ARMSTRONG, J. CROSBY
J. Crosby Armstrong, a member of the Armstrong real estate firm at Wharton, has been a prominent factor of Wharton county's business and agricultural affairs for a number of years. He opened the first business in the town of Louise and is still identified with the larger prosperity of that place.
He was born in Camden, Wilcox County, Alabama, January 3, 1874, a son of Robert A. and Bessie (Crosby) Armstrong. Both parents were born in Alabama, and the mother died in 1889. Robert A. Armstrong has been actively identified with the above-mentioned real estate business at Wharton since it was established in 1900. In his earlier years he was an Alabama farmer, served as tax collector in Monroe County, and on coming to Texas in 1882 engaged in the lumber business, which he continued until 1900. He owns considerable farming land in Wharton County. He has been a deacon of the Baptist church and superintendent of its Sunday school ever since he took up his residence in Wharton.
J. Crosby Armstrong attended public school at Wharton and then learned the lumber business in his father's establishment. In 1892 he opened the lumber yard at Louise, which was the first commercial enterprise of the village, and he also conducted a hardware store there. In January, 1896, placing a man in charge of the business, he went to Waco and took a course in Hill's Business College. He returned to Wharton to take charge of his father's office and conducted the business until it was sold in 1900. In the employ of the Gifford Mercantile Company he established the hardware and lumber business at Glen Flora, this being likewise the first enterprise at that place. On resigning that he took up rice culture at Louise, and he has the distinction of raising the first crop of rice in Wharton County. His farm at Louise still takes much of his attention. At the present time he is using it to demonstrate the practicability of raising hogs on peanuts. In the fall of 1907 he took the management of the Embry plantation, twelve miles east of Wharton, but in February, 1908, resigned in order to engage in the real estate business at Wharton with his father and brother.
Mr. Armstrong is a Democrat in politics, is deacon in the Baptist church at Louise, and is a member of the Modern Woodmen of America. He married, in 1897, Miss Nellie R. Davis. Her father, W. C. Davis, was from Iowa. Mrs. Armstrong died January 14, 1907, the mother of five children: Nellie, Raymond, Wilma, Davis and Minnie Maud. Historical Review of South-East Texas and the Founders, Leaders and Representative Men, Vol 2, by Dermot Hardy and Maj. Ingham S. Robert, by The Lewis Publishing Company, Chicago, 1910 -
J. Crosby Armstrong, a member of the Armstrong real estate firm at Wharton, has been a prominent factor of Wharton county's business and agricultural affairs for a number of years. He opened the first business in the town of Louise and is still identified with the larger prosperity of that place.
He was born in Camden, Wilcox County, Alabama, January 3, 1874, a son of Robert A. and Bessie (Crosby) Armstrong. Both parents were born in Alabama, and the mother died in 1889. Robert A. Armstrong has been actively identified with the above-mentioned real estate business at Wharton since it was established in 1900. In his earlier years he was an Alabama farmer, served as tax collector in Monroe County, and on coming to Texas in 1882 engaged in the lumber business, which he continued until 1900. He owns considerable farming land in Wharton County. He has been a deacon of the Baptist church and superintendent of its Sunday school ever since he took up his residence in Wharton.
J. Crosby Armstrong attended public school at Wharton and then learned the lumber business in his father's establishment. In 1892 he opened the lumber yard at Louise, which was the first commercial enterprise of the village, and he also conducted a hardware store there. In January, 1896, placing a man in charge of the business, he went to Waco and took a course in Hill's Business College. He returned to Wharton to take charge of his father's office and conducted the business until it was sold in 1900. In the employ of the Gifford Mercantile Company he established the hardware and lumber business at Glen Flora, this being likewise the first enterprise at that place. On resigning that he took up rice culture at Louise, and he has the distinction of raising the first crop of rice in Wharton County. His farm at Louise still takes much of his attention. At the present time he is using it to demonstrate the practicability of raising hogs on peanuts. In the fall of 1907 he took the management of the Embry plantation, twelve miles east of Wharton, but in February, 1908, resigned in order to engage in the real estate business at Wharton with his father and brother.
Mr. Armstrong is a Democrat in politics, is deacon in the Baptist church at Louise, and is a member of the Modern Woodmen of America. He married, in 1897, Miss Nellie R. Davis. Her father, W. C. Davis, was from Iowa. Mrs. Armstrong died January 14, 1907, the mother of five children: Nellie, Raymond, Wilma, Davis and Minnie Maud. Historical Review of South-East Texas and the Founders, Leaders and Representative Men, Vol 2, by Dermot Hardy and Maj. Ingham S. Robert, by The Lewis Publishing Company, Chicago, 1910 -
ARMSTRONG, J. CROSBY
J. Crosby Armstrong, a member of the Armstrong real estate firm at Wharton, has been a prominent factor of Wharton county's business and agricultural affairs for a number of years. He opened the first business in the town of Louise and is still identified with the larger prosperity of that place.
He was born in Camden, Wilcox County, Alabama, January 3, 1874, a son of Robert A. and Bessie (Crosby) Armstrong. Both parents were born in Alabama, and the mother died in 1889. Robert A. Armstrong has been actively identified with the above-mentioned real estate business at Wharton since it was established in 1900. In his earlier years he was an Alabama farmer, served as tax collector in Monroe County, and on coming to Texas in 1882 engaged in the lumber business, which he continued until 1900. He owns considerable farming land in Wharton County. He has been a deacon of the Baptist church and superintendent of its Sunday school ever since he took up his residence in Wharton.
J. Crosby Armstrong attended public school at Wharton and then learned the lumber business in his father's establishment. In 1892 he opened the lumber yard at Louise, which was the first commercial enterprise of the village, and he also conducted a hardware store there. In January, 1896, placing a man in charge of the business, he went to Waco and took a course in Hill's Business College. He returned to Wharton to take charge of his father's office and conducted the business until it was sold in 1900. In the employ of the Gifford Mercantile Company he established the hardware and lumber business at Glen Flora, this being likewise the first enterprise at that place. On resigning that he took up rice culture at Louise, and he has the distinction of raising the first crop of rice in Wharton County. His farm at Louise still takes much of his attention. At the present time he is using it to demonstrate the practicability of raising hogs on peanuts. In the fall of 1907 he took the management of the Embry plantation, twelve miles east of Wharton, but in February, 1908, resigned in order to engage in the real estate business at Wharton with his father and brother.
Mr. Armstrong is a Democrat in politics, is deacon in the Baptist church at Louise, and is a member of the Modern Woodmen of America. He married, in 1897, Miss Nellie R. Davis. Her father, W. C. Davis, was from Iowa. Mrs. Armstrong died January 14, 1907, the mother of five children: Nellie, Raymond, Wilma, Davis and Minnie Maud. Historical Review of South-East Texas and the Founders, Leaders and Representative Men, Vol 2, by Dermot Hardy and Maj. Ingham S. Robert, by The Lewis Publishing Company, Chicago, 1910 -
J. Crosby Armstrong, a member of the Armstrong real estate firm at Wharton, has been a prominent factor of Wharton county's business and agricultural affairs for a number of years. He opened the first business in the town of Louise and is still identified with the larger prosperity of that place.
He was born in Camden, Wilcox County, Alabama, January 3, 1874, a son of Robert A. and Bessie (Crosby) Armstrong. Both parents were born in Alabama, and the mother died in 1889. Robert A. Armstrong has been actively identified with the above-mentioned real estate business at Wharton since it was established in 1900. In his earlier years he was an Alabama farmer, served as tax collector in Monroe County, and on coming to Texas in 1882 engaged in the lumber business, which he continued until 1900. He owns considerable farming land in Wharton County. He has been a deacon of the Baptist church and superintendent of its Sunday school ever since he took up his residence in Wharton.
J. Crosby Armstrong attended public school at Wharton and then learned the lumber business in his father's establishment. In 1892 he opened the lumber yard at Louise, which was the first commercial enterprise of the village, and he also conducted a hardware store there. In January, 1896, placing a man in charge of the business, he went to Waco and took a course in Hill's Business College. He returned to Wharton to take charge of his father's office and conducted the business until it was sold in 1900. In the employ of the Gifford Mercantile Company he established the hardware and lumber business at Glen Flora, this being likewise the first enterprise at that place. On resigning that he took up rice culture at Louise, and he has the distinction of raising the first crop of rice in Wharton County. His farm at Louise still takes much of his attention. At the present time he is using it to demonstrate the practicability of raising hogs on peanuts. In the fall of 1907 he took the management of the Embry plantation, twelve miles east of Wharton, but in February, 1908, resigned in order to engage in the real estate business at Wharton with his father and brother.
Mr. Armstrong is a Democrat in politics, is deacon in the Baptist church at Louise, and is a member of the Modern Woodmen of America. He married, in 1897, Miss Nellie R. Davis. Her father, W. C. Davis, was from Iowa. Mrs. Armstrong died January 14, 1907, the mother of five children: Nellie, Raymond, Wilma, Davis and Minnie Maud. Historical Review of South-East Texas and the Founders, Leaders and Representative Men, Vol 2, by Dermot Hardy and Maj. Ingham S. Robert, by The Lewis Publishing Company, Chicago, 1910 -
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