Mathew Mark Trumbull (1826 - 1894)

Born 30 Dec 1826 in London, England, United Kingdom

Husband of Frances (Pierce) Trumbull — married 1866 in Scott, Iowa, United States

Descendants

Died 9 May 1894 at age 67 in Chicago, Cook, Illinois, United States

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Biography

Matthew Mark Trumbull was an American soldier, teacher, lawyer, writer and politician. He was a Brevet Brigadier General during the Civil War. Trumbull is best known as the author of "The Free Trade Struggle in England."

Matthew Mark Trumbull was born on December 30, 1826, in the parish of St. Margaret in the city Westminster, county of London, England. ^[1] When Matthew Trumbull was 3, his father, Mark Trumbull, a small general store owner, was imprisoned for debt at Marshalsea Prison. At the age of 13, Matthew Trumbull worked as a bricklayer's laborer to help his family earn a living. ^[2]

In 1846, Trumbull, then 21, emigrated to Canada. He worked on the railroad at Longueuil until winter. Then he moved to the United States ^[2]

Trumbull taught school in Vermont. In in the summer of 1847, he moved to Boston, Massachusetts. Later, he lived in Virginia where he taught school and studied law. Trumbull's opposition to slavery caused him to move from Richmond, Virginia to a Free State and in 1853, relocated in Iowa. Trumbull studied law and began practice in Clarksville, Butler County. In 1857, Trumbull was elected to the House of the Seventh General Assembly on the Republican ticket. ^[3] While member of the General Assembly, he met and became friends with Ulysses S. Grant. ^[2]

Matthew Mark Trumbull was a Londoner who immigrated at the age of twenty. Within ten years of his arrival in America, he had become a lawyer in Butler County, Iowa; two years later a member of the state legislature; and two years after that a captain in the Union Army. By the end of the Civil War, he was a brevet brigadier general, and in his later years he was an author and lecturer. ^[4]

In 1860, Matthew M Trumbull was an attorney living in Butler Township, Butler County, Iowa. ^[5]

About 1856, Matthew M Trumbull married Christine Hooker. About 1866, Trumbull married Florence Pierce. ^[1][2]

Military Service

• Civil War
  

  Lieutenant Colonel Mathew Trumbull served in the United States Civil War.
  Enlisted: May 20, 1861
  Mustered out: Feb 28, 1866
  Side: USA
  Regiment(s): 3rd Iowa Infantry; 9th Iowa Calvary
  

  Brig Gen Mathew Trumbull was Wounded in Action during United States Civil War.

Matthew M. Trumbull enlisted May 20, 1861, in Company I, 3rd Regiment, Iowa Infantry. On June 10, 1861, Trumbull was appointed Captain. On April 6, 1862, Trumbull was severely wounded in the head at Shiloh, Tennessee. On August 10, 1862, Trumbull was promoted to Lieutenant Colonel. He resigned on November 20, 1862. ^[6]

On September 26, 1863, Matthew M. Trumbull was appointed Colonel of 9th Regiment, Iowa Infantry. ^[7] On March 13, 1865, Trumbull was brevetted Brigadier General. ^[6][7]] On February 28, 1866, he mustered out at Little Rock, Arkansans. ^[7]

Postbellum

In 1866, Trumbull returned to Iowa and was elected district attorney of the Ninth Judicial District. He served in that position until 1869 at which time Trumbull was appointed Collector of Internal Revenue for the Third Congressional District of Iowa by President Grant. He served in that position for 12 years. In 1882, Trumbull moved to Chicago and was active as a writer and pro-labor activist. ^[1][3]

Death

Matthew Mark Trumbull died on May 9, 1894. He buried at Rosehill Cemetery and Mausoleum, Chicago, Cook County, Illinois. ^[1]

Memorials/Writings

• "The Free Trade Struggle in England", by Matthew Mark Trumbull, Open Court Publishing Company, 1892. ^[8]

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3} Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/8150825/matthew_mark-trumbull: accessed May 16, 2024), memorial page for Matthew Mark Trumbull (30 Dec 1826–9 May 1894), Find a Grave Memorial ID 8150825, citing Rosehill Cemetery and Mausoleum, Chicago, Cook County, Illinois, USA; Maintained by Find a Grave.
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3} General Matthew Mark Trumbull Respectable Radical, by Ray Boston, Saving Communities.org. http://savingcommunities.org/docs/trumbull.matthewmark/
3. ↑ ^{3.0 3.1} The Iowa Legislature, Legislators, Matthew Mark Trumbull. https://www.legis.iowa.gov/legislators/legislator/legislatorAllYears?personID=5698
4. ↑ Summary of: Iowa's forgotten general: Matthew Mark Trumbull and the Civil War, Kenneth L. Lyftogt. Missouri University of Science & Technology Library. Accessed 23 Aug 2022. http://link.library.mst.edu/portal/Iowas-forgotten-general--Matthew-Mark-Trumbull/_RYfge5HpPI/
5. ↑ "United States Census, 1860", database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M826-BJC : 18 February 2021), M M Trumbull, 1860.
6. ↑ ^{6.0 6.1} Roster and Record of Iowa Soldiers in the War of the Rebellion: Together with Historical Sketches of Volunteer Organizations, 1861–1866. Volume 1, Page 380. https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=xtKfjs1N6cQC&pg=GBS.PA389&hl=en
7. ↑ ^{7.0 7.1 7.2} Roster and Record of Iowa Soldiers in the War of the Rebellion: Together with Historical Sketches of Volunteer Organizations, 1861–1866. Volume 4, Page 1654, https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=okAuAAAAYAAJ&pg=GBS.PA1656&hl=en
8. ↑ The free trade struggle in England. https://archive.org/details/freetradestruggl00trum

See also:

• General Matthew Mark Trumbull, Respectable Radical. ^[9]