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MARION COUNTY WEST VIRGINIA
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Submitted to the West Virginia Biographies Project by:
PTyler107@aol.com
February 13, 2000
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The History of West Virginia, Old and New
Published 1923, The American Historical Society, Inc.,
Chicago and New York, Volume II, pg. 128-129
Paul G. Armstrong has been engaged in the practice of law at Fairmont,
judicial center of Marion County, since 1909, and his record attests alike
his professional ability and his personal popularity, for he has built up a
successful general practice and is one of the loyal and progressive citizens
of Fairmont.
Mr. Armstrong claims the old Buckeye State as the place of his nativity,
his birth having at Bannock, Belmont County, Ohio, March 24,1884. He is a son
of John and Martha (Trussel) Armstrong, the former of whom was born in
Belmont County, Ohio, in 1850, and the latter was born at Dallas, West
Virginia, in 1855. Warden and Eliza Armstrong, paternal grandparents of the
subject of this review, were of English ancestry, the respective families
having been founded in America prior to the war of the Revolution.
Paul G. Armstrong acquired his early education in the district schools of
his native county, and in 1904 was graduated from the high school at St.
Clairsville, Ohio. In the following year he entered the University of West
Virginia, in the law department of which he continued his studies two years.
He then became a student in the law department of the Ohio State University,
in the City of Columbus, and there he was graduated as a member of the class
of 1908. February 2,1909, marked the opening of an office at Fairmont, where
he has since continued in active practice and where he has gained status as
one of the representative members of the Marion County Bar. He is a member of
the Marion County Bar Association and the West Virginia Bar Association. he
is also a member of Fairmont Lodge no. 9, A.F. and A. M., of Crusade
Commandery no. 6, Knights Templar, of the Mystic Shrine, and of McDaniel
Lodge of Perfection in the Scottish Rite of Masonry at Wheeling, West
Vriginia. he holds membership in the Cheat Mountain and Allegheny clubs and
the Fairmont Shrine Club, and is a member of the First Presbyterian Church of
Fairmont.
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