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(1801-1884) |
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(1801-1884) |
Alfred Armstrong
was born on February 14, 1801 in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, the grandson
of Revolutionary War general and founding member of the Dickinson College
board of trustees, John
Armstrong. He attended local schools and graduated from Dickinson
with the class of 1823. A classical scholar, he had a long career
as a schoolteacher and tutor.
Armstrong was a teacher and principal at a long series of academies throughout central Pennsylvania, in Bellefonte, Wilkes-Barre, Harrisburg, Columbia, and Hollidaysburg. He was appointed as the principal of Williamsport Boys High School in 1865. In 1871, he left teaching and took a post with the United States Post Office in Washington D.C. and remained there until his death. Alfred Armstrong died on October 21, 1884. He was eighty-three years old. |