On May 11, 2018, the Georgia Historical Society Research Center in Savannah accepted the donation of thirty-four items of correspondence written in 1887 to John F. Armstrong and several letters written in 1896 to his daughter, May Armstrong Casey Morrison.

Born in County Sligo in 1845, JF Armstrong left Ireland in 1865 at the age of nineteen. In the United States, he became involved in Irish nationalist and relief organizations and later, the Irish land reform and home rule movements.

John F. Armstrong's obituary was published in the Augusta Chronicle on November 10, 1893. As a well-known leader in the Irish home rule movement in the United States in the 1880s, JF’s death was announced in newspapers throughout the country.

A timeline of JF Armstrong's life from 1891 to 1893.

On May 4, 1887, real estate broker M. F. Kennedy (1844-1923) of Charleston, South Carolina, wrote John F. Armstrong (1845-1893) a letter about a new coercion act under consideration in the London Parliament.

Looking through Irish census returns from 1901 and 1911, I discovered that my great-great-great grandparents, Francis and Anne Leonard Armstrong, spoke both English and Irish.

Daly & Armstrong, a whole sale and retail dry goods store, opened on Broad Street in downtown Augusta, Georgia on October 1st, 1878.

John Francis Armstrong (1845-1893) immigrated to Augusta, Georgia from County Sligo, Ireland in the summer of 1865, shortly before his twentieth birthday.

Documenting sources is an important part of any family history project. A bibliography, or list of references, provides evidence for your research and creates a foundation for further work.

John Francis Armstrong was born near Tubbercurry in County Sligo, Ireland in September of 1845, the first year of the Great Irish Famine (1845-1851).