William S. Armstrong Contributed by: Barbara Walker Winge Email: Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/copyright.htm WILLIAM S. ARMSTRONG William S. Armstrong, of Atlanta, Georgia, was born in that State October 09, 1838. He was graduated M. D. at the University of New York, Medical Department [University Medical College], in 1859. He is Professor of Anatomy and Clinical surgery in the Atlanta Medical College, surgeon to the Grady Hospital, member of the Atlanta Society of Medicine, Medical Society of the State of Georgia, and the American Medical Association. He is also president of the Board of Health of Atlanta, and is regarded as one of the leading medical men of that city. Dr. Armstrong served as assistant surgeon in the Confederate Army during the War. Ref: Stone, R. French, M.D., BIOGRAPHY OF EMINENT AMERICAN PHYSICIANS AND SURGEONS, 1894, Carlon & Hollenbeck, Publishers, Indianapolis, p. 14.