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1860s Sauvie Island
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“A people which takes no pride in the noble achievements of remote ancestors will never achieve anything worthy to be remembered with pride by future descendants”
Lord Macaulay
(a British Historian and Politician 1800-1859)
Pioneer of 1852
Daniel Boone Armstrong
1836- 1895
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Daniel was bom to Andrew Jackson Armstrong and Mary Ann Roberts in 1836.
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1852 Heading to Oregon.
Daniel left Illinois on April 1 with four other Armstrong men; his brother, Marquis L, his father, Andrew Jackson Armstrong, a brother, Abner Enyart Armstrong and Evalee Thompson Armstrong.. They all arrived in September and settled on Sauvie Island (Pioneer files at OHS).
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1855 Marriage of Settler.
Daniel married Elizabeth Bonser, daughter of John and Rebecca Bonser. They were married on May 3 at the home of her father. The minister was William Hendrickson, M.G. and the witnesses were James Bonser and Orville Sturgess (Columbia County, Oregon Marriage Records, GFO, pg 1).
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Elizabeth’s sister, Martha, married Daniel’s brother Marquis L.
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1856 Birth of Son.
Charles Armstrong was born to Daniel and Elizabeth during this year (census and family records).
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1860 Columbia Countq, Oregon Census.
Daniel and his family are listed in the 1860 census living in House #116. He is listed as a Carpenter and a Brickmaker.
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After living on the island for awhile the small family moved to the Lewis River settlement in Washington, then to Vancouver where he started a brickyard. Family legend says that the early brick buildings in Vancouver were built by the Armstrongs.
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Their brickyard was established in 1867 and the Hiddens began theirs in 1871.
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Daniel was one of the signers of the petition to separate Washington from Oregon
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1865 Clark County Washington Land Purchase.
Daniel bought land in T2N, R1W from the owner of claim V-88. This claim was in sections 8,9,16, 17 and 21 (Washington Donation Land Claims, Clark County).
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1867 First Successful BrlckYard!
In September Daniel B. established a brickyard near Fruit Valley Rd and 26th St in Vancouver, Washington. Many of the early public buildings in Vancouver were built of this brick. (Vancouver Chronology at the Vancouver Library)
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The first Brick buildings in Vancouver
4th and Main, The Wall Bldg,
The Brewery on C street, (Young),
The Vancouver Seminary
Demphoefster and Proebstel Brewery,
Sisters of Charity Building
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1895/1905 Death of Settler. date uncertain.
Pioneer files at the Oregon Historical Society list Daniel’s death in Calistoga, Napa County, California