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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.