Biographical Sketch of Marvin W. Trask, Crawford County, Missouri

>From "History of Franklin, Jefferson, Washington, Crawford and 
Gasconade Counties", Biographical Appendix, Goodspeed Publishing 
Company, 1888.

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Marvin W. Trask, deceased, an early settler of Crawford County, MO., 
was born in Connecticut in 1794.  His father, Sampson Trask, died when
Marvin W. was but a boy, and the latter being bound out ran away, ser-
ving as a cook during the War of 1812.  The exact date of his settle-
ment in Missouri is not known, but certain it is, he was a resident of
that State as early as 1826.  He was engaged in mining in Crawford Co.,
and though beginning a poor boy he became worth some $30,000.  For many
years he was surveyor of Crawford County, and in 1844 was its represen-
tative in the State Legislature.  Though a farmer by occupation he was
an active politician, and held many offices of trust and honor.  His
first wife was Alice (Stewart) Steen, who was born in 1826 and died in
1852, the mother of nine children.  Two years after the death of his
first wife Mr. Trask married Elizabeth J. Dawson, of East Tennessee.
Nine children blessed this union and were deprived of their father by
death in 1865; the mother still lives.  Eugene Trask, the eldest child
by the last marriage, was born in Crawford County, MO., July 16, 1855,
and was reared and educated in Steelville.  At the age of sixteen he 
began to learn the printer's trade, and helped set the type for the
first newspaper printed in Crawford County.  After working at this and
clerking in a drug store for some years he bought a stock of drugs in 
1880, and established a business in Steelville.  In 1879 he married
Mary, daughter of Jorgean and Anna Johansen, who was born in Maribo
City, Island of Lolan, Denmark, and came to America with her parents
when a child.  Mr. and Mrs. Trask have four children; they are members
of the Baptist Church.  Politically, he is a Democrat.  Mr. Trask was
elected county treasurer in 1884, and re-elected in 1886, which posi-
tion he has since filled.  He is a member of the Missouri State Pharm-
aceutical Association.

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