Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1899-04-20
EDWIN A. VAN TRUMP DIES SUDDENLY.
Death Came White He Was Riding his
Bicy Gle at nryn Mawr, Pa.

Bryn Mawr Thursday afternoon. Mr..
Van Trump was q member of a bicycle
party which was en- route for Fair
mount Park, Philadelphia. In the
party, besides him, were Isaac S.
Bullock, f. w. Fem, George G.
Maris, George N. Maris, Willis f.
Sewall, and the Revs L. W. Long Of |
Green Hill. William NJ. Schall of !
First, and George H. Trull of Eastlake |
Presbyterian Churches. They had gone |
to West Chester by way of the Will
mington Il Northern railroad and the |
trolley line from Lenape, in the morn
ing, and from West Chester rode their
bicycles to Paoli. Stopping there for
Il drink of spring water, they. then
continued to Bryn Mawr, where dinner
was to be taken at q hotel. They
reached Bryn Mawr about ! O'Clock.
1t is considered to be an easy ride, but
Mr. Van Trump, who had not been
using his wheel much, had spoken of
being short of breath, Il usual accom-
panineut of early bicycle rides. He
was bringing up the rear of the party,
when Mr.. Fem and the Rev. Mr..
Schall, who were nearest to him, heard
noise They turned about and saw
that he had fallen from his wheel.
! They went to him at once and carried
! him to the porch of house nearby,
| whence ho was taken to Bryn Mawr
Hospital. 1t is believed that he was
dead as result of heart affection
when he fell.
Edwin A. Van Trump, DR., son
and partner of the deceased, WAS noti-
fed by telephone of his fathers death
and word was also sent TO Undertaken
j. b. Martin, both men going to Bryn
Mawr.
On June 18th last, Mr., Van Trump's
brother, Isaac, fell dead from his wheel
in Philadelphia.
Edwin A. Van Trump was born in
Plainfield, N. j., in 1889, and was in
his Goth year. In the Civil War he
was connected with the hospital service.
Just after the war he established his
insurance agency in this city. For
Board of Trade. He was a member of
Eureka Lodge, A. +. a. NJ, Delta
Chapter, r. A. NJ, and st. Johns
Commandery, Knights Templar, and a
past sachem of Lenape Tribe, Improved
Order of Red Men. He was promi.
nent member of st. Johns Episcopal
Church, being one Of its vestrymen.
At a meeting of the vestry of that
church Monday night week, he was
, elected an alternate to the Diocesan
convention, to be held in this city in
, June. Since the organization of the
Church Club of Delaware he had been
one Of its members.
Mr.. Van Trump leaves wife and
] six children, the latter being Edwin
, A., Jr., Leighton O., Gardiner L..
| William, Helen and Clara J. Van
Trump. James G. Van Trump, plumber
] of the Water Department, is brother
of the deceased.
Tho funeral of Edwin A. Van TrunI
/ took place on Monday from his late
T residence, No. 4l2 Broome street. St
Johns Commandery, Knights Templar
: headed by Hyatt's Military Band, at
5 tended the funeral in body. Tn,
pallbearers, all of whom are members
o of the commandery, were Samuel II
+ Baynard, William Lawton, Charles Z
: Dubell, Joseph A. Bond, George l
q Speer and Charles 4. Rudolph.
y The men who were with Mr.. Val
+ Trump on the wheeling trip last Thurs
!, day when he was fatally stricken, at
|. tended tho funeral in body. The.
/, were Isaac S. Bullock, George G. an,
!. George N. Maris, f. w. Fem an,
7. Willis +. Sewall, and the Revs. L. w
Long, W. NJ. Schall and George H
IF Trull.
l. Services we're held at st. John
Episcopal Church, of which Mr.. Va
Trump was a yestryman, by Bisho
X Coleman and the Rev. George G. Hal
Interment was made in the Whining
E ton and Brandywine cemetery, tho sci
vice at the grave being in charge Of d.
F. Harvey Day, eminent commander
and Bishop leighton Coleman, actin
of as prelate, of st. Johns Commander!
~ At meeting of the St. John
at Vestry held at the Office of Aust
"a Harrington, Esq, No. 302 Equitab
= Building, the following resolution
ho were adopted:
4 The rector, warden and yestrymen
Z, st. Johns Church record with DEF
nn sorrow their great loss in the death
he he Mr.. E. a. Van Trump, their steadfa
go friend and beloved associate. Viii
h the summons was sudden, they n
~, ~ assured that he departed in peace al
Go entered upon tho inheritance which
~ incorruptible and indebted and tn
az fadeth not away. He filled so large
"a place that he will long be great
~ missed. At an early age he took
M influential position in the church. f
, ,ro years filling high Office in t
''o Sunday school, discharging the duti
of q vestryman, and latterly occupy
the position of an assistant to t
led secretary OF the Diocesan Conventio
of He in these relations wrought so W
be that he deserves TO be remembered
to a large-minded, generous and 10.
inc churchman.
AZ: In the commulity at large he W
cen his way to prominence, and he on
tes day Of his death was among our b.
g9, known business men. While we III
ons not enter tho more sacred relations
To home this tribute would not be co
md plete without saying that they W
,els characteristic of the man. He '
ties domestic in his tastes. lie grea
IAN loved his own ireside. His home
, was largely his real life and in
in relations Of husband and father
age exhibited the best traits of
ow character, and we in this supro
|; on trial extend oCr tenderest sympathy
in his family, commencing them to II
tee. who doeth all things we'll.
lion Resolved, That these resolutions
Of 5 printed in the Every Evening and
sem Morning News, and copy be SEM
the the family under tho attestation of
post secretary of the yestry.
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