R Jackson Armstrong-Ingram
R Jackson Armstrong-Ingram | |
|---|---|
| Born | April 30, 1954 |
| Died | October 21, 2004 (aged 50) |
R. Jackson Armstrong-Ingram (April 30, 1954 - October 21, 2004) was a freelance writer, author, musicologist, cultural anthropologist and archivist. He was born in 1954 in Belfast, Northern Ireland and came to the U.S. in search of employment. He specialized in gender issues, sexuality, cross-cultural contact and minority religions. He made significant contributions to Bahá’í scholarship writing articles on a variety of subjects.
As a young man he was self educated to such an extent that he was able to obtain a Bachelor of Arts degree in just one year from Goshen College in Indiana, 1978. Two years earlier he had married Karen Eggermont, they had two sons.
He worked as archivist at the U.S. National Bahá’í Archives in Wilmette, Illinois, beginning in 1982. He earned an Archive Certification from the Illinois Historical Society. From there he worked at various places organizing their records and in 1991 set up the St. Joseph County Archives in South Bend, Indiana. He was also adjunct faculty for Indiana University at South Bend, teaching cultural anthropology from 1993-1997.
In 1997 he moved to Carson City, Nevada to work at the Nevada State Archives, becoming the first Electronic Records Archivist of the state in 1999. He briefly worked as Archivist and Records Administrator for the City of Henderson, Nevada before becoming State Archivist for Alaska in 2002. Health problems forced a return to Indiana.
He also composed music, some being performed at the Bahá’í House of Worship in Wilmette.
He died in Henderson, Nevada in October 2004.
Publications[edit]
- 1985 - Singers to the King[1]
- 1988 - Studies in Babi and Bahá’í History: Music Devotions and Mashriq’l-Adhkar
- 1998 - Written in Light: ‘Abdu’l-Bahá and the American Bahá’í Community 1898-1921
- 2002 - Images of America: Henderson
- 2004 - Digital Imaging Guidelines for Nevada Libraries and Archives
References[edit]
- ↑ Collins, W. P. (1990). Bibliography of English-Language Works on the Babi and Bahá'í Faiths 1844-1985. Oxford, UK: George Ronald. ISBN 0-85398-315-1., p 44
