Memorial and Biographical History of Dallas County, Texas. Page: 732 of 1,110

                                
HISTORY OF DALLAS COUNTY.

renders him a deservedly popular man.
Dr. Armstrong was married in 1877, to
Miss Tennie Brymer, daughter of A. R. Brymer
who settled in Texas in 1845. Mr. Brymer
died in 1890, aged eighty-one years..
The Doctor and his wife have one child,
John S.
Dr. Armstrong takes little interest in political
affairs, his attention being wholly occupied
by professional work. He is a member
of the Knights of Pythias, having passed all
the chairs in his lodge. He is at present
advocating the cause of sanitation in the city
of Dallas and exerting his influence to place
the health department of the city upon a
plane with the largest and most prosperous
cities of the East.
L. McDONALD, attorney at law,
Dallas, was born in Grimes county,
l Texas, Jnne 29, 1860, a son of
General J. G. McDonald and Julia (Davis)
McDonald, natives of Tennessee. The father
was an attorney of Grimes county, for many
years, and is still a resident of that county,
aged sixty-six years. He was Brigadier General
of the State troops of Texas during the
late war, but on account of poor health, was
never actively engaged. He took an active
interest in politics, was a member of the
Legislature three terns before the war, and
was District Attorney two terms, of four years
each, his first term being from 1856 to 1860.
The mother of our subject was a member of
the Methodist Episcopal Church South, from
girlhood, and her death occurred October 29,
1886, at the age of fifty-eight years. She
was active in church work, and was universally
admired for her many good qualities
and her amiable traits of character. The

parents reared a family of ten children, seven
of whom are still living, and our subject is
the fifth child in order of birth.
W. L. McDonald, the subject of this
sketch, took an academic course at Patrick's
Academy, at Anderson, receiving two gold
medals for declamation and oratory, and later
took a law and English course at the Texas
University, and in 1885 graduated at the
Southwestern University. He stood the examination
before the Supreme Court of Texas,
in June, 1886, and in July of the same year
began practice at Dallas, under the firm name
of McDonald 
also of the 0. E. S., and Good Samaritans;
of the I. O. O. F.; is Prelate in the
K. of P., Coeur de Lion, No. 8, Dallas; and
is a member of the First Methodist Episcol)al
Church South, of Dallas, in which he has
held the office of Steward for four years. He
has been Superintendent of the Sabbathschool
of the same church for two years,
is first vice-president of the Sunday-school
Superintendents' Association, and is also
an  active  member of the Y. M. C. A.
Is a member of the Texas Literary Associa