R Jackson Armstrong-Ingram
From Bahaikipedia
R. Jackson Armstrong-Ingram 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 before he had married Karen Eggermont, they had two sons.
He worked as archivist at the U.S. National Bahá’í Archives in Wilmette, IL, 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, IN. He was also adjunct faculty for Indiana University at South Bend, teaching cultural anthropology from 1993-1997.
In 1997 he moved to Carson City, NV 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, NV 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, IL.
He died in Henderson, NV in October 2004
Titles:
- Studies in Babi and Bahá’í History: Music Devotions and Mashriq’l-Adhkar 1988
- Written in Light: ‘Abdu’l-Bahá and the American Bahá’í Community: 1898-1921 1998
- Images of America: Henderson 2002
- Digital Imaging Guidelines for Nevada Libraries and Archives 2002
