio. After her marriage she moved to Bradford, Pennsylvania, where she is an earnest and devoted member of the Hill Memorial United Brethren Church.
She married, in Sharon, Mercer county, Pennsylvania, October 1, 1868, John Coyne, born in Montreal, Canada, March 23, 1847, died in Bradford, December 1, 1910. John Coyne was a contractor, doing a large business in Ohio and Pennsylvania. In 1870 he settled in Bradford, where he was living at the time of his death. He was the son of Thomas Coyne, born 1816, died near Grove, New York, April 29, 1898, who emigrated from France to Montreal, Canada. Thomas Coyne married Isabel Ferguson, born in 1820, died in Grove, August 22, 1883. Children of Thomas and Isabel (Ferguson) Coyne: 1. Jeannette, born 1845; married Steven Nicholson, deceased. a railroad employee, and lives in Chicago, Illi- nois ; children: John; Patrick, deceased; Jo- seph; Mary: the three living children are in Chicago, Illinois. 2. John. before named. 3. Duncan, a farmer, born in Canada, 1849. died November 11. 1909: married Bridget Crowe, of Fayetteville, Steuben county, New York, who lives in Grove, New York. 4. Wil-
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liam, a teamster, born in Canada, May, 1854, died in Bradford, Pennsylvania, July 8, 1893; married, in Ridgway, Pennsylvania, Ellen Sullivan, born in Ireland, March 16, 1863; children : Mary, born October 8, 1883; Mar- garet, August 19, 1886; John, September 3, 1890, died December 30, 1891; Helen, born January 9, 1892. 5. George, born in Canada, November 14, 1856; a railroad employee in Bradford, Pennsylvania ; married Ellen Luby, of Ridgway, Pennsylvania, born August 22, 1863; children : Margaret, born in Bradford, Pennsylvania, May 24, 1884; Thomas, born in Ridgway, Pennsylvania, April 22, 1886; Mich- ael, Ridgway, May 9, 1888; Florence, Ridg- way, April 2, 1890; Francis, twin of Florence ; Helena, born in Ridgway, April 26, 1892; Mary, born in Bradford, April 18, 1897. 6. Mary, born in Canada, 1857, where she died.
Children of John and Viola A. (Kimmel) Coype: 1. Elver, born in Warsaw, Pennsyl- vania, October 24, 1869, died in Fayetteville, New York, October 24, 1870. 2. Dolly, born in Warsaw, Pennsylvania, March 9, 1873; married, August 21, 1894, Frank Cathan, an upholsterer, of Bradford, and lives in Ballston Spa, Saratoga county, New York ; child, Ethel, born July 4, 1898. 3. May, born near Andover, New York, January 27, 1875; married Ford O. Williams, a carpenter, of Youngstown, Ohio; children: Cyril, born July 4, 1902 ; Ralph, born 1904; Edna, born 1911. 4. Anna, born near Andover, New York, July 20, 1876; married Joseph Madigan, of Bradford, and lives in West Chicago, Illinois, where he is a hammersmith ; child, Jack, born 1909. 5. Edna, born in Bradford, Pennsylvania, August 25, 1878; married Clifford Stevens, a grocery clerk, of Bradford ; child, Josephine, born July 31, 1901. 6. Thomas, born in Bradford, Janu- ary 13, 1880, died April 1, 1880. 7. Lillian, born in Bradford, April 5, 1883; married Christopher Burke, of Bradford, an express agent at Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania. 8. Viola, born in Bradford, September 14, 1888; lives with her mother.
This family is supposed to be REDFIELD of English origin. It is hard- ly possible to doubt this ; yet the name is very rare in England, almost non- existent. In 1860 it was stated that no Red- field appeared in the directories of London, Liverpool, Manchester, Birmingham, Edin- burgh nor Glasgow. Similar names are found,
though rarely, in old English records, and arms have been granted to a few persons with possibly related names. In America, also, there is an obscurity about the name in the early days, where it seems to have been changed in the second generation from Redfin, almost as uncommon in England as Redfield, to Redfield, the evidence being conjectural, but strong, from the early records. The following account can- not be in all points guaranteed with the same confidence as is possible in some families, but is probably correct, and accords with the rec- ords so far as they carry the matter.
(I) William Redfin, the founder of this family, died about May, 1662. He was prob- ably one of the early immigrants from England to Massachusetts. By 1639 he occupied a house and four acres of land on the south side of the Charles river, about six miles from Boston. He sold this place in September, 1646, and from that time his name disappears from the Massachusetts records. With some of his neighbors he probably joined the stream of mi- gration to Pequot, now New London, Connec- ticut. The first certain evidence of his pres- ence there is on May 29, 1654, at which time he had already built a house. The change of name to Redfield seems to have begun at New London, about the time of his death. He mar- ried Rebecca -, who survived him. Chil- dren: 1. Lydia, married (first) January 10, 1655-56, Thomas Bayley, (second) in 1676, William Thorne. 2. Rebecca, died August 16, 1670; married, December 12, 1661, Thomas Roach. 3. James, of whom further. 4. Judith, died April 30, 1678; married, June 17, 1667, Alexander Pygan.
(II) James Redfield, son of William and Rebecca Redfin, was born, it is supposed, about 1646, and was living in 1719. In 1662 he bound himself for five years to learn the trade of tanning. About a year before the expiration of his time his master removed and he became free. For a short time he lived at New Lon- don. In 1671 he was an inhabitant of Martha's Vineyard, and five years later was living at Saybrook, where he remained at least ten years. By 1693 he removed to Fairfield, Con- necticut. He married (first) at New Haven, in May, 1669, Elizabeth, daughter of Jeremy How, who was born in 1645. (second) at Fair- field, Deborah, daughter of John Sturgis. The order of his children is not quite certain, nor is it in every case certain by which wife. Chil- dren : Elizabeth, born May 31, 1670; Sarah,
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married Daniel Frost; Theophilus, of whom further ; Margaret, baptized October 7, 1694; James, baptized October 25, 1696, died in 1743, probably thrice married.
(III) Sergeant Theophilus Redfield, son of James Redfield, was born about 1682, died February 14, 1759. He was a joiner. He probably settled, soon after coming of age, at Killingworth, Connecticut, in the part now called Clinton. About 1718 he moved to North Killingworth, now Killingworth. He is called Sergeant Redfield. He married, December 24, 1706, Priscilla, daughter of Daniel and Lydia Greenel, who was born about 1689, died Janu- ary 12, 1770. Every one of his children had a family. Children : 1. Daniel, born September 22, 1707, died January 11, 1758 ; married Eliza- beth 2. Elizabeth, born May 8. 1709, died in 1742; married, February 3, 1731-32, Josiah Hull. 3. Richard, of whom further. 4. Ebenezer, born December 3. 1713. died January 4, 1766; married, No- vember 30, 1741, Hannah Colton. 5. Lydia, born February 9, 1715-16, died December 16, 1784: married (first) February 21, 1737, Joseph Hodgkin, (second) November 15, 1753, Levi Leete. 6. Theophilus, born September 6, 1718, died January 30, 17 -; married (first) September 4, 1740, Mary Buell, (second) in December, 1749, Martha Gray. 7. Priscilla, born July 20, 1720, died January 12, 1770; married, October 15, 1740, Joseph Bradley. 8. Peleg, born April 2, 1723, died December 5, 1760 ; married, April 25, 1744, Sarah Dudley. 9. George, born November 7, 1725, died May 30, 1812 ; married (first) in 1750, Trial Ward, (second) January 8, 1767, Abigail Stone. 10. William, born December 5, 1727, died in July, 1813; married, January 8, 1755, Elizabeth Starr. 11. Josiah, born September 6, 1730, died August 6, 1802; married, December 8, 1757, Sarah Parmelee. 12. Jane, born June 24, 1733, died May 24, 1762 ; married, January, 1753, Samuel Crane. 13. James, born March 29, 1735, died April 3, 1788; married Sarah Grinnell.
(IV) Richard, son of Sergeant Theophilus and Priscilla (Greenel) Redfield, was born June 18, 1711, died February 2, 1771. His home was at Killingworth, and he was a sea captain. He recognized the church covenant in 1725. He married (first) June 23, 1735, Mary, daughter of George and Esther Chat- field, (second) Wilcox. Children by first wife: 1. Eliphalet, born July 24, 1736;
married, June 15, 1767, Anna Stannard. 2. Priscilla, born March 12, 1739; married, Octo- ber 10, 1759, Rufus Hardy. 3. Reuben, born June 21, 1742, died young. 4. Abigail, born September 21, 1743, died December 25, 1779; married William Pendleton. Children by sec- ond wife: 5. Reuben, of whom further. 6. Richard, born April 6, 1768, died March 26, 1851 ; married (first ) Phebe Loper, (second) Lucy Brown.
(V) Reuben, son of Richard Redfield, was born at Killingworth, January 8, 1766, died at Eden, Erie county, New York, January 8, 1835. He lived at Highgate, Vermont, on the international boundary, and in several other places in that vicinity, and removed to Eden about 1832. He married, at Castleton, Ver- mont, about 1788, Elizabeth Jocelyn, who died February 4, 1829. Children : 1. Hervey, died young. 2. Harriet, died in March, 1854; mar- ried William Reynolds. 3. Almeria, married Elias Isham. 4. Alzira, born in 1798, died August 3, 1851 ; married, in 1821, John Jaquays. 5. William Villeroy, married, March 22, 1821, Delana Barr. 6. Elizabeth Jocelyn, born No- vember 21, 1802, died July 25, 1840; married, April 1, 1823, John Proper. 7. Lucy, died young. 8. Horner Johnson, married, Septem- ber 17. 1844, Ruth Merrill. 9. Horace Linzy, of whom further.
(VI) Horace Linzy, son of Reuben and Elizabeth (Jocelyn) Redfield, was born at Highgate, Vermont, December 23, 1809, died at Eden, December 23, 1849. Eden was his home and he was a physician there. He mar- ried, April 28, 1838, Clarissa Jane, daughter of Edwin and Mary W. Forbes, born at Erie, Pennsylvania, June 16, 1816, died in Washing- ton, D. C. For a time after her husband's death she lived at Jasper, Marion county, Tennessee. Children : 1. Edwin Forbes Linzy, born April 22, 1842, died in Texas ; lived south ; served in the Confederate army; married and had children : Henry L. and Maud, both resid- ing in Dallas, Texas. 2. Horace Victor Eugene, of whom further. 3. Caroline Clarissa, born December 15, 1849, died January 11, 1850.
(VII) Horace Victor Eugene, son of Horace Linzy and Clarissa Jane (Forbes) Redfield, was born at Eden, December 23, 1845, died in Washington, D. C., November 17, 1881. IIe was a newspaper correspondent; at one time being the Washington correspondent for the Cincinnati Commercial. For a time he lived at Chattanooga, Tennessee, and there was an
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alderman. He was a Republican. Both he and his wife were communicants of the Epis- copal church. He married Jeanette, daughter of Byron D. and Harriet (Holmes) Hamlin, who was born at Smethport, Mckean county, Pennsylvania. Children: 1. Harriet Forbes, born at Smethport, August 4, 1874; married Mellville Gillett (see Gillett V). 2. Horace Hamlin, of whom further. 3. Scott Forrest, born in Washington, October 5, 1879; married Caroline Larned, of Syracuse, New York ; he is a publisher, and their residence is at Smeth- port; children: Scott Forrest, born May 31, 1908 ; Janet, born August 29, 1910.
(VIII) Horace Hamlin, son of Horace Victor Eugene and Jeanette (Hamlin) Red- field, was born in Chattanooga, Tennessee, January 10, 1878. His schooling was begun at Smethport and afterwards continued at Au- gusta, Georgia. From the public school he was sent to St. John's Military School, Manlius, New York, and thence to Hobart College, which he left, however, in 1898. From 1900 to 1907 he was in the hardware business at Smethport. Having sold this business to Daly & Garlick he went into banking at Eldred, Pennsylvania, and elsewhere. But he has re- tained his residence at Smethport to the present day. He is president of the First National Bank at Eldred; director in the Hamlin Bank & Trust Company, Smethport, and the First National Bank at Bradford, Pennsylvania; a member of the advisory board of the First Mortgage, Guarantee & Trust Company, Phila- delphia : and formerly was a director of the Grange National Bank, Smethport. He is a thirty-second degree Mason, belonging to Cou- dersport Consistory ; Zem Zem Temple, Nobles of the Mystic Shrine, Erie, Pennsylvania ; Mc- Kean Lodge, No. 388, Free and Accepted Ma- sons ; Phoenix Chapter, No. 15, Eastern Star. His clubs are the Central, Smethport; the Bradford and the Country Club, Bradford. Mr. Redfield is a Republican. For five years he has been school director of the borough of Smethport, and has served one term as council- man in that borough. At this time he is a candidate for the Pennsylvania assembly. He is a communicant of St. Luke's Episcopal Church, Smethport.
He married, October 10, 1900, Grace Emily, daughter of Frederick A. and Emily Leona (Huenerfeld) McCoy, who was born at Elli- cottville, New York, April 1, 1878. She is a graduate of the Smethport high school, in the
class of 1895. She is a member of Smethport Chapter, No. 15, Eastern Star. In connection with St. Luke's Church, of which she is a com- municant, she is a member of St. Christopher's Guild. Her father is a druggist at Smethport, son of Stephen and Eliza McCoy. Emily Leona, born at Ellicottville, February 3, 1855, was the daughter of Peter Joseph and Emily (Riggs) Huenerfeld. Peter J. Huenerfeld was born at Cochem, Prussia, September 18, 1818, son of Paul and Mary (Gillis) Huener- feld. Emily Riggs, daughter of John and Melenza (Litchfield) Riggs, was born at North Adams, Massachusetts, March 26, 1827. Chil- dren of Peter Joseph and Emily (Riggs) Huenerfeld, all born at Ellicottville : 1. Louise, born April 21, 1849 ; married H. B. Drown. 2. Jeanette, born October 12, 1852 ; married C. B. Greene. 3. Emily Leona, mentioned above. 4. Mary, born October 21, 1858; married R. V. Hixson. Children of Horace Hamlin and Grace Emily (McCoy) Redfield: 1. Hamlin Delano, born at Smethport, January 17, 1902. 2. Robert Horace, born at Smethport, March 12, 1905. 3. Louise, born at Smethport, March 16, 1909.
The clan Armstrong was ARMSTRONG famed in Scotland for courage and patriotism. Scott, in the "Lay of the Last Minstrel," makes the chief say, when about to assemble the clans for some daring enterprise :
Ye need not go to Liddisdale, For when they see the blazing bale Eliots and Armstrongs never fail.
The family tradition is that the name was originally bestowed upon a Highland chief for his great courage and physical powers. An- other and better authenticated tradition is that the name Armstrong is derived from the fol- lowing circumstances: "An ancient king of Scotland, having his horse killed under him in battle, was immediately remounted by Fair- baim, his armor bearer, who took the king by the thigh and placed him in the saddle, although heavily weighted by armor. For this timely assistance and feat of strength, the king amply rewarded him with lands on the border ; gave him the name of Armstrong, and assigned him for crest an armed hand and arm; in the left hand a leg and foot in armor couped at the thigh all proper."
The Armstrongs were early settlers in Con-
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necticut and New Hampshire, in the latter state settling in Londonderry, and coming from Londonderry, Ireland. Stephen Arm- strong settled in Windham, Connecticut, in 1710, while an earlier settler was Gregory Armstrong, of Plymouth, Massachusetts, who died in 1650.
(I) The line of descent of the Armstrongs of Smethport, Pennsylvania, is from Benja- min Armstrong, of Norwich, Connecticut, who died January 10, 1719. He married Rachel -, and had sons : Benjamin, John, Joseph, Stephen.
(II) John, son of Benjamin and Rachel Armstrong, was born December 5, 1678, at Norwich, Connecticut, died March 21, 1749. He married, January 18, 1710, Anne Worth. He had seven sons: John, Preserved, Hope- still, James, Thomas, Jeremiah, Ezra, and six daughters.
(III) Hopestill, son of John and Anne ( Worth) Armstrong, was born in Norwich, Connecticut, October 15, 1713. He married, December 22, 1737, Rebecca Durkee, and had six sons: Tibbeus, Solomon, Hopestill, Pele- tiah, James, Zephaniah, and two daughters. It is from one of these six sons that the Smeth- port family descend. The name of their grand- father not having been preserved, the connec- tion cannot be definitely shown. The sons of Hopestill Armstrong scattered, some settling in Vermont, thence coming to New York state. (IV) Armstrong, grandfather of
Alvin Backus Armstrong, although very young, served in the war of the revolution, as did two of his brothers. After the Wyoming massacre he was sent north with a reconnoitering party. and was so pleased with the country around Seneca Lake, New York, that after peace was restored he made permanent settlement there. He was a farmer, married and both he and wife lived to advanced ages, members of the Presbyterian church. Children: 1. Martin, died in New York City, a merchant, suffering the loss of his store in the great fire of 1837; married and left issue. 2. George, died in Seneca county. 3. John, died young and un- married, a victim of the cholera. 4. Caroline, died in Waterloo, New York; married a Mr. Moore and left issue. 5. Alexander McLane, of whom further.
(V) Alexander McLane Armstrong was born in Seneca county, New York, in 1809, died in Kansas, at the home of his daughter, in 1893. He was educated in the public school
and resided in Seneca county until 1834, when he moved to Cuba, Allegany county, New York. He was a cabinetmaker and followed his trade in Cuba until 1849, and in Rushford and Houghton, New York, and in 1861 went to Mount Pleasant, Iowa. He was a most excellent mechanic and one whose services were always in demand. He was a Republican, and a member of the Presbyterian church. He
married Julia Ann Backus, born in 1813, died in Mount Pleasant, Iowa, 1863, only child of Joseph Backus, born in Massachusetts, 1788, a shoemaker and old time music teacher. He died in East Rushford, New York, in 1853. He married Elizabeth Reynolds, born in Massa- chusetts, died in Nunda, Livingston county, New York. Her brother. Philetus Reynolds, died in Cuba, New York, where he held a posi- tion on the Genesee Valley canal. Both Alex- ander Armstrong and his wife were of deeply religious temperament, taking an active part in church work, both being devout Presby- terians, he leader of the choir. Children, nine in number, six dying in infancy and childhood, three here of mention: 1. Alvin B., of whom further. 2. Martin Luther, whose sketch fol- lows. 3. Ally, born in Rushford, New York, 1856; married James L. Anderson, a farmer of Beloit, Kansas, whom she survives, a resident of Denver, Colorado; children: Ruby, resides with her mother in Denver ; Marian, resides in Seattle, Washington ; Ethel, resides in Oregon, and three others, names unknown.
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