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WILLIAM T. ARMSTRONG, hotel-keeper, McKee’s Rocks, was born in the north of Ireland, in 1840, and is of Scotch-Irish descent. He came to this country in 1860 but his parents remained in Ireland, where his father still resides, aged seventy-six years and where his mother died in 1887, at the age of seventy-four years. They had eleven children. The living are Andrew, Mary A., Elizabeth, Jane, Catharine (the only one in this county except William T.) and Sarah. Andrew, Mary A. and Elizabeth are in Australia. Mr. Armstrong spent his first three years in this country in the state of New York, working on a farm, though he was a miller by trade; he then came to Pittsburgh, and was employed in the glassworks until his health failed. He possessed a good deal of inventive genius, and was the patentee of some very valuable devices for the construction of glass-furnaces. He still has an interest in the glass business. In consequence of failing health, in 1883 he came to McKee’s Rocks and engaged in the restaurant and saloon business, which he is still prosecuting. In December, 1886, while out hunting, he was accidentally wounded in the arm, which had to be amputated just below the elbow. He was married, in 1871, to Sarah, daughter of William and Elizabeth Crozier, of Allegheny, and their children are Annie E. John (deceased), Andrew, Sarah, William J. and Robert. Mr. Armstrong is a member of the Masonic fraternity and the I. O. O. F. Mr. Armstrong owns a good hotel property at McKee’s Rocks, and is keeping hotel there.