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This download contains abstracts from the newspaper The Port Byron Globe, 1894-1897, Port Byron, Rock Island County, Illinois; 239 pages.
In addition to covering the town of Port Byron, which is in Rock Island County, the Port Byron Globe published news from the surrounding area including towns in Scott County, Iowa, and additional counties in Illinois including Carroll, Henry, Mercer, and Whiteside counties.
From The Port Byron Globe July 20, 1894
Princeton: GAR meeting items – James B. Armstrong was born in 1831 in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania and died 10 May 1862. He came to Princeton in 1855 and married Ann E. Shaw on 25 November 1860. He served in the Civil War with Company C., 2nd Iowa Cavalry and died at the battle of Farmington. He left his wife and an infant daughter, now Miss Nora Armstrong.
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