Lewis P. Armstrong

Lewis P. Armstrong was physician and surgeon, born on June 28, 1836 in Montgomery County, Indiana.

Immediate Family

Lewis was the son of Samuel Armstrong, a native of New Jersey, and Anna Hilmon of Kentucky. They moved to Montgomery County about 1822 and settled in Union Township. Samuel died in 1839 when Lewis was only three years old. Lewis had three brothers, Benjamin H. (1829-1885), Westley (1954-1964) and Jacob M. (1834).

When Lewis was 8 years old he moved with his mother to Union County, Indiana, then to Cass County. Lewis attended school 3 years at the Logansport Seminary. He followed teaching in Cass and Carroll counties and two terms in Illinois.

Education & Career

In 1859 he began reading medicine with JQ Howell of Mt. Vernon, Indiana. He read two years, then one year with S.F. Landry of Galveston, Indiana. He then attended parts of two terms of lectures at Cincinnati Eclectic Medical College. Armstrong then located for the practice of his profession at Harveysburg in 1863. In 1865 he moved to Marysville, Illinois, and four years afterward returned to Harveysburg. In the term of 1873 and 1874 he attended Miami Medical College, from which he graduated in 1874; then continued his practice at Harveysburg.

General Notes

Armstrong owned 140 acres of land and town property. He was a strong Republican and a Mason. He was married in 1864 to Hannah Towell, daughter of Isaac and Elizabeth Towell. She was born in Orange County, Indiana and was brought by her parents to Montgomery County when she was 3 years old. They were members of the Methodist Episcopal church. They had four children, two boys and two girls.