Eli A. Armstrong, who is engaged in general farming on section 10, in the town of Leicester, Clay County, was born in Jackson county, Ohio, February 5, 1859, and is a son of John and Lucy Anna (Garrett) Armstrong. He spent his youth upon a farm in his native state and attended the subscription schools, pursuing his studies in a little frame schoolhouse in Scioto township, where the methods of teaching were primitive and where the pupils sat upon rude benches. School was held about three months in the year and he had to walk a distance of three miles to school. It was in such an environment that E. A. Armstrong spent his youthful days.
His mother died when he was a lad of but thirteen years and he then went out to work as a farm hand. By hoeing corn at twenty-five cents per day he earned the money that bought him the first pair of shoes which he secured for himself. He afterward worked by the month for some time and at the age of seventeen years made his way to Iowa. There he was employed at farm labor at a salary of thirteen dollars per month.
Later he engaged in homesteading in Kansas but gave up his land there and in 1882 removed to Clay County, Nebraska, making the trip across the country to this state in a covered wagon. He had no capital with which to purchase land at the time, so he rented, but afterward bought eighty acres on which was a sod house. He built a straw barn and began developing and improving the property, overcoming all the difficulties and hardships of pioneer life by his persistency of purpose and undaunted energy. He has put all of the buildings upon his place and built all of the fences and he broke the greater part of his land with a team of horses. He did most of his trading in the early days at Harvard and at Hastings and has hauled earn to Harvard, which he there sold for ten cents per bushel. He, too, experienced the hardships occasioned by the drought of 1894, but with perseverance and energy he has passed through the hard times and is now in very comfortable financial circumstances. In the early days it was necessary to burn cornstalks and corn for fuel, as there was no timber within long distances. Mr. Armstrong carried on general farming and also raised Duroc Jersey hogs for many years but now rents his land, leaving the actual work of further developing the fields to others.
Mr. Armstrong was married to Miss Martha Carson, a native of Iowa and a daughter of Edwin Carson. She passed away November 30, 1919, after they had traveled life's journey happily together for many years. She was a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church of Trumbull and her many splendid traits of heart and mind endeared her to a large circle of friends.
Mr. Armstrong also belongs to the Methodist Episcopal Church of Trumbull. He has served on the school board and has filled the office of road supervisor and since age conferred upon him the right of franchise has given his political allegiance at times to the democratic party and at other times has been an independent voter. Fraternally he is connected with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. He possesses many sterling traits of character and all who know him testify to his worth as a citizen, to his reliability and progressiveness as a business man and to his fidelity in friendship.
Hamilton & Clay Counties, Nebraska, Vol. 2, 1921
His mother died when he was a lad of but thirteen years and he then went out to work as a farm hand. By hoeing corn at twenty-five cents per day he earned the money that bought him the first pair of shoes which he secured for himself. He afterward worked by the month for some time and at the age of seventeen years made his way to Iowa. There he was employed at farm labor at a salary of thirteen dollars per month.
Later he engaged in homesteading in Kansas but gave up his land there and in 1882 removed to Clay County, Nebraska, making the trip across the country to this state in a covered wagon. He had no capital with which to purchase land at the time, so he rented, but afterward bought eighty acres on which was a sod house. He built a straw barn and began developing and improving the property, overcoming all the difficulties and hardships of pioneer life by his persistency of purpose and undaunted energy. He has put all of the buildings upon his place and built all of the fences and he broke the greater part of his land with a team of horses. He did most of his trading in the early days at Harvard and at Hastings and has hauled earn to Harvard, which he there sold for ten cents per bushel. He, too, experienced the hardships occasioned by the drought of 1894, but with perseverance and energy he has passed through the hard times and is now in very comfortable financial circumstances. In the early days it was necessary to burn cornstalks and corn for fuel, as there was no timber within long distances. Mr. Armstrong carried on general farming and also raised Duroc Jersey hogs for many years but now rents his land, leaving the actual work of further developing the fields to others.
Mr. Armstrong was married to Miss Martha Carson, a native of Iowa and a daughter of Edwin Carson. She passed away November 30, 1919, after they had traveled life's journey happily together for many years. She was a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church of Trumbull and her many splendid traits of heart and mind endeared her to a large circle of friends.
Mr. Armstrong also belongs to the Methodist Episcopal Church of Trumbull. He has served on the school board and has filled the office of road supervisor and since age conferred upon him the right of franchise has given his political allegiance at times to the democratic party and at other times has been an independent voter. Fraternally he is connected with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. He possesses many sterling traits of character and all who know him testify to his worth as a citizen, to his reliability and progressiveness as a business man and to his fidelity in friendship.
Hamilton & Clay Counties, Nebraska, Vol. 2, 1921
Eli A. Armstrong, who is engaged in general farming on section 10, in the town of Leicester, Clay County, was born in Jackson county, Ohio, February 5, 1859, and is a son of John and Lucy Anna (Garrett) Armstrong. He spent his youth upon a farm in his native state and attended the subscription schools, pursuing his studies in a little frame schoolhouse in Scioto township, where the methods of teaching were primitive and where the pupils sat upon rude benches. School was held about three months in the year and he had to walk a distance of three miles to school. It was in such an environment that E. A. Armstrong spent his youthful days.
His mother died when he was a lad of but thirteen years and he then went out to work as a farm hand. By hoeing corn at twenty-five cents per day he earned the money that bought him the first pair of shoes which he secured for himself. He afterward worked by the month for some time and at the age of seventeen years made his way to Iowa. There he was employed at farm labor at a salary of thirteen dollars per month.
Later he engaged in homesteading in Kansas but gave up his land there and in 1882 removed to Clay County, Nebraska, making the trip across the country to this state in a covered wagon. He had no capital with which to purchase land at the time, so he rented, but afterward bought eighty acres on which was a sod house. He built a straw barn and began developing and improving the property, overcoming all the difficulties and hardships of pioneer life by his persistency of purpose and undaunted energy. He has put all of the buildings upon his place and built all of the fences and he broke the greater part of his land with a team of horses. He did most of his trading in the early days at Harvard and at Hastings and has hauled earn to Harvard, which he there sold for ten cents per bushel. He, too, experienced the hardships occasioned by the drought of 1894, but with perseverance and energy he has passed through the hard times and is now in very comfortable financial circumstances. In the early days it was necessary to burn cornstalks and corn for fuel, as there was no timber within long distances. Mr. Armstrong carried on general farming and also raised Duroc Jersey hogs for many years but now rents his land, leaving the actual work of further developing the fields to others.
Mr. Armstrong was married to Miss Martha Carson, a native of Iowa and a daughter of Edwin Carson. She passed away November 30, 1919, after they had traveled life's journey happily together for many years. She was a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church of Trumbull and her many splendid traits of heart and mind endeared her to a large circle of friends.
Mr. Armstrong also belongs to the Methodist Episcopal Church of Trumbull. He has served on the school board and has filled the office of road supervisor and since age conferred upon him the right of franchise has given his political allegiance at times to the democratic party and at other times has been an independent voter. Fraternally he is connected with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. He possesses many sterling traits of character and all who know him testify to his worth as a citizen, to his reliability and progressiveness as a business man and to his fidelity in friendship.
Hamilton & Clay Counties, Nebraska, Vol. 2, 1921
His mother died when he was a lad of but thirteen years and he then went out to work as a farm hand. By hoeing corn at twenty-five cents per day he earned the money that bought him the first pair of shoes which he secured for himself. He afterward worked by the month for some time and at the age of seventeen years made his way to Iowa. There he was employed at farm labor at a salary of thirteen dollars per month.
Later he engaged in homesteading in Kansas but gave up his land there and in 1882 removed to Clay County, Nebraska, making the trip across the country to this state in a covered wagon. He had no capital with which to purchase land at the time, so he rented, but afterward bought eighty acres on which was a sod house. He built a straw barn and began developing and improving the property, overcoming all the difficulties and hardships of pioneer life by his persistency of purpose and undaunted energy. He has put all of the buildings upon his place and built all of the fences and he broke the greater part of his land with a team of horses. He did most of his trading in the early days at Harvard and at Hastings and has hauled earn to Harvard, which he there sold for ten cents per bushel. He, too, experienced the hardships occasioned by the drought of 1894, but with perseverance and energy he has passed through the hard times and is now in very comfortable financial circumstances. In the early days it was necessary to burn cornstalks and corn for fuel, as there was no timber within long distances. Mr. Armstrong carried on general farming and also raised Duroc Jersey hogs for many years but now rents his land, leaving the actual work of further developing the fields to others.
Mr. Armstrong was married to Miss Martha Carson, a native of Iowa and a daughter of Edwin Carson. She passed away November 30, 1919, after they had traveled life's journey happily together for many years. She was a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church of Trumbull and her many splendid traits of heart and mind endeared her to a large circle of friends.
Mr. Armstrong also belongs to the Methodist Episcopal Church of Trumbull. He has served on the school board and has filled the office of road supervisor and since age conferred upon him the right of franchise has given his political allegiance at times to the democratic party and at other times has been an independent voter. Fraternally he is connected with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. He possesses many sterling traits of character and all who know him testify to his worth as a citizen, to his reliability and progressiveness as a business man and to his fidelity in friendship.
Hamilton & Clay Counties, Nebraska, Vol. 2, 1921
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