Santa Cruz County Biographies

THOMAS ARMSTRONG

Submitted by Kathy Sedler

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        Was born in Black Wolf, Winnebago County, Wisconsin, April 9, 1849. His 
father was a farmer and one of the pioneer settlers of this State. The subject 
of this sketch lived on the farm until he was nineteen years of age, during 
which time his advantages for obtaining an education were limited to the public 
schools of the frontier. In 1868 he went to Fayette, Iowa, and engaged in the 
livery business, and in the following year to Minnesota and took up a homestead, 
where he lived for eight years. He came to California in August, 1877, his 
mother having previously moved here. He exchanged his Minnesota farm for Santa 
Cruz property. For a number of years after his arrival in this town he engaged 
in the liquor business, but as it was not pleasant or congenial he disposed of 
it in the spring of 1891, and, together with his wife, spent a few months with 
friends in the East. He has invested in real estate in Santa Cruz, which has 
inured to his profit. Mr. Armstrong is esteemed among his friends for his 
frankness of disposition and kindness of heart. He was married, June 26, 1872, 
to Miss Harriet Titus, of Owalana, Wisconsin. They have had four children, two 
of whom, Edward, aged fifteen, and Catherine, aged thirteen, are living. He is a 
member of the I. O. O. F. and K. of P.
 
HISTORY OF SANTA CRUZ COUNTY, CALIFORNIA.-  E. S. Harrison, 
Pacific Press Publ. Co., San Francisco, 1891