George Augustus Armes

George Augustus Armes (May 29, 1844 – December 18, 1919) was a United States Army officer on the staff of Winfield Scott Hancock who commanded Buffalo Soldiers in the Battle of the Saline River and subsequent engagements. He married Lucy Hamilton Kerr (1851–1927), daughter of John Bozman Kerr, on October 14, 1874.

In 1890, Armes became affiliated with the Chevy Chase Land Company, Francis G. Newlands, and the so-called “California Syndicate” of bankers and politicians from San Francisco. A March 1, 1890, article in the Washington Evening Star, “The Big Real Estate Deal,” said, “The extended real estate purchases [958 acres of land] along the line of Connecticut Avenue extended, which have been made through real estate broker Maj. George A. Armes for the California Syndicate, represent an expenditure of over a million and a half dollars. This immense deal is now being consummated as rapidly as the titles can be searched and the deeds made out”. He married Marie Atkinson on December 24, 1910, in Philadelphia.

Armes died on December 18, 1919, in Ventnor City, New Jersey.