Democratic Sentinel, Volume 20, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 July 1896 — JUDGE LYMAN TRUMBULL. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

JUDGE LYMAN TRUMBULL.

The Distiniruißhed Jurist Was Termed “America’s Gladstone." Judge Lyman Trumbull, who recently passed away at his home in Chicago, was fortunate and honored in life. He was contemporary with the beglning and the end of the great anti-slav-ery contest. He saw that sorrowful time, so eloquently pictured and deplored by Webster, when States were dissevered, discordant, belligerent, and the land was rent with civil feuds and and drenched in fraternal blood, and he lived to see his country restored, regenerated and disenthralled, its flag floating over the land and over the sea, bearing on Its ample folds the blazing inscription, “Liberty and Union, Now and Forever, One and Inseparable.” In all this Lyman Trumbull bore a great and distinguished part. In a contest for the senatorship of Illinois he was elected over Mr. Lincoln, who withdrew In his favor, and five years later , he-was one of the fore-

most advocates of Lincoln’s election to the Presidency. Then came the civil war and all the complicated questions growing out of it, and Senator Trumbull brought to the solution of those questions a sagacity, a knowledge of law and a dispassionate temper that made him the wisest of counselors and the most patriotic of statesmen. During the eighteen years of his senatorial tenure he was the peer of Sumner and Fessenden, of Grimes and of Seward, of Chase and of Wade. No man in all that famous catalogue of statesmen deserved better of his countrymen .than Lyman Trumbull’ ‘ • Judge Trumbull wasbornin Colchester. Conn., Oct. 12, 1313. , At the age of 20 he had charge of an academy at Greenville, Ga. In he was admitted to the bar of that State. He shortly thereafter removed to Illinois, and in IS4O was elected a representative in the Legislature; before the expiration of his term he was appointed Secretary of State and fulfilled the of the latter office for two years. Thereafter in the practice of his profession he soon became the peer of the most eminent lawyers in the State and, as a recognition of this fact, he was, in 1848, elected one of the justices of the Supreme Court of Illinois, and in 1852 was re-elected/for nine years. In 1853 he resigned frtjiu the supreme bench, and in the following year was chosen to represent his district tn Congress.

Before he had taken his seat the Legislature elected him United States Senator for six yeaje ffom March, 1853. He was re-elected in 1861 and again in 1367, making in all eighteen consecutive years’ service in the Senate. At the expiration of his term of service in the Senate he resumed the practice of his profession in Chicago. With no man in our public life to-day can Judge Trumbull he compared, but in intellectual force he may well be likened to England’s grand old man, William Ewart Gladstone. In 1843 Judge Trumbull was married to Miss Julia M. Jayne, of Springfield, who died in Washington in 1868. On Nov. 3, 1877, he married, in Saybrook, Conn., Miss Mary J. Ingraham. Six sons were born of the first union and two daughters of the last.

JUDGE LYMAN TRUMBULL.