N. Y. Armour, a cousin of P. D. Armour of Chicago, died on his own doorstep at Westmoreland. N. Y.
The Kenyon Leader Oct. 4, 1894
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Rome Semi-Weekly Citizen
September 26, 1894
Coroner Nock was summoned to the home of Nichols N. Armour, four and one-half miles south of Rome, on the road leading from Rome to Westmoreland, at about 3 am Sunday to inquire into the cause of his death. Mr. Armour for about a week had suffered greatly from inflammation of the bowels, but he would have no doctor in the house to attend him as he did not believe in them. Friday night he complained to his sister Catherine of terrible pains in the region of his bowels, and shortly before 12 o'clock he got out of his bunk and went into the woodshed. After he had been gone about three-quarters of an hour his sister started to look for him and found his dead body in the door way leading from the woodshed to the back yard. He had opened the door to go out when he dropped dead. He also suffered from hernia, which had become misplaced.
May 29 Mr. Armour's sister Mary, aged 70, left the house to empty a pan of dishwater. She became bewildered and wandered onto the adjoining farm, where her dead body was found on the afternoon of the Friday following. The only surviving member of the family is Catherine, aged 72, who lived with her brother. Neither of the three ever married. Mr. Armour was a man of much learning, and was considered to be quite wealthy. He would drive to Rome very often and from his appearance one would think that he had not a dollar he could call his own. He wore a heavy fur cap, summer as well as winter, and would be burdened with a seemingly surplus amount of clothing. He wore a scarf about his head to protect his ears and face, for the reason, he said, because he suffered greatly from neuralgia. He was a very eccentric old gentlemn, courteous to all, and was never known to do any person a wrong. His peculiar tastes were as noticeable about his home as his person, and he was the subject of much comment, but for this he cared naught. He was quite an expert at phrenology, and a great many persons would go to him and have their head examined, just out of curisotiy. Romans would drive over to his place and call on him and his sisters, and all who called were requested to register their names in a large book which he kept for that purpsoe. This book he was very proud of.
Mr. Armour's age was 66 years 8 months and 10 days. For about five years he was a justice of the peace of the town of Westmoreland. He was a son of Nicholas Armour, who came to this country from Ireland in 1816 and was born in the town of Westmoreland. He first found employment under Judge Nathan Williams at Utica, and later moved to Westmoreland, where the dead man and his sisters have lived all their lives. Mr. Armour recently said he did not know whether his family was related to the Armour of Chicago or not, but he believed he was distantly connect with them. He said that his father and P. D. Armour of Chicago looked enough alike to be twin brothers.
The Kenyon Leader Oct. 4, 1894
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Rome Semi-Weekly Citizen
September 26, 1894
Coroner Nock was summoned to the home of Nichols N. Armour, four and one-half miles south of Rome, on the road leading from Rome to Westmoreland, at about 3 am Sunday to inquire into the cause of his death. Mr. Armour for about a week had suffered greatly from inflammation of the bowels, but he would have no doctor in the house to attend him as he did not believe in them. Friday night he complained to his sister Catherine of terrible pains in the region of his bowels, and shortly before 12 o'clock he got out of his bunk and went into the woodshed. After he had been gone about three-quarters of an hour his sister started to look for him and found his dead body in the door way leading from the woodshed to the back yard. He had opened the door to go out when he dropped dead. He also suffered from hernia, which had become misplaced.
May 29 Mr. Armour's sister Mary, aged 70, left the house to empty a pan of dishwater. She became bewildered and wandered onto the adjoining farm, where her dead body was found on the afternoon of the Friday following. The only surviving member of the family is Catherine, aged 72, who lived with her brother. Neither of the three ever married. Mr. Armour was a man of much learning, and was considered to be quite wealthy. He would drive to Rome very often and from his appearance one would think that he had not a dollar he could call his own. He wore a heavy fur cap, summer as well as winter, and would be burdened with a seemingly surplus amount of clothing. He wore a scarf about his head to protect his ears and face, for the reason, he said, because he suffered greatly from neuralgia. He was a very eccentric old gentlemn, courteous to all, and was never known to do any person a wrong. His peculiar tastes were as noticeable about his home as his person, and he was the subject of much comment, but for this he cared naught. He was quite an expert at phrenology, and a great many persons would go to him and have their head examined, just out of curisotiy. Romans would drive over to his place and call on him and his sisters, and all who called were requested to register their names in a large book which he kept for that purpsoe. This book he was very proud of.
Mr. Armour's age was 66 years 8 months and 10 days. For about five years he was a justice of the peace of the town of Westmoreland. He was a son of Nicholas Armour, who came to this country from Ireland in 1816 and was born in the town of Westmoreland. He first found employment under Judge Nathan Williams at Utica, and later moved to Westmoreland, where the dead man and his sisters have lived all their lives. Mr. Armour recently said he did not know whether his family was related to the Armour of Chicago or not, but he believed he was distantly connect with them. He said that his father and P. D. Armour of Chicago looked enough alike to be twin brothers.
N. Y. Armour, a cousin of P. D. Armour of Chicago, died on his own doorstep at Westmoreland. N. Y.
The Kenyon Leader Oct. 4, 1894
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Rome Semi-Weekly Citizen
September 26, 1894
Coroner Nock was summoned to the home of Nichols N. Armour, four and one-half miles south of Rome, on the road leading from Rome to Westmoreland, at about 3 am Sunday to inquire into the cause of his death. Mr. Armour for about a week had suffered greatly from inflammation of the bowels, but he would have no doctor in the house to attend him as he did not believe in them. Friday night he complained to his sister Catherine of terrible pains in the region of his bowels, and shortly before 12 o'clock he got out of his bunk and went into the woodshed. After he had been gone about three-quarters of an hour his sister started to look for him and found his dead body in the door way leading from the woodshed to the back yard. He had opened the door to go out when he dropped dead. He also suffered from hernia, which had become misplaced.
May 29 Mr. Armour's sister Mary, aged 70, left the house to empty a pan of dishwater. She became bewildered and wandered onto the adjoining farm, where her dead body was found on the afternoon of the Friday following. The only surviving member of the family is Catherine, aged 72, who lived with her brother. Neither of the three ever married. Mr. Armour was a man of much learning, and was considered to be quite wealthy. He would drive to Rome very often and from his appearance one would think that he had not a dollar he could call his own. He wore a heavy fur cap, summer as well as winter, and would be burdened with a seemingly surplus amount of clothing. He wore a scarf about his head to protect his ears and face, for the reason, he said, because he suffered greatly from neuralgia. He was a very eccentric old gentlemn, courteous to all, and was never known to do any person a wrong. His peculiar tastes were as noticeable about his home as his person, and he was the subject of much comment, but for this he cared naught. He was quite an expert at phrenology, and a great many persons would go to him and have their head examined, just out of curisotiy. Romans would drive over to his place and call on him and his sisters, and all who called were requested to register their names in a large book which he kept for that purpsoe. This book he was very proud of.
Mr. Armour's age was 66 years 8 months and 10 days. For about five years he was a justice of the peace of the town of Westmoreland. He was a son of Nicholas Armour, who came to this country from Ireland in 1816 and was born in the town of Westmoreland. He first found employment under Judge Nathan Williams at Utica, and later moved to Westmoreland, where the dead man and his sisters have lived all their lives. Mr. Armour recently said he did not know whether his family was related to the Armour of Chicago or not, but he believed he was distantly connect with them. He said that his father and P. D. Armour of Chicago looked enough alike to be twin brothers.
The Kenyon Leader Oct. 4, 1894
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Rome Semi-Weekly Citizen
September 26, 1894
Coroner Nock was summoned to the home of Nichols N. Armour, four and one-half miles south of Rome, on the road leading from Rome to Westmoreland, at about 3 am Sunday to inquire into the cause of his death. Mr. Armour for about a week had suffered greatly from inflammation of the bowels, but he would have no doctor in the house to attend him as he did not believe in them. Friday night he complained to his sister Catherine of terrible pains in the region of his bowels, and shortly before 12 o'clock he got out of his bunk and went into the woodshed. After he had been gone about three-quarters of an hour his sister started to look for him and found his dead body in the door way leading from the woodshed to the back yard. He had opened the door to go out when he dropped dead. He also suffered from hernia, which had become misplaced.
May 29 Mr. Armour's sister Mary, aged 70, left the house to empty a pan of dishwater. She became bewildered and wandered onto the adjoining farm, where her dead body was found on the afternoon of the Friday following. The only surviving member of the family is Catherine, aged 72, who lived with her brother. Neither of the three ever married. Mr. Armour was a man of much learning, and was considered to be quite wealthy. He would drive to Rome very often and from his appearance one would think that he had not a dollar he could call his own. He wore a heavy fur cap, summer as well as winter, and would be burdened with a seemingly surplus amount of clothing. He wore a scarf about his head to protect his ears and face, for the reason, he said, because he suffered greatly from neuralgia. He was a very eccentric old gentlemn, courteous to all, and was never known to do any person a wrong. His peculiar tastes were as noticeable about his home as his person, and he was the subject of much comment, but for this he cared naught. He was quite an expert at phrenology, and a great many persons would go to him and have their head examined, just out of curisotiy. Romans would drive over to his place and call on him and his sisters, and all who called were requested to register their names in a large book which he kept for that purpsoe. This book he was very proud of.
Mr. Armour's age was 66 years 8 months and 10 days. For about five years he was a justice of the peace of the town of Westmoreland. He was a son of Nicholas Armour, who came to this country from Ireland in 1816 and was born in the town of Westmoreland. He first found employment under Judge Nathan Williams at Utica, and later moved to Westmoreland, where the dead man and his sisters have lived all their lives. Mr. Armour recently said he did not know whether his family was related to the Armour of Chicago or not, but he believed he was distantly connect with them. He said that his father and P. D. Armour of Chicago looked enough alike to be twin brothers.
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