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TRUMBULL

History of Connecticut, 1630-1764 (3 vols., 1797- 1819). He died in North Haven, Conn., Feb. 2,1820,

TRUMBULL, Henry Clay, author, was born in Stonington, Conn., June 8, 1830; son of Gurdon and Sarah Ann (Swan) Trumbull ; grandson of John and Lucy (Springer) Trumbull and of Thomas and Fanny (Pahner) Swan, and a descend- ant of Elder William Brewster, Mayfloioer, 1620. He attended Stonington academy and Williston seminary, and moved to Hartford, Conn., in 1851, where he engaged in the railroad business. He was married, in 1854, to Alice Cogswell, daughter of the Rev. Dr. Thomas and Sophia (Fowler) Gallaudet of Philadelphia and Hartford. He was the missionary of the State Sunday-school associa- tion, 1858-62 ; and w^s ordained to the Congrega- tional ministry' in 1862, in order to become chap- lain of the lOtli Connecticut regiment. He was taken prisoner before Fort Wagner in 1863, and was confined in Charleston and Columbia jail and in the Libby prison. In 1865 he was elected New England secretary of the American Sunday School union, and later conducted its normal work throughout the countrj'. He was associated with John D. Wattles in the publication of The Sun- day School Times at Philadelphia, 1875-93 ; and when The Sunday School Times company was incorporated, he was its president and editor in chief. He traveled in Egypt and the Holy Land, 1881 ; and became Lyman Beecher lecturer at the Yale Divinity school in 1888. The honorary de- gree of A.M. was coiiferred on him by Yale in 1866, and that of D.D. by Lafayette college in 1883, and by the University of the City of New York in 1884. He is the author of : The Knightly Soldier (1865) ; A Model Superintendent (1880) ; Kadesh-Barnea (1883) ; Teaching and Teachers (1884) ; The Blood Covenant (1885) ; The Thresh- old Covenayit (1888) ; Principles and Practice (6 vols, 1889) : Hints on Child Training (1890) ; Friendship, the Master Passion (1891) ; A Lie Never Justifiable (1893); Studies in Oriental Social Life (1894) ; Prayer; Its Nature and Scope (1896) ; Li Tribulation (1896) ; Teachers' Meetings (1896) ; War Memories of an Army Chaplain (1898) ; The Covenant of Salt (1899) ; Illustrative Ansivers to Prayer (1900) ; Individual Work for Individuals (1901) ; Old Time Student Volunteers (1902) ; My Four Religion Teachers (1903) ; Hoiv to Deal ivith Doubts and Doubters (1903).

TRUMBULL, James Hammond, historian, was born in Stonington, Conn., Dec. 20,1821; son of Gurdon and Sally Ann (Swan) Trumbull ; grandson of John and Lucy (Springer) Trumbull, and of Thomas and Fanny (Palmer) Swan, and a descendant of John Trumbull, the immigrant, about 1637. He entered Yale, 1838, and was obliged to leave before his graduation, but in 1842 was given the degrees of A.B. and A.M., his

name being placed on record with the class of 1842. He assisted in the preparation of cata- logues of the mammalia, reptiles, fishes and shells of Connecticut, 1842-43 ; removed to Hart- ford, Conn., and served as assistant secretary of state, 1847-52 and 1858-61, and as secretary, 1861-64. He was married, Aug. 6, 1855, to Sarah Amelia, daughter of David Franklin and Annie (Seymour) Robinson of Hartford. He was cor- responding secretary of the Connecticut Histori- cal society, 1849-53, and its president in 1863 ; was elected a member of the American Oriental society, in 1860 ; of the American Ethnological society, in 1867 ; of the American Philological association, in 1869, serving as its president, 1874-75 ; and of the National Academy of Sciences, in 1872. The honorary degree of LL.D. was conferred on him by Yale, in 1871, and by Harvard, in 1887, and that of L.H.D. by Co- lumbia, in 1887. He prepared a dictionary and vocabulary to Eliot's " Indian Bil^le " ; compiled a catalogue of the Brinley library, and is the au- thor of : Tlie Colonial Records of Connecticut (3 vols., 1850-59); Historical Notes on some Provis- ions of the Connecticut Statutes (1860-61); The Defense of Stonington against the British Squad- ron, August, ISI4. (1864); Roger IVilliarns' Key to the Language of America (1886); Thomas Lech- ford's ''Plain Dealing" (1867); TJte Origin of Mc- Fingal (1868); The Composition of Indian Geo- graphical Names (1870); Tlie Best Method of Studying the Indian Languages (1871); Some Mistaken Notions of Algonkin Grammar (1871); Historical Notes on the Constitution of Connecti- cut (1872); Notes on Forty Algonkin Versions of the Lord's Prayer (1873); On the Algonkin Verbs (1876); TJie True Blue Laws of Connecticut and the False Blue Laws invented by the Rev. Samuel Peters (1876); Indian Names of Places on the Bor- der of Connecticut (1881), and & Memorial History of Hartford County (2 vols., 1886). He died in Hartford, Conn., Aug. 5. 1897,

TRUMBULL, John, satirist, was born in West- bury, Conn., April 13, 1750 ; son of John and Sarah (Whitman) Trumbull ; grandson of John and Elizabeth (Winchell) Trumbull ; great- grandson of Joseph and Hannah (Smith) Trum- bull, and greats-grandson of John, the immi- grant, and Ellenor (Chandler) Trumbull. John Trumbull, Jr., was graduated from Yale in 1767 : was a tutor there, 1771 ; studied law and was ad- mitted to practice in 1771. He began his profes- sional life in the law office of John Adams in Boston ; practised in New Haven, Conn., 1774-76, and in Hartford, 1781-1801. He was married in November, 1776, to Sarah, daughter of Col. Lev- erett Hubbard of New Haven, Conn. He was state's attorney, 1789-1800 ; judge of the superior court, 1801-19, and judge of the court of errors in