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Pennsylvania, July 25, 1802; graduated at Washington College. Virginia, in 1825 ; studied at Princeton Theological Seminary i-i 1826; was ordained in 1827, and organized the first Presbyterian church in Danville, \ irginia. in 1827. He removed to Warren- t(in, North Carolina, where he formed a cluirch. and afterward preached in Raleigh. Washington, and New lierne. North Caro- lina, and in I'rince Edward and Charlotte counties, \^irginia. He was pastor of a

istic school. He died in lialtimore, Mary- land, October 22. 1880.

Trimble, Isaac Ridgeway, born in Cul- I>i.l)er county, \'irginia, May 15, 1802. His f;.thcr. John Trimble, removed to Fort Sterl- ing. Kentucky, in 1805. At sixteen, secur- ing an appointment to the United States Alilitary Academy through his uncle Davis, then in congress, he traveled to West Point on horseback, and mostly by night, the country through which he passed being then church in Petersburg, Virginia, 1831-34, and little settled and infested with Indians, in Richmond in 1835-46. Pie founded the Graduating in 1822, he was employed in "Watchman of the South," a religious surveying the military road to the Ohio. He weeklv. in 1837. and for eight years was its loft the army in 1832, entered into business sole editor. In 1838 he was instrumental in a:, a civil engineer, and was chief engineer establishing the Deaf, Dumb and Blind In- successively of the Baltimore and Susque- stitution in Staunton, Virginia. He was hanna, Philadelphia, Wilmington and Balti- pastor of churches in Baltimore, Maryland, more, and Boston and Providence railtoads. 1847-54, and in Allegheny, Pennsylvania, On the outbreak of the civil war he hastened 1855-62, at the same time serving as profes- from Cuba to Baltimore, entered the service sor of didactic and pastoral theology in cf Virginia, and then of the Confederacy, as Western Theological Seminary there. He colonel of engineers ; was sent by Gen. Lee resided in Philadelphia for the next three to construct the defenses of Norfolk and years, was in charge of a Presbyterian J. E. Johnston to close the Potomac by bat- church in Pottsville, Pennsylvania, in 1865- teries at Evansport. As a brigadier-general 66. and became professor of didactic and he had a command under Ewell and Jack- polemic theology in the Theological Semi- son in 1862. was prominent in the valley nary in Columbia, South Carolina. He was campaign, chose the ground at Cross Keys, transferred to the chair of historic, casuistic took part in the seven days' fighting around and pastoral theology in 1875, and held that Richmond, and in the defeat of Gen. Pope, office until a few months previous to his and with two regiments took Manassas death. He was moderator of the general Junction, with all the supplies and ammuni- assembly of the Presbyterian church in tion there. August 27, an exploit highly 1838. and of the southern branch of that commended by Gen. Jackson, to the com- body in 1871. He received the degree of niand of whose division he succeeded when D. D. from Princeton, Lafayette, and Wash- J.ickson was put at the head of a corps. The ir.gton colleges in 1838, and that of LL. D. day after this service he was wounded at from the University of Mississippi in 1857. the second Bull Run. Commissioned ma- His writings were of the extreme Calvin- jor-gcncral. .\pril 2t,. 1863. he led a division