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Armfield, Hyatt Jackson

farmer, banker, was born in High Point, N. C., which has always been his home.

He is a successful farmer; president of the National bank of High Point; director of the Greensboro National bank; and is also prominent in various other business enterprises. ARMFIELD, ROBERT FRANKLIN, soldier, lawyer, congressman, was born July 9, 1829, in Guilford county, N. C.

He received a collegiate education; adopted the profession of the law; was county attorney from 1855 to 1861; state solicitor for the sixth district from 1863 to 1865; served in the confederate army as lieutenant-colonel during the war of the rebellion; was president of the state senate and lieutenant-governor in 1875 and 1876; and was elected a representative from North Carolina to the forty-sixth and forty-seventh congresses.