Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1898-06-02
In Memoriam.

In Memoriam.
Walter Bowdaiu Trumbull, son ol
Nathan Trumbpll, was born at Ludlow,
Hampton county, Massachusetts, Jan
uary 90, 1918 died in Los Angeles,
California. April 10. 1898, and was in
TERED at Chicago, Illinois, April %.
1898. He came of Revolutionary
stock, his grandfather, John Trum-
bull, having served as a private in the
war of Independence. He was edu-
Gated in the public schools at Monson,
Mass, and at Monson Academy Mass,
from 1924 to 1884, going to school q
part of the year and working on his
fathers farm the remainder of the
time. Late in the year, 1884, at the
age of sixteen years, he commenced a
school at Somerset, Vermont, his faith
er having previously moved to Brat
tleboro, that State. Of this school he
wrote: Il had 60 pupils, many OF
them older than myself, and among
them, two old maids, one having
taught school before, and added to
these another who was a widow. My
salary was $12 a month and | had to
board around with my patrons. He
taught school during the winters of
1856, 1867 and 1878, and was
employed the rest of the year at hard
work on the farm.
On September 81, 1888, he set out to
seek his fortune in the Great West:
He travelled by stage coach to Troy,
hu
Lake Erie, thence by boat to Cleve-
land, Ohio, thence by canal boat to
Portsmouth on the Ohio River, thence
by boat to Cincinnati and from that
point to Camden, Ohio, by canal boat,
where he taught school for eight
months at salary of $25 per month,
paying $12 a month for board. This
school closed May 4, 1889, when he
set out to visit the celebrated Iron
Mountain of Missouri, represented as
important young town, going by boat
to Ste. Genevieve and from there afoot
by way of Pennington. When he
reached the Iron Mountain, he found,
as stated by himself, zone log cabin
and small brick yard instead of a
growing young CITY," A Catholic
priest, who was developing a mine in
that vicinity, gave him employment as
book-keeper at fair salary for a few
months, but the mine proved failure
and, being thrown out of work again,
he returned to teaching school and
from that time on he made teaching
his life work.
On March goth, 1845, at Richwoods,
Missouri, he was married to Miss Vir-
ginia Thomas, sister of John l.. and
W. III. III. Thomas, Rev. James Will
liams, father o. Judge Frank Williams
of Big River and Judge j. j. Williams
of Hillsboro, officiating.
From 1889 to 164S he taught many
schools in the neighbor-
hood of Iron Mountain and Arcadia.
In the latter year, Rev. j. G. Berry
man engaged him as teacher in the
Arcadia High School, which position
he held for twelve years. This school,
passing into other hands, Mr.. Trum-
bull, in connection with John C.. Cole
and in 1860, erected building
at De Soto, Mo-, in which he successful
ly maintained an institution of learning,
known asthe Jefferson County Semina-
ry, until the latter part of 1864, when
he moved to Pleasant Hill, this State,
where in a short time he wat put and
remained in charge of the public
schools of that city, until 1875. After
this time, his children having either
married or engaged in business away
from home, he taught but little and,
owing to the health of himself and
wife, he was finally compelled to aban-
don entirely his chosen profession.
For fifteen years prior to his death he
spent his time with his children in St.
Louis, Chicago, carlton, Kansas, and
Los Angeles, Cal. In 1887, his wife
died at carlton, Kansas.
There were born to him and his
wife five children, only two of whom
survive him. His eldest son, Morris
after holding several re-
sponsible railroad positions. was, at
the time of his death, in Chicago, the
manager of one of the largest banking
institutions in that city. His daughter
ls married and lives in California.
Frank Trumbull, the youngest child,
Is now and has been for three years.
receiver of the Union Pacific, Denver
and Gulf Railroad, with headquarters |
at Denver, Colorado.
Mr.. Trumbull lived in wonderful
age and the vicissitudes of bis long |
life were many. Having been born
and reared in an humble home, by
poor parents. necessity drove him to
carve out his own fortune in his own
way; and most nobly did he do it.
At the time he was at school the
conditions were vastly different from
what they are now. Then there we're
10 steel pens, no lead pencils, no ruled
paper. no copy books and no printed
copies. His scholastic education was
United to the English branches, but
Turing his long life he never ceased to
cad and study and learn. His range
If reading in science, history and the
English classics was very extensive,
ind being endowed with good mem
Try he could easily and naturally IL
ustrate what he said in his public ad-
lresses and in his private conversa-
ion by apt quotations from the best