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Railroad President Dies.Edwin N. Armstrong, president and receiver of the T. P. W. railroad, and connected with the road since shortly after the close of the Civil War, died Tuesday night at the Proctor hospital in Peoria, aged ] 75 years. Ho joined the Union ] army when a boy 1» years old and was assigned to the lltli Illinois infantry. In the battle of Fort Donaldson he was wounded and left on the battlefield for dead. For more j than one day his body lay on the i ground covered with snow until he { was finally found and taken prisoner j by the Confederates. Later he es- j eaped and after his wounds had healed he again went back to. the j fight and was wounded again at the| battle of Vicksburg. He was made train dispatcher of the T. P. lt;fc W.| in 1872 and had been general passenger agent for several years before he was made president in 1914. His wife, two sons and two daughters survive him. He was a native of New Hampshire but came to IHi-nois in his young manhood.
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La Harpe Quill
La Harpe, Illinois, US
Tue, Aug 02, 1921
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