Berkeley County, West Virginia Biography of Charles S. TRUMP ************************************************************************** USGENWEB NOTICE: Material may be freely used by non-commercial entities, as long as this message remains on all copied material, AND permission is obtained from the contributor of the file. These pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by other organizations. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material for non-commercial purposes, MUST obtain the written consent of the contributor. Submitted by Valerie Crook, , April 1999 ************************************************************************** The History of West Virginia, Old and New Published 1923, The American Historical Society, Inc., Chicago and New York, Volume III, pg. 115 CHARLES S. TRUMP. Prominent among the younger generation of legists at the Berkeley County bar is found Charles Samuel Trump, who has already displayed profes- sional ability of a high order and has made rapid strides in his calling. Mr. Trump is a veteran of the World war, in which he suffered wounds, and is an energetic, forceful and capable representative of the kind of citizenship which in recent years has brought West Virginia prominently to the forefront in various avenues of endeavor. Mr. Trump was born at Martinsburg, West Virginia, January 18, 1891, and is a son of Rev. Charles Trump, a native of Carroll County, Maryland, born in 1855. The grandfather of Mr. Trump was George Trump, born in 1807, in Carroll County, Maryland, being a son of Frederick Trump, also a native of Carroll County, whose father was Von Johannes Trump, who was born in Holland in 1736 and came to America during Colonial days, settling in Maryland and fighting with the Colonial forces during the War of the Revolution. He died in 1815, while his wife, Catherine Schloegel, who was born in Holland in 1738, died in 1823. Frederick Trump was a merchant in Carroll County, Mary- land, and spent his entire life there. He married Elizabeth Krantz, who was born in the same county and died in 1888, aged seventy years. Cornelius Trump, a great-uncle of Charles S. Trump, was a soldier in the Union army during the war between the states, and was captured and for a time confined in Libby Prison. Rev. Charles Trump took an academic course at the West- ern Maryland College, Westminster, Maryland, and after graduation therefrom entered the Lutheran Seminary at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, being graduated from the theo- logical department of that institution. At that time he located at Harpers Ferry, as pastor of the Lutheran Church there, and in addition to his ministerial duties engaged in teaching school. After two years Reverend Trump removed to Centerville, Pennsylvania, where he was pastor of the old stone church of the Lutheran faith located there, and in 1888 resigned that pastorate to accept a call to St. John's Lutheran Church at Martinsburg. Here he labored faith- fully and effectively until his greatly-mourned death in October, 1919. He married Eva Schick, who was born at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, and she survives him as a resi- dent of Baltimore, Maryland. She reared five children: Harold, Mary B., S. Elizabeth, Charles Samuel and Frank M. Mr. Trump's maternal great-grandfather was John Lawrence Schick, Sr., who died in 1834. He married Susan Holtzworth, of Lancaster, Pennsylvania, in November, 1819. He was born in Duerscheim, Germany, January 22, 1793, and came from there to America, September 20, 1818, and settled in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. His son, John Lawrence Schick, the maternal grandfather of Mr. Trump, married Sarah Welty. He was born December 25, 1822. When he was a young child his parents moved to Gettysburg, Penn- sylvania, where he died in 1913, aged ninety-one years. He was a strong Unionist, and while he never served in the war he gave liberally to the cause. He served many years as treasurer of the Gettysburg Battlefield Memorial Associa- tion. Charles S. Trump attended the public schools of Martins- burg, completing his high school course at the East High School, Columbus, Ohio, following which he enrolled as a student at West Virginia University, Morgantown, where he completed an academic course of one year and then en- tered upon a three-year law course. He was still at the university when the United States became embroiled in the World war, and in 1917 he enlisted in the United States service, being first stationed at Camp Benjamin Harrison, Indiana, where he was commissioned a second lieutenant and assigned first to the Eighty-third Division, from which he was transferred to the Thirty-seventh Division and later to the Seventy-ninth Division, with which he went overseas in December, 1917. Going to the front in France, he par- ticipated in various skirmishes and battles until the severe engagement at Montfaucon, which the Americans captured September 27, 1918, when he was wounded. He was at once sent to a base hospital, in which he was still confined when the armistice was signed, and as soon as he had sufficiently recovered was placed in charge of Blois Casual Company No. 311 and returned to the United States. Upon his ar rival he was assigned to duty at Camp Upton, where he remained until August 13, 1919, and was then honorably discharged. Returning to the university, he resumed his studies and was graduated in 1920 with the degree of Bachelor of Laws. Admitted to the bar, he at once com- menced following his profession at Martinsburg, where he has since built up a large and lucrative practice. On March 30, 1917, Mr. Trump was united in marriage with Miss Rose Lee LaVelle, who was born at Uniontown, West Virginia, daughter of Thomas M. and Susan LaVelle, and to this union there have been born two children, Belle Lee and Jeanne LaVelle. Mr. and Mrs. Trump belong to St. John's Lutheran Church. He is a member of Washing- ton Lodge No. 1, Knights of Pythias, and the American Legion.