Biographical Sketch of Marsters E. Armstrong, Franklin County, Missouri

>From "History of Franklin, Jefferson, Washington, Crawford and 
Gasconade Counties", Biographical Appendix, Goodspeed Publishing 
Company, 1888.

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Marsters E. Armstrong, a farmer of Franklin County, and a son of James
and Cynthia A. (Hinton) Armstrong, was born in Franklin County, Decem-
ber 26, 1845.  He was reared on the farm, and educated in the primitive
log school house of forty years ago.  Upon reaching years of manhood he
clerked in a store for about two years.  In 1869 he married Miss Martha
E. Walton, a native of this county and the daughter of Hamden O. Walton.
After marriage Mr. Armstrong moved to Saline County, where he farmed 
until 1871, after which he moved back to Franklin County, and has made
it his home ever since.  The same year his wife died, and three years
later he married Mary E. Bridges, also a native of Franklin County,
born January 28, 1855, and the granddaughter of H. O. Walton.  One
daughter, Martha L., was the result of his first marriage, and three
sons the result of the second marriage.  They are named as follows:
Edwin E., Charles L. and Hamden C.  After farming until 1881 Mr. Arm-
strong opened a store in Beemont, which he ran for about six years,
having a very liberal patronage.  Finding the confinement irksome he
returned to farming, and now has a farm of seventy-two acres.  He is
a stanch Democrat, and for three years held the position of deputy
assessor.  He and wife are members of the Missionary Baptist Church, 
as was also his first wife.  He is a man of good business qualities, 
and, with the exception of about two years, has made Franklin County
his home.  In 1864 he volunteered in Company D, Forty-seventh Missouri
Infantry (United States Army), and served until the close of the war.

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