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Armstrong, John, 1848-1940

 Person

Dates

  • Existence: 1848 - 1940

Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

Biography : John Armstrong and wife Mary Hellen Wilson Armstrong, pioneer 1853

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230339514]
Identifier: MSS 2514
Scope and Contents

Photocopy of a microfilm copy of a typewritten biography. John Armstrong was born in England in 1848. His family joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and migrated to Utah in 1853 and later settled in American Fork. He married Mary Helen Wilson. Mary Wilson was born in 1848 in Philadelphia, and she died in 1919. He died in 1940.

Dates: 1940
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / Biography : John Armstrong and wife Mary Hellen Wilson Armstrong, pioneer 1853

William Gannaway Brownlow certificate of appointment

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230309939]
Identifier: MSS SC 1211
Scope and Contents

Printed and signed document dated 25 September 1860 designating John Armstrong as Justice of the Peace in Franklin County, Tennessee.

Dates: 1860
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / William Gannaway Brownlow certificate of appointment

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American Fork (Utah) -- History 1
Autographs 1
Biographies 1
Civil Procedure and Courts 1
Governors -- Tennessee -- Autographs 1
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Immigrants -- Utah 1
Immigration and American Expansion 1
Justices of the peace -- Selection and appointment 1
Latter Day Saint women -- Biography 1
Latter Day Saints -- England 1
Photocopies 1
Pioneers 1
Politics, Government, and Law 1
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