Brian Armstrong was born in Flemington, New Jersey, and grew up in Stanton, New Jersey. He received a bachelor’s degree in history and political science from American University in Washington, D.C. He now lives in Mount Laurel, New Jersey. He was president of the South River Historical & Preservation Society for ten years and is now the vice president, Central Region, for the League of Historical Societies of New Jersey. He is an independent historian, researcher and author. In 2015, he cowrote the South River (Arcadia Publishing) with Stephanie Bartz and Nan Whitehead. He frequently writes articles for the Bar Harbor Historical Society in Bar Harbor, Maine, where his mother’s family lived for several centuries. Armstrong lectures throughout the state of New Jersey on local history, World War I, Spanish influenza, Prohibition, women’s suffrage and political history. He is a collector of U.S. Presidential election memorabilia and is a member of American Political Items Collectors (APIC).