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Jan 30, 1839 Maui, Hawaii, United States Died on 11 May 1893 (aged 54)
Union Army general
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About Samuel C. Armstrong
- Samuel Chapman Armstrong (January 30, 1839 – May 11, 1893), the son of Hawaiian missionaries, rose through the Union Army during the American Civil War, to become a General leading units of African American soldiers.
- He became best known as an American educator, founding and becoming the first principal of the normal school for African-American and later Native American pupils in Virginia which later became Hampton University.
- He also founded the university's museum, the Hampton University Museum, which is the oldest African-American museum in the country, and the oldest museum in Virginia.
