. History of Hamilton County, Ohio, with illustrations and biographical sketches. ay 4, 1817. His earlyeducation was received in the subscription and after-wards in the free schools of his neighborhood. Hepicked up a good deal of information about the businessin the mills, but never became a practical miller. Heremained, as did all surviving sons, with his father, as-sisting in the labors of the mills and the farm also ownedby the father, until about 1850, when the division ofproperty occurred, and the home farm fell to Thomas,who still resides upon it. He had been a farmer for anumber of year
. History of Hamilton County, Ohio, with illustrations and biographical sketches. ay 4, 1817. His earlyeducation was received in the subscription and after-wards in the free schools of his neighborhood. Hepicked up a good deal of information about the businessin the mills, but never became a practical miller. Heremained, as did all surviving sons, with his father, as-sisting in the labors of the mills and the farm also ownedby the father, until about 1850, when the division ofproperty occurred, and the home farm fell to Thomas,who still resides upon it. He had been a farmer for anumber of years when, upon the death of his brotherEdwin, principal manager of the mills, he bought the in-terests of the heirs in that concern and conducted it suc-cessfully for about ten years, or until 1863, the yearbefore that in which his father died, at the same timecontinuing his farm operations, to which he has since de-voted his attention. In 1876 he remodelled and greatlyenlarged the old homestead, which his father had erectedas a frame dwelling in 1820, to which a brick ^M^>m^Al/-/ HISTORY OF HAMILTON COUNTY, OHIO. larger than the original building, was early made, andfinally the additions and reconstruction made by the son,which have converted it into the spacious and handsomemansion it now is. Mr. Armstrong is a man of inde-pendent political views, voting for the most part with theDemocracy; but is by no means a professional politicianor office-seeker, and has filled no public office exceptthat of school director, which he held sixteen or seven-teen years, when he declined the reelection that wasagain offered him. He never belonged to a society ofany kind except the Patrons of Husbandry, the Newtowngrange of which is still maintained. His grandparentswere members of the Methodist church, but all their sonsaccepted the Universalist creed. Mr. T. M. Armstrong,of the third generation, has never been united with any church. Through all his active life, now vergingtowar
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