From History of Grant County, Wisconsin, 1881, p. 927.

L. G. ARMSTRONG, M. D., born March 7, 1834, in Cortlandville, Cortland Co., N. Y., where he resided with his parents until 5 years old, when the family removed to Groton in Tompkins Co., from there to Whitewater, Wis., in 1845, and in true pioneer style laid his claim, and began opening up a farm, where "the whole time" was occupied in driving breaking-team, building fence and opening stone quarries. In 1852, he entered the State University at Madison, where in due course of time he began the study of medicine, with Prof. S. P. Lathrop as his preceptor, where he remained as much of the time as his means would admit. To recuperate his purse, school-teaching was just to his hand, not neglecting to board around among the scholars. In the early part of 1856, he went to Chicago, where he placed himself under the special care of Profs. Davis and Evans, who furnished him odd jobs of nursing their patients for ready cash. At the commencement of Rush Medical College, February, 1858, he graduated in a class of thirty-one, receiving the first honors of the class in surgery, and second honors in theory and practice of medicine. During the spring of 1858, he went to Palmyra, Wis., and opened an office for the practice of his chosen profession, where he remained until April, 1860, when he came to Fennimore and opened an office on the Military Road, one and a half miles northwest of the present village. In January, 1861, he was married to Miss S. D. Bond, of Milton, Wis., and after the burning of the Gillman Hotel, at which he lost every particle of property he had accumulated, he began houskeeping in the little cottage by the roadside, remaining here faithful to his business until August, 1862, when he volunteered as Second Asst. Surg. of the 8th W. V. I., and was assigned to duty at Corinth, Miss., in care of "wounded rebs." The arduous duties of the position, together with the unsanitary surroundings soon so much reduced his physical condition as to oblige a return to the North to recuperate his strength. After a year he was again able to take the field, this time as First Asst. Surg. of the 6th W. V. I., in the old "Iron Brigade," near White House Landing, in Virginia. Continuing with the regiment until the organization of the 48th Wisconsin, of which he was commissioned as full Surgeon, doing duty with the regiment as Surgeon through all the time the regiment was in the field, and, in addition to his other duties, filling the position of Post Surgeon, at Fort Scott, Kas., until he received orders to disband the hospital and proceed to the plains to establish a line of hospitals along the Arkansas River, extending from Fort Zaroh to Fort Dodge. After the regiment was mustered out of service, he was retained with a detachment of regular troops at Fort Larned, Kan., until relieved in February, 1866. March 5, 1866, he opened an office in Boscobel, for the practice of his profession among his old friends and neighbors, where he has continued without interruption to the present time, building up a first-class practice as a surgeon and physician. In the social circle and the private family, he has many characteristics which are too well known to the inhabitants of Grant County to require any eulogy from the present historian.

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