Amzi Lewis Armstrong (1827-1910)

Reverend Amzi Lewis Armstrong (1827-1910) was a Presbyterian minister and a director of the First National Bank of Cranbury. He was murdered on November 23, 1910 in Dutch Neck, New Jersey with his wife.

Biography
He was born in August 1827 to Francis Armstrong (1788-1881) and Huldah Poppino in Nichols, Tioga, New York.

He graduated from Princeton University in the class of 1852 then worked as a clerk at the Presbytr of New Brunswick.

On April 22, 1856 he was licensed to preach in New Brunswick, New Jersey. He married Catharine Ann Hoover (1833-1886) on May 10, 1871 in Manhattan. She was previously married to Reverend Thomas D. Hoover (?-1867) of Cranbury, New Jersey. Catharine died on September 16, 1886 and was buried in Westminster Cemetery in Cranbury. He next married Annie Rue (1872-1910) on January 23, 1900.

They were both murdered by John Sears by stabbing on November 23, 1910.

Sears was convicted and sentenced to die in the electric chair on March 10, 1911. Sears was the nineteenth criminal given the electric chair in New Jersey and the first Mercer County, New Jersey resident.

External link

 * Reverend Amzi Lewis Armstrong at Findagrave