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Armstrong, William Jessup, D.D an eminent Presbyterian minister, born at Mendham, N. J., Oct. 29, 1796, and graduated at Princeton in 1816, was licensed to preach in 1818. He labored in Trenton and Richmond till 1834, when he became secretary to the Am. Bd. Comm. for Foreign Missions. By the wreck of the steamer Atlantic … Continue reading “Armstrong, William Jessup, D.D”

Armstrong, William (1) an Irish Wesleyan minister, was born at Glaslough, County of Monaghan, probably in 1764.. He was converted in youth, and entered the itinerancy in 1791. After a ministry of eight years he was obliged, by an injury received from his horse, to retire from the work. He died Feb. 20,1837. He was … Continue reading “Armstrong, William (3)”

Armstrong, Sylvester a Methodist Episcopal minister, was born in the State of New York in 1826. No record of his early life is accessible. In 1852 he entered the Troy Conference, and soon afterwards discontinued ministerial work and engaged in secular business. In 1856 he joined the New Jersey Conference. When the Newark Conference was … Continue reading “Armstrong, Sylvester”

Armstrong, Robert Leslie a Congregational minister, was born at Carlisle, Cumberland, England, Nov. 9, 1803. He was religiously educated, but his aversion to religion was very great; he therefore engaged in most of the follies and sins of his time. Removing, however, from Carlisle to Wigton, his manner of life was somewhat changed. He here … Continue reading “Armstrong, Robert Leslie”

Armstrong, Robert an Associate minister, was a native of Midholm, Roxburghshire, Scotland; but the date of his birth is not known. He was educated at the University of Edinburgh, and afterwards studied theology at Whitburn, under the Rev. Archibald Bruce. He was ordained to the ministry June 15, 1797; and shortly afterwards sent to the … Continue reading “Armstrong, Robert”

Armstrong, Richard (2), D.D a missionary to the Sandwich Islands, was born in Northumberland County, Pa., in 1805. He graduated at Dickinson College in 1827, and studied theology at Princeton. In 1832 he went as a missionary to the Sandwich Islands, where he served as minister of instruction, privy- councillor, and president of the Board … Continue reading “Armstrong, Richard (2), D.D”

Armstrong, Richard (1) a Methodist Episcopal minister, was born in Ireland Dec. 25,1775. He experieniced conversion in his twenty-fifth year, and united with the Wesleyan Methodist Church. Soon after he was licensed to preach. In 1812 he emigrated to America, and was four years employed as a missionary in Nova Scotia, under the auspices of … Continue reading “Armstrong, Richard (1)”

Armstrong, Joseph an English Wesleyan minister, was born near Carlisle in 1777. He was converted at the age of twenty-three, and entered the ministry in 1808, preaching the first five years in Wales. Some of his circuits were Worksop, Thetford, Middleham, Ulverstone, Belper, and Poole. In 1836 he became a supernumerary at Tavistock; in 1845 … Continue reading “Armstrong, Joseph”

Armstrong, John W., D.D a Methodist Episcopal minister, was born at Woolwich, England, Sept. 20, 1812. He emigrated with his parents to Quebec, Canada, in 1824; received an early religious training; experienced religion at the age of sixteen; entered Cazenovia Seminary in 1835; became principal of the Nichols Academy, Tioga Co., in 1839; of Red … Continue reading “Armstrong, John W., D.D”

Armstrong, John (2), D.D a bishop of the Church of England, was born at Bishop Wearmouth, Aug. 22,1813. He was educated at Charterhouse School; became Crewe exhibitioner at Lincoln College, Oxford; took his degree of A.B. in 1836; was soon after ordained deacon and priest, and served a curacy in Somersetshire; was afterwards curate of … Continue reading “Armstrong, John (3), D.D”