John S. Armstrong

John Scarborough Armstrong was an American businessman and real estate developer. He was the co-founder of the former City of Oak Cliff and founder of the town of Highland Park, Texas. Armstrong was also a founder of the State Fair of Texas.
Armstrong was born in 1850, in Nashville, Tennessee, to J. W. and Pauline Armstrong, one of thirteen children. He married Alice J. White in July 1878, in Lancaster, Kentucky. With his brothers, Dr. V. P. Armstrong and Henry C. Armstrong, he established the Armstrong Meat Packing Company, a wholesale grocery business. Around 1906, he purchased land north of Dallas which he planned to develop into a municipality. Armstrong died on April 26, 1908, in Dallas, Texas, and is buried at Oakland Cemetery. He was survived by his wife, Alice J., and two daughters: Mrs. Minnie May Flippen and Mrs. Johnetta Prather. Armstrong's widow and sons-in-law—Edgar Flippen and Hugh Prather continued his work.