Return to Photo Collections Return to Finding Aid View next item View ARMS Collection Index View Photo Archives Index Contributor: Rhoda Frances (Crago) Brady Inquiries to Marta Burns Collection: Rhoda Frances (Crago) Brady Collection (Code: ARMS) Series: None Item #: ARMS0001 Photographer: No artist/photographer listed. Physical Detail: To Be Added Date: circa 1840s Caption: Abraham Armstrong [1770-1848]

Description / Citation: Portrait of Abraham Armstrong [1770-1848], reported to be the first European born on Muddy Creek in Greene County, Pennsylvania - husband of Ruth (Conwell) Armstrong [1774-1866], son of John Armstrong & Mary Kennedy. Abraham Armstrong was a brother to William Armstrong whose descendants own the original portrait. The Rhoda Frances (Crago) Brady Collection photographs were passed from William Armstrong [1780-1861] and his wife, Elizabeth Russell [1776-1864], to their son Alfred T. Armstrong [1807-1878] and his wife, Helen Mary Davidson [1815-1892], to their daughter Margaret M. Armstrong [1859-1901] and her husband, William C. Elliott [1848-1920], to their daughter Anna Mary Elliott [1883-1974] and her husband, James Thoburn Crago [1882-1940], to their daughter Rhoda Frances (Crago) Brady who owned and with Marta Burns shared the photographs with the Greene Connections: Greene County, Pennsylvania Photo Archives Project in 2007..

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