The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1891-05-14
Sketch Of the Long and Usefal Career
OF the Pioneer Methodist
Preacher.

AsoV' - m. 1IlLuDto uleu al Ills TeSl-
dence at 2Sl East Broad street, Colum-
bus, o. at s:45 p. m. May 9th. The
funeral services were held at Wesley
Chapel on Friday morning and the re.
mains were brought here on Friday and
were inferred the same evening. The
pail bearers were Revs. W. D. Cherring-
ton, Franklin McElfrcsh, Byron Palmer,
]. G. Arbuckle, H. w. Lewis and L. F.
Postle.
The following sketch of DIR. Trimble's
life appeared in the Columbus Dispatch =:
Rev. Joseph Mcdowell Trimble, D. D.,
was born in Woodford county, KY, on
April Z, 1907, and was a son of Allen
Trimble, who was Speaker of the Senate
OF Ohio from 1920 to 1922, and finished
nine days of Governor Browns term, as
Governor, when Brown was elected to
the U. s. Senate in 1922. His early
education began at the village school at
Hillsborough, Highland county, O.,
which was the residence of the family,
and at the age of fifteen he entered the
Ohio University. at Athens, from which
he graduated in 1928.
DIR. Trimble was converted in 1927
and shortly after he graduated was ad.
mitted to the Ohio Conference of the
Methodist Episcopal Church, as travel.
ing minister. This was in opposition to
the wishes of his father, who had another
profession in view.
He was elected Secretary of the con.
ference in 1884, and served in that
capacity for thirty-one years. During
two sessions of the general conference,
he served in the capacity OF Secretary.
In 1885 he was appointed Professor of
Mathematics in Augusta College, Ken.
lucky, which position he ably filed until
1910, at which time he resigned.
In 1S41 DR.. Trimble was first assigned
to. Columbus nrcharge of the Town
Street NJ E. Church, and in 1868 he
again returned to this city as pastor of
Wesley Chapel. He was elected Second
Assistant Missionary Secretary for the
West in 1854 and served for four years,
during which time he visited conferences
in Maine, New Hampshire, Connecticut,
Rhode Island, Massachusetts, New Y ork,
New Jersey, Delaware, Pennsylvania,
Maryland, West Virginia, Ohio, Michi.
gan, Indiana, Illinois, Missouri, Kansas,
Nebraska, Iowa, Minnesota, Wisconsin,
Kentucky and Tensessee.
DR.. Trimble came to this city in 1869
and located on Gay street, near Fourth,
where he lived until 1879, and since that
time had lived at 2Sl East Broad street.
In 1871 he was made financial agent oi
Ohio Wesleyan University OF Delaware,
o., and served in that capacity up to the
present time and was also an active
member of the Board of Trustees of that
institution since 1852.
He was extensively known throughout
the State, probably more so than any
other minister. His sermons were popu
lar in character, and he always avoided
the abstruse problems, and strictly ad
hered to the vital truths of Christianity
He was a fluent speaker, possessed of a
clear penetrating voice, which he always
kept nnder excellent control. His man
ner was earnest and persuasive, and his
influence magnetic. To know him was
to love him, and an evidence of the high
esteem in which he was held by the
ministry, was his election as representa-.
tive to the Quadrennial Conference in
1874, and he has acted as such represen-
tative every four years from that time
up to and including 1888. This is un'
precedented in the history of the Mesh
odist Church. For the last thirty. two
years he has been member of the Gen.
eral Missionary Committee of the Meth
odist Episcopal Church, who have the
disbursing of all missionary funds raised
by the churches. He was one of the
greatest missionary workers in this coun
try, and his fame was not confined alone
to America, but his name is known anC
honored in many foreign countries.
The deceased was married to Sarah P
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