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BIOGRAPHIES
Source:
HISTORY OF
LIVINGSTON COUNTY, ILLINOIS
Containing
A History of the County - its Cities, Towns, &c.; a Directory of its
Tax-Payers; War Record of its Volunteers in the late
Rebellion; Portraits of Early Settlers and Prominent Men;
General and Local Statistics; Map of Livingston County
History of Illinois, Illustrated;
History of the Northwest Illustrated;
Constitution of the United States,
Miscellaneous Matters,
&c., &c.
- ILLUSTRATED -
Published Chicago:
Wm. Le Baron, Jr. & Co., 186 Dearborn Street
1878
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Amity Twp. -
A. L. TRIM, Justice of the Peace,
Cornell; was born in Wayne Co., N. Y., in 1820; in 1835 went
to New York City, and shipped on seas; was gone five years,
staying home but a short time, and shipped again in 1841;
was made Captain, sailing as Captain for three years; his
parents having within this time removed to Porter Co., Ind.,
he returned home to 1844; his father at that time was
Sheriff of Porter Co.; his eyesight failing, the son acted
as Deputy Sheriff for two years; in 1847 he again shipped on
the sea, going to Gibraltar and to Mobile; in 1848, took
agency for Western Fur Co.; from 1849 to 1854 he was in
store, hotel and farming; went to sea in 1852, and in 1854
was married to Amarilla S. Hayes; she died in
January, 1856, leaving one son - Moses Lee, born in January,
1856; January, 1857, he married Sarah M. Hayes; since which,
up to 1865, he has been on the sea five years, also run
hotel, store and rectifying houses; in 1865, he was all
burned out, and came West and located in Newtown, Livingston
Co.; was in the mercantile trade up to 1868, when he sold
out and went to farming, which he continued until 1873, when
he went to Cornell and worked at carpentering; was elected
Justice of the Peace in 1877, which office he now holds.
Mr. Trim has been burned out entirely three times in
his life, and also lost at one time $2,875 by pickpockets.
Source: History of Livingston Co.,
Ill. - Published Chicago: Wm. Le Baron, Jr. & Co. - 1878 -
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