Biography of Thomas Lacy, Arkansas *********************************************************** Submitted by: Joy Fisher < > Date: 16 Dec 2007 Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm *********************************************************** BIOGRAPHICAL AND PICTORIAL HISTORY OF ARKANSAS. BY JOHN HALLUM. VOL. I. ALBANY: WEED, PARSON'S AND COMPANY, PRINTERS. 1887. Entered according to act of Congress in the year eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, BY JOHN HALLUM, In the office of the Librarian of Congress at Washington. JUDGE WILLIAM TRIMBLE. Judge Trimble was born in Kentucky about 1797. In 1825 he was commissioned as one of the territorial judges for Arkansas by John Quincy Adams. He was well educated and gifted with charming conversational powers; was a good lawyer, an upright judge, and an ornament to the government he served. In 1831 he was elected to the territorial house of representatives from Hempstead county, and was by that body elected speaker of the house.