WI BIO - Kenosha Co - ARMSTRONG, B. T.
The City of Kenosha and Kenosha County, WI. Chicago: S. J. Clarke Pub. Co., 
1916, Vol II, pp 709-710

B. T. ARMSTRONG, a popular and prosperous young citizen of Kenosha [Kenosha 
County], WI, actively engaged in business at the head of the Armstrong 
Bicycle Company, handling various makes of bicycles and motorcycles, was born 
in Waukegan [Lake County], IL, 11 Aug 1896. His father, Thomas J. ARMSTRONG, 
who organized the Armstrong Bicycle Company, is now living retired in 
Kenosha, WI. B. T. ARMSTRONG was eight or nine years of age when the family 
home was established in Kenosha, and he attended the common schools of the 
city. He also pursued a course of study in the Kenosha Business College, 
being graduated from that institution in 1912. He then entered the service 
of the Gray Electric Company and remained with that concern four and a half 
years, spending two years in learning the business and a similar period in 
the capacity of [p 710] Manager.

Subsequently B. T. ARMSTRONG went west on a pleasure trip and spent five 
months in traveling over that part of the country. On returning to Kenosha 
he purchased the Armstrong Bicycle Company from his father and has conducted 
the enterprise continuously since, handing numerous makes of bicycles and 
motorcycles and also doing repair work. Success has come to him in this 
connection, and he is widely recognized as one of the enterprising young 
business men of the city. Politically B. T. ARMSTRONG is a nonpartisan, 
considering the capability of a candidate of greater importance than his 
party affiliation. He holds membership in the Congregational church.

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