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Chapter 6 – David W. and

Sarah (Treadway)

Armstrong & Family

(Original signature)

* The image at the right is a business directory and layout of the village
of Parma, MI, likely printed during the 1850s. The picture overlay
represents grandfather David's role as a frontier doctor. The two names
highlighted at the lower left are that of C. Armstrong (Chester),
identified as a shoe and leather dealer, and D. W. Armstrong (David),
listed as a M.D. 116

Elliott and Eleanor's seventh son, David Wing, is my great-great
grandfather. Grandfather David was born August 13, 1807 in
Shoreham, Addison County, VT. 129, 149, 150, and 151 David was a medical
doctor and practiced that profession for most of the remainder of his
life. It is believed he began his medical schooling at Castleton, VT,
attending a school which was affiliated with Middlebury College (VT),
which served as the degree conferring institution. In 1827, he was a
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Junior at Middlebury but never completed his studies there; 153
probably due to Castleton’s loss of their Middleton affiliation at the
end of that year. He did, however, complete his schooling, receiving Middlebury College, VT
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his degree in Essex County, NY, on Sep. 30, 1829. Photo taken April 1998

After his marriage to Sarah M. Treadway in Shoreham in April 1830, 149, 150, and 151 he lived for a period of time
near the Au Sable River in a mining town called Peru, in Clinton County, NY. It is believed he may have practiced
medicine there with another doctor for several years 9, CR-3 . His first two children, Jerome and Sarah, were born
in the area and some family researchers also believe that their daughter Ellen and two other children who died
shortly after birth, where also born there. 149, 150, and 151

Sometime during the period 1836 to 1839, it is believed that he returned to the Shoreham, VT area for a time,
but by 1840 had moved further south and settled in the town of West Haven, VT where his brother Ransom,
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resided. It was also clear that David had inherited his parent’s commitment to continuing the bloodline, as
during this period he fathered at least four of his final five children. Some family researchers believe that their
final child Lillian Carrie was also born in West Haven. 149, 150, and 151 However, I believe she was born after 1850 in
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Michigan, as she is not shown in the 1850 U.S. Census there, and according to a notation in her father’s
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medical account book, she died at 10 am, Sep. 28, 1853.

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