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MUSKOGEE AND NORTHEASTERN OKLAHOMA:
Including the counties of Muskogee, McIntosh, Wagoner, Cherokee, Sequoyah, Adair, Delaware, Mayes, Rogers, Washington, Nowata, Craig, and Ottawa. Vol. II.

by John D. Benedict

1922
The S.J. Clarke Publishing Co., Chicago
P. 513

SOLOMON F. ARMSTRONG

For forty years Solomon F. Armstrong has resided in Nowata county and isrecognized as one of the county�s representative agriculturists. A native ofWyandotte county, Kansas, and of Delaware extraction, his birth occurred on the1st of September, 1865, and he is a son of Charles and Mary C. (Secondine)Armstrong. His father came to Nowata county and located at Coodys Bluff in1866, where he was a farmer and stock raiser. He died fifteen years ago. Mrs.Armstrong is now Mrs. Bezion and extended mention of her is made on another pageof this work. She is one of Nowata county�s pioneer citizens and is nowseventy-three years of age.

In 1867 Solomon F. Armstrong came to Coodys Bluff with his grandmother, LucySecondine, and he received his education in a log schoolhouse there. When hewas nineteen years of age he rode the range for the Bar X ranch but after oneyear in that connection enrolled as a student in the Male Seminary at Tahlequah.Completing his course there, he returned home and was shortly afterward married.He subsequently engaged in farming and stock raising near Delaware. Nine yearsago he removed to his present place, one and one-half miles west of Delaware,where he has forty acres. He likewise has oil land, from which he drawsroyalties, and he does pipe fitting for the various oil companies in hisneighborhood. Before statehood Mr. Armstrong was for many years active as anotary public.

In 1886 was celebrated the marriage of Mr. Armstrong to Miss Minnie May, anative of Indiana but a resident of Kansas for many years. They have twochildren. Myrtle R., is the wife of Sam Mattix and their children are Merle,Robert, Zelins, and Samuel A., all of whom are attending school. Ruby D. isMrs. Rubin Sarcoxie and the mother of five children: Floyd, Zella E., Quitaquay,Lillian and Jewel, the first three of whom are attending school.

During the forty years of his residence in Nowata county, Mr. Armstrong has beenan influential factor in the development and improvement of the community andhas attained his present success as the result of intelligently directed effortand innate ability. His home is one of the show places of the country with itshighly cultivated fields and modern home and outbuildings.

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