The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-01-10
The Eminent Lawyer. Soldier and Statesman Is
Taken Away By Pneumonia After Short
Illness. Contracted on Trip TO a
Supreme Court.
REMARKABLE LIFE OF ACHIEVEMENT
Was Successful As a Lawyer. Banker, Farmer
and Publicist. After BEGINNING i'm the
School OfVery Hard Knocks and
Lie Of Overcoming Adversities.

Judge n. H. Trimble died at 8
o'clock Sunday evening, of pneumonia
painlessly and in the harness, as he
desired to die. Thus ended life Of
about eighty-six years, which has sell
dom been excelled. even in this Amer
lea of remarkable biography, as an ex-
ample of overcoming difficulties and
rising from the mass, by sheer pluck
and brains, to the heights Of public
position and honor
Ha came to Keokuk in 1882, and
was one OF the list of noted men who
have belonged to Keokuk; but he also
belonged to the whole state of Iowa,
the American legal p, o<ession, and:
the veterans of the civil war, for each
of which he made history enough to
make one mans biography worth
while
His parents were hardy pioneers in
the young state of Indiana. They were
living on a farm in Dearborn county
when Henry Hoffman Trimble was
born, and soon after moved to Rush
county, and later to Shelby county,
then an unsettled part of Indiana,
where they cleared farm in the big
woods. On this farm the boy lived 'un-
s til he was fourteen years old.
The College Of Hard Knocks.
He went to school some winters In
little log school house, and at that
early age. just into his teens, had a
wonderful ambition to make man
worth while Of himself The boy OF
fourteen sold cherished horse, given
him by his grandfather, and used the
money to go to school six months at
Shelbyville, small town, but me-
tropolis of the frontier. Somehow. he
managed to finance a term of another
SIX months school at Woodsfield, Ohio
where he had relatives. Then, aged
sixteen, he taught school in Bartholo
new county, Indiana. and with the
savings bought a term OF two of in
struction at little pioneer college al
Franklin. Ind
The resourcefulness of this boy
seen later in the same resourcefulness
Of the leading lawyer and successful
politician, was demonstrated back
there by the fact that young Trimble
studied music at the Franklin college
and the next year or two made his
expenses at the state university by
N teaching music to those who knew less
about it than he did.
n The determination and force of the
:, nan was forecast back there. Fol
two years at the Indiana State uni
& versty, young Trimble kept bachelors
hall, boarded in a cheap club Of equal
a ly poverty-stricken students, ane
managed to live on an outlay of from
forty-five to sixty cents per week 10;
food, which plus books and room rem
made up his expense account HI
raised this by teaching music, to thu
students, during the college year, ant
to the people of central Indiana dur
Ing the summer vacations. Some VIII
afterwards were big men in tn
Hoosier state were pupils at his sing
ing schools. Hon. Joseph l. Irwin, G
Columbus, for instance.
Always Near the Top.
His class went in a body from tn
state university to Asbury universit.
now DePauw, which graduated him
AZ When he rose from the countr.
isolated, log school to tie wider fiel
of the college with it's competition
Henry Hoffman Trimble took the hig
rank which he maintained ever ate
In the university Of the world. He toe
scholastic honors, was popular anon
the students. and was admitted I'M
the Beta Theta Pi society, whic
marked the greatest college studel
success in both the universities he a
tended This brought him In vel
close contact with small, closely-kn
body Of youth, nearly all of whom
terward became very famous mel
they were an inspiration to one anot
e. and young Henry H. Trimble WI
already full OF ambition and inspir
ton to succeed.
Having fought with fate to his gra
uation from college, he at once, aft
receiving his diploma, enlisted in II
@-su iHuldud VOiuutCCiS aHN w
In that regiment for the year tn
elapsed before the close N the Me,
can war
Returning from Mexico, he taug
school in Shelbyville, Ind, while J
studied law with Thomas A. He
tricks and Eden H. Davis, one of b
receptors afterward becoming sen
mr rom Indiana and candidate +
vice president
A Pioneer in Iowa.
During all this time, Iowa was
Inc early stages OF it's making. Hs
i ing completed bis studies in a law
nee, Mr.. Trimble came to Iowa in 1Si
arriving at Bloomfield in Februal
and being admitted to the Iowa bar
April,
his capacity for leadership was