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Uncle of Robert Armstrong.

Daughters: Annabel, Murrel and Elizabeth

Collaborated with writers Wilson Mizner, Winchell Smith and Rex Beach among others on many of his plays.

Had been a licensed master of a steamship on the Great Lakes.

While a newspaper reporter for the "Chicago Record" he wrote sports columns under the name "Right Cross".

After writing "Alias Jimmy Valentine" he tried to adopt and rehabilitate life long criminal James Brown. The experiment failed several months later after Brown was sent to Sing Sing Prison for three years.

Father: Richard Armstrong; Mother: Harriet Scott.