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WILLIAM KING ARMSTRONG, farmer, post-office New Texas, was born in Plum township, in 1828, a son of Thomas and Nancy (King) Armstrong. Thomas was born in 1796; was one of the first in Plum township to support religion and temperance; was a strong abolitionist, and was for many years elder in the Presbyterian Church; he died at the age of seventy-six years; his wife died in 1840, aged thirty-six years. Seven children were born to them: William K., Elizabeth, John, Robert, Nancy, James and Newton (deceased when aged nineteen years). Of these William K. received his schooling here and in Summit county, Ohio, and at twenty-eight years of age started for himself on a rented farm. In 1862 he bought his present farm at orphans’ court sale, and has placed it in fine condition. He married, in 1858, Susan Alter, a daughter of Jacob and Jane Alter, natives of Plum township. They died, the father in 1883, aged eighty-two years, the mother in 1880, aged seventy-seven. Eight children, five of whom are living, were born to Mr. and Mrs. Armstrong: Emma (Mrs. Harry Reiter, residing at East End), Jennie; Newton, a graduate of Washington and Jefferson College, class of 1888, is preparing for the Presbyterian ministry; Samuel, now a student at Duff’s Mercantile College, Pittsburgh, Pa., and Lucinda, at home; Hugh died when aged fourteen years, Allen at the age of two years, and one died in infancy. The family are members of the Presbyterian Church. Mr. Armstrong was a republican, but is now a prohibitionist. His grandfather, James Armstrong, was of Scotch-Irish descent, and his maternal grandfather, Robert King, was an elder in the Presbyterian Church, and died in 1849, aged eighty years; his wife was Nancy Davidson.