In a message dated 5/25/99 9:05:06 PM Eastern Daylight Time, AnnetteArm
writes:
I am interested in Armstrongs in Clinton County.
Annette Armstrong Meier
Hi Annette,
I am cross posting this to the Clinton County maillist.
The following Armstrongs are included in the Clinton County portion of the
Portrait & Biographical Record of Boone and Clinton County Indiana published
in 1895.
Edmond, Elbert, and Robert Armstrong are included in a biography of Augustus
F. Clark on pages 617-619
Mary Armstrong is included in a biography of John Irwin Clark on pages 619-621
Caroline Armstrong is included in a biography of Thomas Jefferson Smith on
page 862
Those biographies have been transcribed and are online at:
http://www.rootsweb.com/~inclinto/chris.html
Eliza and Isaac Armstrong are included in a biography of Dr. James W.
Meridith on page 800. I have transcribed that biography below:
DR. JAMES W. MERIDITH,
The most successful dental surgeon in Frankfort, Ind., was born near
Flem-ingsburg, Ky., September 16, 1831.
His parents were William R. and Harriet (Davis) Meridith, the former of whom
was a native of Maryland and the latter of Kentucky. William R. Meridith was
but a young man when he migrated from Maryland to Kentucky, engaged in
farming, and in 1830 was married to Miss Davis, a native of Fleming county.
In 1836 Mr. Meridith and his young wife went to Calloway County, Mo., where
he superintended a farm until 1837, then came to Madison, Ind., where he
lived a short time, and then moved to Morristown, Shelby County, Ind., where
he died in 1839-the father of five children; viz.:
James Wayne, our subject: George D., deceased; Albert L.; Fletcher, an editor
of Hutchinson, Kas. and Tabitha, deceased. Mrs. Harriet Meridith
subsequently married, in Morristown, William Adair, a farmer, by whom she
became the mother of one child, John T., now deceased, the mother dying in
1853.
Dr. J. W. Meridith remained on the farm until eight years of age, then worked
out at chores, helping to support the family until his mother's second
marriage. The family then located in Union County, Ind., for a year, then
moved back to Shelby County, where he remained until sixteen, and then
apprenticed himself at cabinetmaking for four years with A. C. Cooly, of
Connersville, Ind. The last two years of his apprenticeship his mother
passed with him. January 16, 1853, the doctor was married, near Versailles,
Woodford County, Ky., to Missouri J. Boling, a native of Woodford County, who
bore one child, Jane (deceased), and she herself died June 16, 1855. The
second marriage of Dr. Meridith took place at Frankfort, Ind., March 30,
1858. to Miss Eliza J. Armstrong, a native of Clinton County, and a daughter
of Isaac Armstrong. of whom further mention will be found elsewhere in this
volume. To this union have been born nine children, named as follows: Hettie,
deceased; Jennie, wife of William T. Moore, merchant of Williamsport, Ind.;
Georgie, a teacher in a city school of Frankfort; Lu A., jeweler; Carroll,
Katie, Watt, Gus and Fletcher, at home. Dr. Meridith acquired the science of
dentistry under Dr. Martin, of Franklin, Ind., and began its practice in the
city of Frankfort, May 3, 1856, and, with the exception of nine years. when
engaged in the dry goods trade, has been in active practice until the present
time, standing at the head of the profession. As a member of the I. 0. 0.
F., he represented his lodge in the grand lodge of the state in 1861, and has
been honored with many other evidences of the high esteem in which he is held
by his fellow-citizens.
Transcribed by Chris Brown from page 800 of "A Portrait And Biographical
Record of Boone and Clinton Counties, Ind.," published in 1895 by A.W. Bowen
& Co. Chicago.