“The History of Jefferson County, Wisconsin”, published: Chicago:  
Western Historical Company.   1879.


GEORGE W. ARMSTRONG,  farmer;  P.O. Busseyville; was born in 
Knox Co., Ohio, October, 1820, and after attending school for a short 
time, commenced farming; in May, 1846, he came to Wisconsin and 
located in the eastern portion of Sumner Township, where he pursued 
the occupation of a farmer; in 1848, he went to Missouri and engaged in 
hewing wood until April, 1850, when he returned to Sumner Township, 
where he has since resided; in 1850, he purchased forty acres of ground, 
and, subsequently, sixty-five acres, upon which he made considerable 
improvements; in 1852, he went to California, where he remained until 
the fall of 1857, returning on December 10, when he again engaged in 
farming; in 1874, he sold his farm and went to Missouri in search of a 
good location, but, not being pleased, returned again to Wisconsin; in the 
fall of 1875, he bought a farm of 148 acres in Sumner Township, where 
he at present resides.  In 1877, he married, in Cambridge, Dane Co., 
Mrs. Sarah Olsen; born in Norway in 1853; they have one child – Alice.  
Mr. Armstrong is Independent in politics, and by his own efforts, has 
been very successful in his farming pursuits.


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