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• Birth	10 Dec 1843	New London,New London,Connecticut
  Gender	Male
  Person ID	I39934	Brainard (Brainerd) / Foster / Fish
  Last Modified	09 May 2005 00:00:00
  Father	Charles ARMSTRONG, b. 14 Apr 1813, Norwich,New London,Connecticut
  Mother	Lucy Palmer BROWN, b. 26 Feb 1822, No. Stonington,New London,Connecticut
  Family ID	F15953	Group Sheet
  Family	Louise Augusta SMITH, b. 5 Nov 1844, Franklin,New London,Connecticut
  Married	22 Oct 1868	Franklin,New London,Connecticut
  Children	1. Benjamin Latham Lloyd ARMSTRONG, b. 27 May 1870, Lafayette,New Jersey > 2. Luella Shapley ARMSTRONG, b. 26 Jan 1873, New London,New London,Connecticut   3. Marion Prentice ARMSTRONG, b. 27 Jun 1880, New London,New London,Connecticut   4. John Phelps Taylor ARMSTRONG, b. 1 Jul 1882, New London,New London,Connecticut
  Family ID	F17625	Group Sheet

• Notes

  THE BROWN GENEALOGY, Boston, The Everett Press Company 1907, by CyrusHenry Brown, page 78. Mr. Armstrong was educated in the public schools of new London, hisnative city. At the age of twenty-four years he established the businessnow carried on by the Brainerd and Armstrong Co., Silk Manufactures ofNew London, Conn., and for the past thirty-seven years has been bothpresident and treasurer of the company. This company enjoys thereputation of being one of the most successful of the many engaged inthis important industry in the United States, its annual productionamounting to nearly three million dollars. He is one of the principalowners and one of the managing directors of the Nonotuck Silk Co., ofFlorence, Mass., this company doing a business of about six milliondollars per annum; also fo the Corticelli Silk Co., Limited, at St.Johns, Providence of Quebec, Canada, having their own stores in Montreal,Toronto, Winnipeg, and Sidney, Australia. He is president of the G. M. Williams Co., a successful businessenterprise located in New London, Conn.; president of the New London RealEstate and Improvement Co., of the same city; he was one of theincorporators of the Memorial Hospital Association, and its firstpresident; president of the Brainerd Lodge Corporation, vice-priesidentof the National Bank of Commerce for ten years; July, 1904, by unanimousvote chosen president; was president of the New London and Groton SteamFerry Co. for ten years, during which time the old steamer Uncas wasdiscarded and replaced with the modern steamer Colonel Ledyard, nowrunning between New London and Groton. He is said to be the larget ownerof real estate in the city of New London. He has been prisident of theBoard of Water Commissioners for the past eighteen years. Under hisadministration large reservoirs have been built and the entire system ofwater supply had been enlarged and improved, until New London has todayone of the best in the entire country. He enjoys vigous health, that hasenabled him to cary on all these impartant enterprises successfully forso many years. In politics he is a Republican, and has refused allpolitical honors repeatedly offered by his party, both are members of theCongregational Church. Residence in 1904, New London, Conn.