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Author: John C. Odell (1916)

JOHN C. TRENT.

   That Indiana schools have for years held a prominent place among the best in
the United States is not to be denied, and that this high standard has been
raised through the efficiency of the teachers therein is a fact beyond
contention. John C. Trent, prominent in this line of endeavor, deserves his meed
of praise for the service he has rendered to the state and county. For many
years he devoted his time and energies to the training and directing of the
receptive minds of the Indiana children, in various parts of the state.

   John C. Trent was born on August 25, 1861, on his father's farm, where he now
resides. He is the son of Joseph and Mary (Wagoner) Trent, who were the parents
of six children, all of whom grew to maturity. The names of these children
follow: Sarah E., wife of J. E. Snell and now deceased; Dr. Isaac N., living in
Muncie, Indiana, is prominent as a physician and surgeon; Martin M., living in
Colorado; Rose Anne, wife of James Zartman, who resides in Carrollton township,
this county; Clara Belle, wife of H. J. Alexander, of Noblesville, Indiana, and
John C, now living in Carrollton township.

   Joseph Trent was a teacher for many years in the schools of Carrollton
township, Carroll county, Indiana, but followed his trade of carpenter after his
retirement from the educational field. He was born in Virginia and came with his
parents to Indiana in the early days, about 1829. His father was John Trent and
all of the Trents in Carroll county are descendants of this man. Mary (Wagoner)
Trent, wife of Joseph Trent, was the daughter of Martin Wagoner, a native of
Pennsylvania who came to Indiana from that state and became one of the pioneers
who assisted to such a marked degree in the development of this state. When the
Trent family first came to Indiana from Virginia, they settled near Bachelors
Run on land very near to the place now occupied by the Walnut Stump German
Baptist church. They lived in this place for some time and then purchased land
in Carrollton township, near the Allen school house and it was there that John
Trent died.

   John C. Trent, descendant of John Trent the pioneer, began his education in
the district schools of Carrollton township and when twenty years of age became
a student in the Battleground Collegiate Institute, after which he taught for
four years in Carrollton township, completing his education at the University of
Indiana, taking as his major subject mathematics. Assured that he was now fully
equipped to assist in the educational instruction of others, he accepted the
position of teacher in the high school at Hagerstown, Indiana, which position he
occupied for one year. After his successful experience in the Hagerstown
schools, he taught for one year respectively, in the high schools of Noblesville
and Muncie, Indiana. Being a man of high ideals and having the courage of his
convictions, he became an instructor in the Shortridge high school at
Indianapolis, where, during his term of fourteen years identification with this
institution of learning, he established and was superintendent of the city of
Indianapolis night schools.

   The burden of both day and night schools proved too heavy for his strength
and on account of failing health, John C. Trent retired to his farm of eighty
acres, which is located three and one-half miles from Wheeling, after a trial in
the business world of Indianapolis, which had covered a period of three years.
His sojourn on the farm was of short duration for again he took up the duties of
school work, this time in the schools of Wheeling, where he had charge for five
years and for the past year has been teaching at Bringhurst, Indiana.

   John C. Trent was the successful suitor for the hand of Etta Conrad, daughter
of William Conrad, of Richmond, Indiana, and on May 3, 1887, they were united in
marriage. Etta Trent was a teacher in the schools of Hagerstown at the time her
future husband taught there and it was there that the romance, which was to
terminate in future happiness for both, was begun. Five children have blessed
their union, namely: Donald, a graduate of Shortridge high school and a business
man of Indianapolis; Mary, also a graduate of Shortridge high school and the
wife of Thomas Landes, now in Wenatchee, Washington; John Albert, a graduate of
the Flora high school and now on the farm in Carrollton township; Margaret, a
graduate of the high school at Young America, Indiana, and Robert M., who is now
in school.

   John C. Trent is a member of lodge No. 399, Free and Accepted Masons, of
Bringhurst, Indiana, and a member and elder of the Hopewell Presbyterian church.
Politically, he is a Republican and a stanch supporter of that party as well as
of all other questions receiving his indorsement. For service rendered in the
upbuilding of family and civic life, John C. Trent is fully entitled to the
highest praise, and the unusual and loving regard in which he is held by his
fellow citizens becomes the due reward of the sincere effort and well-directed
energy which he has displayed in all his private and public career.


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Biographical Section of
HISTORY OF CARROLL COUNTY INDIANA

ITS PEOPLE, INDUSTRIES AND INSTITUTIONS
BY
JOHN C ODELL
With Biographical Sketches of Representative Citizens and
Genealogical Records of Many of the Old Families

ILLUSTRATED
1916
B. F. BOWEN & COMPANY, Inc.
Indianapolis, Indiana


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