〝An Insidious Foe〞 General John Armstrong Jr. lived long enough to be the only member of the Continental Congress to be photographed. The dog seems indifferent to the idea. John Armstrong, Sr. John Armstrong Jr. was born in Carlisle, Pennsylvania to Scots-Irishman John Armstrong Sr. (obviously) and his wife Rebecca Lyon Armstrong (her maiden and married name which meant she didn’t have to get her linens re-monogrammed) on November 25, 1758. Records of his childhood are pretty