The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-01-14
Tributes to Trimble
Apprectlve References the Character and Career
Keokuks Late Honored Citizen

a million dollars were involved in the
case.
Judge Trimble loved TO roam the
/ woods and fields with his dog and gun
IN search of game. He and the late
Judge Hubbard were arrested near
Spirit Lake some ten years ago for
killing prairie chickens out of sea-
son having commenced hunting opera
lions the day before the open season
began. A few years later Judge
Irimble left his family nag and his
! old buggy standing unhitched n front
OF store in Keokuk He had Just
returned from the woods ski-ting the
Mississippi. While he was making
some purchases in the store his horse
took fright and ran away. The buggy
was upset just in front of the resi-
denee Of deputy game warden and
there rolled ont upon the ground a
number of quails that had been cap
tured contrary TO the game Law. Judge
Trimble paid fine for the sport and
lost the birds also.
The editor Of the Record took din
ner al the Slavery hotel in Des Moines
with Judge Trimble and the late Sena.
tor Ballingail some years ago anc
when the waiter brought the meal
Judge Trimble took from his side
pocket a few slices of bread that his
wife had baked, remarking as he did
SO that mother knew how to bake
bread that was fit to eat. He never
left home without a supply of bread
neatly tucked away in his grip. Trim
bic was the most conpanionable OF
men. He was patriot in the highest
sense and took delight in telling of his
humble part in the war of the rebellion
The year that he ran for governor the
Democrats held their state convention
preceding that OF the Republican,
When the Republican convention met
W ]. Moir of Eldora, and who is
still living, arose to place John H.
Gear Of Burlington, In nomination. At
the conclusion of an eloquent per
Grafton he set the convention wild by
stating that when the Republican
campaign is in Gear it will make the
Democrats Trimble in their boots
One Of the Best Men in Iowa.
Iowa City Republican: One of the
most forceful and We believe one OF
the best men in Iowa, passed away
Sunday at his home in Keokuk Ref.
q IL oI - Go1- II T~;,.
BILE. The men who knew Colonel Trim
bic best loved him most. He was COM
panionable, witty. and possessed of
philosophy of life that was inspiring.
Something like twenty years ago
the editor of the Republican, then re-
siding in Cedar Rapids, happened to
meet Colonel Trimble in the Office OF
the late Judge Hubbard. They were
as thick as two brothers could be and
visited each other often On that oc-
casion, Colonel Trimble remarked
that he had known people of the same
name in Shelby county, Indiana, when
q boy and young man And then ii
developed that when young men to-
gether, Colonel Trimble and the father
OF the writer were playmates as boys
and later intimate associates. do
you know" he said. how near 1
came to being your uncle? 1t was
this way. When boy and until /
was nearly grown. ] firmly intended
to have your fathers sister for my
wife. if she would have me, but We
later drifted apart, as so often is the
case, and we both got married and
that was the end of our youthful
romance"
Colonel Trimble was born in Shelby
county, had his first schooling in q
log school house on Flat Rock river,
and after his service In the Mexican
war, and after his marriage, came to
Iowa in 1S49.
Shelby county has furnished mum.
Der Of well known Iowans. Colonel
Moore of Bloomfield, who served In
the senate and died few years ago.
and George W, Clarke, now lieutenant
governor, were from the same county
and neighborhood, as also were the
hendalis, father and other relatives
OF Congressman Kendall of the Sixth
district Mr.. Clarke's father, well adj
vanced in life, still resides in Davis
county, near Drakeyil1e
Colonel Trimble was eighty-fve at
the time of his death. He was lieuten-
ant colonel OF the Third Iowa cavalry,
but was discharged in 1859 on account
of severe wound he received at
Pea Ridge
He was a great and successful law
yer, and was interested in the con-
struction of railways in the vicinity
of his home. He was district Judge
and Democratic candidate for govern.
or against John H. Gear. and was
candidate for congress in 1872.
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