Armstrong, James (2)
Armstrong, James
a Methodist Episcopal minister, was born in Ireland in 1787 or 8, emigrated in childhood, was converted in Philadelphia at seventeen, licensed as local preacher in Baltimore at twenty-four, emigrated to Indiana in 1821 and entered the itinerant ministry, in which he labored with ability and great success until his death, which occurred in Laporte county Sept. 12,1834.-Minutes of Conferences, ii, 344.
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Armstrong, James (1)
a Methodist Episcopal minister, was born in the County of Leitrim, Ireland, Dec. 25,1803, and emigrated to the United States when about twelve years old. In 1827 he entered the Ohio Conference; became a member of the Cincinnati Conference on its organization, and in 1871 superannuated, which relation- he sustained until his death, July 1, 1874. Mr. Armstrong was eminently social and cheerful in disposition, extremely modest, fervent in piety, sound and practical in mind, and a success as a pastor. See Minutes of Annual Conferences, 1874, p. 100; Simpson, Cyclop. of Methodism, s.v.
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Armstrong, James (2)
a Methodist Episcopal minister, was born in 1823. His early life is unrecorded. He entered the Maine Conference in 1854, served efficiently fifteen years, and afterwards sustained a supernumerary and superannuated relation until his death, in Cambridge, Mass., Nov. 22, 1877. As a preacher, Mr. Armstrong was original, able, and eloquent. See Minutes of Annual Conferences, 1878, p. 65.