Boston of to-day; a glance at its history and characteristicsWith biographical sketches and portraits of many of its professional and business men . was junior warden of De Molay Com-mandery, and past grand commander of St. OmeiCommandery. Mr. Apollonio was a man of pro-nounced character, and his genial qualities madehim many friends. He took a broad view of hu-manity, and his position afforded frequent opportu-nities of doing kindly acts which he loved to was married first to Miss Sarah Gibbs, Oct. 29,1840; and second, on May 20, 1869, to CarolineA. Drowne, daughter of the Hon. Daniel P
Boston of to-day; a glance at its history and characteristicsWith biographical sketches and portraits of many of its professional and business men . was junior warden of De Molay Com-mandery, and past grand commander of St. OmeiCommandery. Mr. Apollonio was a man of pro-nounced character, and his genial qualities madehim many friends. He took a broad view of hu-manity, and his position afforded frequent opportu-nities of doing kindly acts which he loved to was married first to Miss Sarah Gibbs, Oct. 29,1840; and second, on May 20, 1869, to CarolineA. Drowne, daughter of the Hon. Daniel P. Drowne,of Portsmouth, His children were : Lydia A.,Nicholas T., T., Spencer M., and ThorntonD. .\pollonio. Armstrong, George W., born in Boston Aug. 11,1836, is a direct descendant of Charles RobertArmstrong, one of the original Scotch settlers ofLondonderry, , whose ancestors were of theScottish lowland clan .Armstrong, dwelling near theEnglish border on the Debatable Land ; his fore-fothers emigrated from Scotland to the north ofIreland, whence he came to America. The fatherof George W. was David Armstrong, born in Wind-. C/ C^^/7^y77-}t)^^^^ KOSlON OF lO-DAY. 29 ham, , and his mother was Mahalia (Lovering)Armstrong, a descendant of Governor Edward Wins-low. He was educated in the Boston public schools,and is one of the old Hawes School bovs. Inhis fourteenth year he was obliged, by the severeillness of his father, to leave school, and was soonthrown upon his own resources. His first work wasthat of a penny-postman, and his district was thewhole of South Boston. He was next employed onthe South Boston Gazette, the Sunday News,and as a newsboy in State street. In the autumn of185 I his father died. In March the fallowing yearhe became a newsboy on the Boston & Albany Rail-road, and at this work he was employed for nineyears. Afterwards, for several months, he was en-gaged on the railroad in various positions, as brake-man, as baggage-master, as sleeping-
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