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Armstrong, George Dodd

clergyman, author, was born Sept. 15, 1813, in Mendham, N. J. He is a presbyterian clergyman of Norfolk, Va.; and the author of The Summer of the Pestilence; The Doctrine of Baptisms; The Christian Doctrine of Slavery; Theology of Christian Experience; The Sacraments of the New Testament; and The Books of Nature and Revelation, a criticism of the theory of evolution.

ARMSTRONG, GEORGE WASHING- TON, business man, was born Aug. 11, 1836, in Boston, Mass. In 1865 he purchased a local baggage express, and at once organized Armstrong's Transfer, which he soon raised to be a business of importance and magnitude. He owns the news business on the entire Hoosac Tunnel line; and is a director of a number of business corporations.

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