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leading roles of The Still Alarm; The Girl I Left Behind Me; and other modern dramas. Armstrong, William, lawyer, congressman, was born Dec. 23, 1783, in Ireland. He was a member of the Virginia house of delegates; in 1833-23 was a member of the board of public works; and in 1820-24 was a presidential elector. In 1835-33 he was a, representative from Virginia to the nineteenth, twentieth, twenty-first and twenty-second congresses. He died about 1860 in Winchester, Va. Armstrong, William, lecturer, author. In 1893-98 he was music critic on the Chicago Tribune. He is the author of Thekla; and An

American Nobleman. Armstrong, William

Dawson, musician, composer, author, was born Feb. 11, 1868, in Alton, 111. He received his education at the Alton public schools and at Shurtleff ege.

great-grandfather was a general in the colonial army in America. Armstrong, William H., army officer, importer, manufacturer, was born May 14, 1844, near Carlisle, England. He was educated in the common schools of Illinois. For many years he was an officer in the United States army and was United States assessor of internal revenue. He is a successful manufacturer and importer of surgical instruments of Indianapolis, Ind. He has been mayor of his city; and president of the board of trustees of the state normal school. He has held high offices in the grand army of the republic, loyal legion and sons of veterans. Armstrong, William Jackson, lecturer, government official, author, was born in 1841 in Warren county, Ohio. In 1863 he graduated

from Antioch

In 1889 he was

elected, to a professorship in Forest Park

university of St. Louis, Mo.; and in 1891-96 he was director of the Shurtleflf school of muIn sic at Alton, 111. 1899-1901 he was president of the Illinois music teachers' association. In 1904 he was one of the solo organists at the St. Louis Louisiana purchase exposition. He is director of music at Shurtleff college and the Western military academy. He is the author of The

Rudiments of Musical Notation; and composer of numerous compositions for the pianoforte, organ, voice, violin and orchestra. Armstrong, William H., lawyer, congressman, was born Sept. 7, 1834, in Williamsport, Va. He was a member of the Pennsylvania state legislature in 1860-61- In 1869-71 he was a representative from Pennsylvania to the forty-first congress. In 1883 he was appointed United States commissioner of railroads. Armstrong, William H., educator, army officer, was born May 16, 1874, in Glasgow, Scotland. He was well educated in the public schools of Boston,

Mass.; attended Phill-

Exeter academy, Massachusetts agricultural college and Boston university; and in 1900 graduated from ips

Harvard university. He was editor on sevcollege publications; and was highest in his class in mechanical and free hand drawing and design. In 1900 he was called to Porto Rico to establish the first industrial schools but was made superintendent of schools instead; and after eral

serving two years he was appointed a lieutenant in the United States army. His great-

college.

In 1870 he was inspector-general of the United States consulates in Europe ; and for the past twenty-five years has been a political speaker and lecturer of reform on socialistic lines. He is the author of Russia and Ni-

coll-

The Masses and the Millionaires; Civil and Religious Li-

hilists



berty; Castelar and Spain; An Artist Historian; The Heroes of Defeat; The Greatest Living Man; Lyrics of the Levant; and other works. Armstrong, William Jessup, clergyman, was born Oct. 39, 1796, in Mendham, N.J. In 1834 he became secretary of the presbyterian board of foreign missions for Virginia and North Carolina; and at the same time was agent of the American board of commissioners for foreign missions for the same district. He was lost in the wreck of the steamer Atlantic.

A

memoir by Henry Read, with a

se-

lection of Dr. Armstrong's sermons, was published in 1853. He died Nov. 27, 1846, at sea. Armstrong, William W., journalist, statesman, was born in Columbiana county, Ohio. In 1854 he purchased the Advertiser of Tiffin, Ohio. In 1853-65 he was secretary of state.

He

next purchased the Plain Dealer, which he edited in Cleveland till 1890. Armstrong-Hopkins, George Franklin, clergyman, missionary, evangelist, author, was born March 35, 1855, in Farmington, Del. He was pastor in 1884-86 at Hurlock, Md.; then in Home Mission in Dorchester county, where two church buildings bear his name. In 1888 he was sent as a missionary to India; and filled several pastorates at Cawnpore, Lucknow, Jabalpore and Baswal. In 1893 he returned to America and brought with him six natives of India for education, two of whom have already returned to India as missionaries. He is now a conference evangelist of Syracuse, N.Y. He is the author of Not How Much, But How Well; and To the Law and' To the Testimony.