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SAMUEL ARMSTRONG
Originally published in 1900 |
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SAMUEL ARMSTRONG, the popular and well known undertaker of
Union Hill, is the son of James Armstrong, a native of Ireland, who came
to America when very young, and who served four years in the War of the
Rebellion as a soldier in a New Jersey regiment of volunteers. His mother
was Mary Ann Carr, whose strength of character and intellectual attainments
in every way equaled those of her husband. Mr. Armstrong was born in Edgewater, N. J., on the 5th of April, 1861, and there received his early education in the public schools. Leaving Edgewater at the age of thirteen, he went to Ridgefield, in the same State, where he remained for ten years, being for five years the sexton of the Protestant Episcopal Church of that town. During this period he also became a church or pipe organist of no mean ability. In 1884 he removed to Orange, N. J., and a little later to Jersey City Heights, where he was married, in 1885, to Miss Margaret Allgaier, of West New York, Hudson County. In the meantime he was learning the business of undertaker, embalmer, and funeral director with Henry E. Taylor, one of the best known and most successful undertakers of New York City. Later, having mastered every detail of the profession, he became the manager of the undertaking establishment of Mrs. Caroline Gschwind, of Union Hill, N. J., where he took up his residence. In this position he developed those active energies and business attainments which have marked his subsequent career, and which have won for him a wide popularity and an honorable reputation. In September, 1889, he opened an undertaking establishment for himself at 213 Bergenline Avenue, Union Hill, which he still conducts. He also has an office at 317 Humboldt Avenue, in the same town, and resides at 510 Palisade Avenue. As an undertaker, embalmer, and funeral director, Mr. Armstrong has achieved success and popularity. By his own efforts and untiring industry he has built up an extensive business. He is a man of recognized ability, public spirited, enterprising, and progressive, and liberally encourages every worthy movement. Deeply interested in the welfare of the community, he has contributed to its institutions, and enjoys the respect and confidence of his fellowmen. His popularity is best illustrated by the fact that, at St. Augustine's fair in 1895. he won a gold medal and in 1894 a goldheaded cane offered by the Dispatch for the most popular man in Hudson County. In politics he is an ardent and influential Republican. In 1892 he was a candidate for County Coroner on the party ticket, and, though defeated, received a large and flattering vote. He is a member of Mystic Tie Lodge, No. 123, F. and A. M., of West Shore Council, R. A., of Palisade Lodge, K. of P., of Garfield Council, Jr. O. U. A. M., of Court Palisade, F. of A., of the Royal Society of Good Fellows, of the Uniformed Rank, K. of P., of Germania Schuetzen Bund of West New York, of Ellsworth Post, Sons of Veterans, of the Independent Schuetzens of Union Hill, of Mohawk Tribe, I. O. R. M., and of the Klondike Bowling Club. In all of these he is popular and prominent, and in every capacity he has achieved success and honor.
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