MS 1025 - Armstrong Family Biographical Sketch

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“MS 1025 - Armstrong Family Biographical Sketch.” Finding Aids. BGSU University Libraries, 27 June 2014, lib.bgsu.edu/finding_aids/items/show/2537. Accessed 13 May 2025.
TitleMS 1025 - Armstrong Family Biographical Sketch
Biographical Sketch
Harriet Ann Baldwin Armstrong (1872-1954), was born December 4, 1872, in Weston, the daughter of Edward Baldwin and Harriet Taylor. Harriet married Bolton Stretch Armstrong (1870-1951) in 1901. Bolton was born November 10, 1870, in Peterboro, Ontario, Canada, to Thomas Armstrong (1818-1899) and Mary Ann Carew (1827-1906). He came to the United States in 1892 to visit his cousin Joseph T. Carew in Cincinnati. Joseph hired Bolton into his expanding retail store and when Joseph died in 1914 Bolton became company president of the large and wealthy company. Bolton operated
Mabley & Carew Company for thirty-seven years and became a prosperous Cincinnati businessman. Armstrong was active and prominent in many businesses and organizations. He was a president of the National Retail Goods Association and the Ohio council of Retail Merchants. He was a trustee of the American Retail Federation and a life member of the Republican Club of Hamilton County. Bolton served on an advisory committee of Xavier University and was treasurer of Miami University. Armstrong also was a member of numerous clubs. Bolton died June 15, 1951, in Cincinnati. His wife Harriet died three years later on June 11, 1954, in Cincinnati. She, too, had been an active community participant serving as a member of the Widows and Old Men's Home, Queen City Club, the Cincinnati Club, Cincinnati Women's Club, the Town Club and the Everglades Club of Palm Beach, Florida. She, like her sister-in-law, Fannie Augusta Uhlman Baldwin, enjoyed traveling.