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THOMPSON B. DE ARMIT, superintendent, post office Turtle Creek, was born in Hollidaysburg, Pa., Sept. 10, 1856, a son of Alexander and Julia A. (Piper) De Armit, of Pennsylvania. Alexander De Armit enlisted in a Pennsylvania cavalry regiment in the civil war, and was killed in the service. The son moved to Pittsburgh in 1871, and engaged in the tobacco and gents’ furnishing-goods business on Penn avenue; two years later he was employed by Dickson, Stewart & Co., coal operators, as collector. He acquired a knowledge of telegraphy while employed with this firm, and was later on made pay master at their three mines. In 1877 he engaged with the New York & Cleveland Gas Coal company as mine-clerk and telegraph operator at the Plum Creek mine, which position he kept until the death of J. W. Doak, superintendent of the mine, in 1886, when he was promoted to that position. Two years later, upon the resignation of John McIntosh, superintendent of the Turtle Creek (Oak Hill) mines of the same company, he had added to his other position the superintendency of these mines. In 1881 Mr. De Armit married Theodosia, daughter of Emanuel and Nancy (Alter) Stotler, of Penn township, and they have four children: Ella May, Edith Gail, Eugene Stotler and Theodosia Ada. Mr. De Armit is a member of New Texas Presbyterian Church, and is a republican.