Armstrong, Moses K
surveyor, journalist, statesman, was born Sept. 19, 1832, in Milan, Ohio. He was educated at the Western Reserve college; removed to Minnesota in 1856; was elected surveyor of United States lands; on the admission of Minnesota as a state, removed to Yankton, on the Missouri river; on the organization of Dakota, in 1861, was elected to the first territorial legislature, and re-elected in 1862 and 1863, serving the last year as speaker; was editor of The Dakota Union in 1864; was elected territorial treasurer; appointed clerk of the supreme court in 1865; elected to the territorial senate in 1866; and chosen president in 1867. He published the first history of Dakota in 1867; acted as secretary to the Indian peace commission to the Sioux; and from 1866 to 1009 established the base-lines for United States surveys in southern Dakota, and the northern Red river valley. He was again elected to the territorial senate in 1869; established the first democratic newspaper in the territory; and was chosen president of the First National bank of the territory in 1872. He was elected delegate to the forty-second and forty-third congresses.