FORMER ATTORNEY GENERAL WAS FOUND DEAD IN BED AT HIS RUXTON HOME YESTERDAY
Baltimore, Nov. 20 – ALEXANDER ARMSTRONG, former Attorney General of Maryland was found dead in bed at his Ruston home today. He was 62. Associates said Armstrong died of a heart ailment which he had suffered for several years. Armstrong was seriously ill a year ago when his wife died, but had been in better health recently. He spend a quiet day at his home Sunday with no apparent change in his health.
This morning he failed to appear at his usual hour and a member of the family who went to his room found he had died in his sleep.
Armstrong served as Attorney General from 1919 to 1923. In the fall of 1923 he was the Republican candidate for Governor but was defeated by the late Albert C. Ritchie.
Mr. Armstrong was well-known in Fredrick. Formerly of Hagerstown, where he resided when he was elected Attorney General, he later took up his residence in Baltimore and followed the practice of law there. He was a director of the Potomac Edison Co. He was also chairman of the State Board of Law Examiners.
Source: The Frederick Post (Frederick, MD)
Tuesday, November 21, 1939
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Scores of persons prominent in public life attended the last rites for ALEXANDER ARMSTRONG, who died Monday night at his home at Ruxton, held in Rose Hill Cemetery, Hagerstown. The committal service was read by Rev. Dr. Harold N. Arrowsmith, canon of the Pro-Cathedral of Baltimore. Funeral services were held at ten o'clock in the morning in the Protestant Episcopal Pro-Cathedral of the Incarnation in Baltimore.
State and Federal officials and most of the judges of the Federal and State Courts in the State, Governor O'Connor, former Governor Nice, Senator Tydings and many other prominent Marylanders were honorary pallbearers. Honorary pallbearers from Frederick were former Judge Hammond Urner and Judge Edward S. Delaplaine, both of whom attended the funeral.
Source: The Frederick Post (Frederick, MD)
November 25, 1939
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Obituary for his brother below:
The funeral of JOHN G. ARMSTRONG, Detroit manufacturer, who died in Watkins, NY, was held at the residence of his brother, Alexander Armstrong, South Prospect Street yesterday afternoon. Interment was made in Rose Hill Cemetery. Pallbearers were: Norman B. Scott, Ryland Scott, William Bradley, Samuel N. Loose, John E. Stonebraker and Roger L. Jamison.
Funeral services were held in Detroit on Thursday and the remains cremated and the ashes brought to Hagerstown for burial. The funeral here was largely attended.
Source: Daily Mail (Hagerstown, MD)
Monday, April 14, 1924
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Baltimore, Nov. 20 – ALEXANDER ARMSTRONG, former Attorney General of Maryland was found dead in bed at his Ruston home today. He was 62. Associates said Armstrong died of a heart ailment which he had suffered for several years. Armstrong was seriously ill a year ago when his wife died, but had been in better health recently. He spend a quiet day at his home Sunday with no apparent change in his health.
This morning he failed to appear at his usual hour and a member of the family who went to his room found he had died in his sleep.
Armstrong served as Attorney General from 1919 to 1923. In the fall of 1923 he was the Republican candidate for Governor but was defeated by the late Albert C. Ritchie.
Mr. Armstrong was well-known in Fredrick. Formerly of Hagerstown, where he resided when he was elected Attorney General, he later took up his residence in Baltimore and followed the practice of law there. He was a director of the Potomac Edison Co. He was also chairman of the State Board of Law Examiners.
Source: The Frederick Post (Frederick, MD)
Tuesday, November 21, 1939
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Scores of persons prominent in public life attended the last rites for ALEXANDER ARMSTRONG, who died Monday night at his home at Ruxton, held in Rose Hill Cemetery, Hagerstown. The committal service was read by Rev. Dr. Harold N. Arrowsmith, canon of the Pro-Cathedral of Baltimore. Funeral services were held at ten o'clock in the morning in the Protestant Episcopal Pro-Cathedral of the Incarnation in Baltimore.
State and Federal officials and most of the judges of the Federal and State Courts in the State, Governor O'Connor, former Governor Nice, Senator Tydings and many other prominent Marylanders were honorary pallbearers. Honorary pallbearers from Frederick were former Judge Hammond Urner and Judge Edward S. Delaplaine, both of whom attended the funeral.
Source: The Frederick Post (Frederick, MD)
November 25, 1939
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Obituary for his brother below:
The funeral of JOHN G. ARMSTRONG, Detroit manufacturer, who died in Watkins, NY, was held at the residence of his brother, Alexander Armstrong, South Prospect Street yesterday afternoon. Interment was made in Rose Hill Cemetery. Pallbearers were: Norman B. Scott, Ryland Scott, William Bradley, Samuel N. Loose, John E. Stonebraker and Roger L. Jamison.
Funeral services were held in Detroit on Thursday and the remains cremated and the ashes brought to Hagerstown for burial. The funeral here was largely attended.
Source: Daily Mail (Hagerstown, MD)
Monday, April 14, 1924
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FORMER ATTORNEY GENERAL WAS FOUND DEAD IN BED AT HIS RUXTON HOME YESTERDAY
Baltimore, Nov. 20 – ALEXANDER ARMSTRONG, former Attorney General of Maryland was found dead in bed at his Ruston home today. He was 62. Associates said Armstrong died of a heart ailment which he had suffered for several years. Armstrong was seriously ill a year ago when his wife died, but had been in better health recently. He spend a quiet day at his home Sunday with no apparent change in his health.
This morning he failed to appear at his usual hour and a member of the family who went to his room found he had died in his sleep.
Armstrong served as Attorney General from 1919 to 1923. In the fall of 1923 he was the Republican candidate for Governor but was defeated by the late Albert C. Ritchie.
Mr. Armstrong was well-known in Fredrick. Formerly of Hagerstown, where he resided when he was elected Attorney General, he later took up his residence in Baltimore and followed the practice of law there. He was a director of the Potomac Edison Co. He was also chairman of the State Board of Law Examiners.
Source: The Frederick Post (Frederick, MD)
Tuesday, November 21, 1939
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Scores of persons prominent in public life attended the last rites for ALEXANDER ARMSTRONG, who died Monday night at his home at Ruxton, held in Rose Hill Cemetery, Hagerstown. The committal service was read by Rev. Dr. Harold N. Arrowsmith, canon of the Pro-Cathedral of Baltimore. Funeral services were held at ten o'clock in the morning in the Protestant Episcopal Pro-Cathedral of the Incarnation in Baltimore.
State and Federal officials and most of the judges of the Federal and State Courts in the State, Governor O'Connor, former Governor Nice, Senator Tydings and many other prominent Marylanders were honorary pallbearers. Honorary pallbearers from Frederick were former Judge Hammond Urner and Judge Edward S. Delaplaine, both of whom attended the funeral.
Source: The Frederick Post (Frederick, MD)
November 25, 1939
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Obituary for his brother below:
The funeral of JOHN G. ARMSTRONG, Detroit manufacturer, who died in Watkins, NY, was held at the residence of his brother, Alexander Armstrong, South Prospect Street yesterday afternoon. Interment was made in Rose Hill Cemetery. Pallbearers were: Norman B. Scott, Ryland Scott, William Bradley, Samuel N. Loose, John E. Stonebraker and Roger L. Jamison.
Funeral services were held in Detroit on Thursday and the remains cremated and the ashes brought to Hagerstown for burial. The funeral here was largely attended.
Source: Daily Mail (Hagerstown, MD)
Monday, April 14, 1924
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Baltimore, Nov. 20 – ALEXANDER ARMSTRONG, former Attorney General of Maryland was found dead in bed at his Ruston home today. He was 62. Associates said Armstrong died of a heart ailment which he had suffered for several years. Armstrong was seriously ill a year ago when his wife died, but had been in better health recently. He spend a quiet day at his home Sunday with no apparent change in his health.
This morning he failed to appear at his usual hour and a member of the family who went to his room found he had died in his sleep.
Armstrong served as Attorney General from 1919 to 1923. In the fall of 1923 he was the Republican candidate for Governor but was defeated by the late Albert C. Ritchie.
Mr. Armstrong was well-known in Fredrick. Formerly of Hagerstown, where he resided when he was elected Attorney General, he later took up his residence in Baltimore and followed the practice of law there. He was a director of the Potomac Edison Co. He was also chairman of the State Board of Law Examiners.
Source: The Frederick Post (Frederick, MD)
Tuesday, November 21, 1939
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Scores of persons prominent in public life attended the last rites for ALEXANDER ARMSTRONG, who died Monday night at his home at Ruxton, held in Rose Hill Cemetery, Hagerstown. The committal service was read by Rev. Dr. Harold N. Arrowsmith, canon of the Pro-Cathedral of Baltimore. Funeral services were held at ten o'clock in the morning in the Protestant Episcopal Pro-Cathedral of the Incarnation in Baltimore.
State and Federal officials and most of the judges of the Federal and State Courts in the State, Governor O'Connor, former Governor Nice, Senator Tydings and many other prominent Marylanders were honorary pallbearers. Honorary pallbearers from Frederick were former Judge Hammond Urner and Judge Edward S. Delaplaine, both of whom attended the funeral.
Source: The Frederick Post (Frederick, MD)
November 25, 1939
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Obituary for his brother below:
The funeral of JOHN G. ARMSTRONG, Detroit manufacturer, who died in Watkins, NY, was held at the residence of his brother, Alexander Armstrong, South Prospect Street yesterday afternoon. Interment was made in Rose Hill Cemetery. Pallbearers were: Norman B. Scott, Ryland Scott, William Bradley, Samuel N. Loose, John E. Stonebraker and Roger L. Jamison.
Funeral services were held in Detroit on Thursday and the remains cremated and the ashes brought to Hagerstown for burial. The funeral here was largely attended.
Source: Daily Mail (Hagerstown, MD)
Monday, April 14, 1924
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