Dallas County AlArchives Biographies.....Trimby, W. H. May 17 1856 - living in 1893
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Author: Brant & Fuller (1893)
   W. H. TRIMBY, wholesale and retail dealer in furniture and musical
instruments, Selma, Ala., was born May 17, 1856, in Dorsetshire, England. His
parents were John and Lucy (Young) Trimby; who yet live in Dorsetshire, England.
The father is a machinist by trade, as is also W. H., who served a five years'
apprenticeship with a large manufacturing establishment in Dorsetshire. He had
gained a fair education and had served his apprenticeship by the time he was
twenty-one years old, and then he accepted a position with the manufacturers
with whom he had finished his apprenticeship, and remained with them until 1881,
as a "work examiner," visiting in the meantime, in the interest of his
employers, the countries of France, Spain and Italy. In 1881 he came to the
United States and located at Knoxville, Tenn., where he secured employment as a
mechanic in the Knoxville Iron works. In 1885 he moved from Knoxville to Selma,
to accept employment as a mechanic in the works of Brooks, Taylor & Barker. In
1886 he embarked in the furniture business, and now has a good business of his
own in the wholesale and retail furniture and musical instrument line. He
carries a full stock of articles of both kinds, and does a large business. As a
business man he is practical and successful, and he is much esteemed for his
integrity and sincerity of purpose. In 1890 he was married to Miss Lelia Dumas,
of Arlington, Ala. He is a member of St. Paul Episcopal church at Selma, and is
a Knight Templar.



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from "Memorial Record of Alabama", Vol. I, p. 921-922
Published by
Brant & Fuller (1893)
Madison, WI

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