Armstrong, James

Armstrong, James, a Methodist Episcopal minister, was born in Ireland in 1787 or 8, emigrated in childhood, was converted in Philadelphia at seventeen, licensed as local preacher in Baltimore at twenty-four, emigrated to Indiana in 1821 and entered the itinerant ministry, in which he labored with ability and great success until his death, which occurred in Laporte county Sept. 12,1834.-Minutes of Conferences, ii, 344.