BIO: Edmund V. Armstrong, Wyoming Conference, Methodist Episcopal Church, PA & NY

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Chaffee, Amasa Franklin. History of the Wyoming 
Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church. 
New York: Eaton & Mains, 1904, page 273.
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  Armstrong, Edmund V., was born on February 3, 1837, in Albany, N.Y. 
His conversion occurred at fourteen years of age. His education was 
received in the public schools of New York city and Talmage's Lay 
College, in Brooklyn, N.Y. In early life he learned the printer's 
trade, and from 1866 to 1876 was superintendent of a printing office in 
New York. He gave his country three years' service as cavalryman, under 
Generals Kilpatrick, Custer, and Sheridan.
  In early life he felt that he was called to the ministry, but did not 
respond until he was past thirty years of age. Exhorter's and local 
preacher's licenses were given him in 1876, and he joined the Michigan 
Conference in 1877, receiving deacon's orders in 1879 and elder's 
orders in 1881. He was transferred to Wyoming Conference in 1896.
  The following are his pastorates: Michigan Conference, 1876-78, Byron 
Center; 1879-80, Sparta; 1881-82, Grand Haven; 1883-85, Bloomingdale; 
1886-88, Mendon; 1889-90, Kalamazoo; 1891-93, St. Joseph; 1894-95, 
Union City; Wyoming Conference, 1896-1900, Forty Fort; 1901-03, 
Marathon.