ARMSTRONG, DWIGHT LE ROY: 1854-1927.
Le Roy Armstrong was born in Plymouth, Ind., on May 13, 1854, the son of Augustus G. and Ara Strong Armstrong. He was educated in the local schools, entered Indiana University and studied law for a time but gave up study in his seventeenth year to take a newspaper job.
Armstrong left newspaper reporting at Ladoga, Ind., to become editor of the LAFAYETTE [ Ind. ] MORNING JOURNAL in 1896 and continued with it and with the LAFAYETTE DEMOCRAT until 1905, when he removed to Salt Lake City, where he edited the HERALD-REPUBLICAN. Mr. Armstrong was also connected with the daily papers of Chicago for many years.
He died at Salt Lake City on Mar. 29, 1927.
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