Routt County CO Archives Biographies.....Trull, George E. December 22, 1865 - ? ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/co/cofiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Judy Crook jlcrook@rof.net March 25, 2006, 7:57 pm Author: Progressive Men of Western Colorado “Not honored less is he who founds than he who heirs a line,” and this is equally true as to places and communities. The man who strides boldly into the uninhabited wilderness and there starts a family and builds up a region, peopling it with thrifty and progressive inhabitants and bringing resources to the support of men and into the channels of commerce, is as essentially a benefactor of mankind, as one who receives from a long line of distinguished ancestors estates and interests of value and keeps them in good forms of utility and progress whereby many men profit, and in the discernment of many judicious observers the former is entitled to a much higher meed of praise and credit. For he makes out of the raw material what the other only maintains and still further develops. George E. Trull belongs to the class of new creators in that he came to the section of Routt county in which his flourishing ranch and cattle industries are located, and there in the midst of a profound and unbroken wilderness establishes a home which has been the nucleus of a growing and prosperous community, already well advanced in development, and yielding to the public weal a goodly store of wealth, enterprise and productiveness. He was born on December 22, 1865, at South Paris, Oxford county, Maine, and is the son of Edwin R. and Annie N. Trull, themselves natives of Maine. The father died when the subject was but two years old, while the mother lives with her daughter, Mrs. Wiley, at Nashua, New Hampshire. The father was a prosperous manufacturer of carriages and kindred products. He was an active Republican in politics and a Methodist in church affiliation, as is now his widow. Two of their children are living, George and his sister Gertrude, wife of Archie Wiley. George received a common-school education and worked with his father for several years after leaving school. He began to earn his own living at the age of twelve, and when he was a good sized youth he became clerk in a dry-goods store at Portland in his native state, and afterward was in the employ of the Adams Express Company at Boston, Massachusetts, for three years. In 1886 he came to Colorado and took up his residence in Routt county, locating on a ranch which he pre-empted, then improved and sold at a good profit. He has since taken up the one he now owns at Trull on a homestead claim, the place being named in his honor, as he was the earliest settler there. The ranch comprises one hundred and sixty acres, and he has one hundred and thirty under cultivation. Cattle and hay are his principal products and his business is flourishing, and carried on with increasing magnitude and profits. When he took up the land it was covered with wild sage and had no buildings of any kind. He has made his own improvements, which are a standing evidence of his enterprise and taste, and by his industry he has made his farm a very productive and valuable tract of land. He is a stanch Republican in political affairs, and fraternally belongs to the Modern Woodmen of America. On November 24, 1890, he was joined in wedlock with Miss Martha McLaughlin, a native of Scotland. They have had five children, three of whom, Edwin, John and George, have died, and two, Francis R. and Edward E., are living. Mrs. Trull is the daughter of Richard and Mary (Elliott) McLaughlin, who were born in Scotland and came to this country many years ago. They are Presbyterians in church fellowship. Of their nine children seven are living, Mrs. Trull, Jane, Mary, John, James, William and Peter. Since 1897 Mr. Trull has been postmaster of the office which bears his name. He is also the road supervisor of his district, and his services in both capacities have won him hearty commendation from his friends and neighbors, and all others who have occasion to patronize the office or travel over the roads which he keeps in order, his performance of his official duties in both respects being in accordance with his general demeanor, which covers all the requirements of good citizenship with fidelity, industry and intelligence. Additional Comments: From Progressive Men of Western Colorado. Chicago: A.W. Bowen & Co., 1905 File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/co/routt/bios/trull448gbs.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/cofiles/ File size: 4.8 Kb