Mary Armstrong 1
- Marriage: Rev. Egerton Ryerson
Mary married Rev. Egerton Ryerson.
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Sources
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University of Toronto Press, Dictionary of Canadian Biography, Volume X, 1871-1880, published 1972. page 16
ARMSTRONG, JAMES ROGERS, merchant, foundry owner, and politician; b. 17 April 1787 at Dorchester (Iberville), Que., son of an Irish father, John Armstrong, and Mary Rogers, oldest daughter of loyalist Major James Rogers who commanded a battalion of Kings's Rangers during the American Revolution; d. 13 July 1873 at Whitby, Ont.
After the early death of both his parents, James Rogers Armstrong was in 1796 sent to school in Vermont. He was living in Upper Canada by 1807, when on 9 October he married, at Hallowell (later part of Picton), Hannah Dougall, daughter of William Dougall, a pioneer Prince Edward County doctor.
[career details]
At the age of 69 he moved to Whitby, where he spent the rest of his life, leaving the management of the company to his son James Rogers Armstrong.
[political details]
Armstrong was a prominent member of the Wesleyan Methodist Church, a fact evidenced by the marriage of his daughter Mary to the Reverend Egerton Ryerson (as his second wife) and of his daughter Eleanor to Dr John Beatty, professor at Victoria College. A third daughter, Phoebe Anne, married George DUGGAN, recorder of Toronto and judge of the county of York.
J. K. Johnson, [source details follows]
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University of Toronto Press, Dictionary of Canadian Biography, Volume X, 1871-1880, published 1972.
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