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Dr.  Trimble  began  the  practice  of  medicine  in  Cecil  County, 
Md.  He  was  married,  on  November  5,  1840,  to  Elizabeth  Trimble 
Asken,  at  East  Nottingham  Meeting,  Md. 
Dr.  Trimble  appears  to  have  been  imbued  with  the  roving  spirit 
that  was  so  prevalent  among  native-born  Americans  in  the  first  half 
of  vthe  nineteenth  century.  We  find  him  practising  medicine  in 
Burlington;  N.  J.,  Marlton,  N.  J.,  and  finally  in  Beverly,  N.  J.,  where 
he  was  well  known  and  is  still  remembered  by  a  number  of  the  older 
residents.  About  1 864,  he  removed  to  Chicago,  111.,  where  he 
became  acquainted  with  a  fellow  alumnus  of  the  college,  Mr.  A.  E. 
Ebert,  who  at  that  time  was  actively  interested  in  the  Chicago  Col- 
lege of  Pharmacy,  being  the  corresponding  secretary  and  chairman 
of  the  committee  on  the  School  of  Pharmacy.  In  1872,  at  the  sug- 
gestion of  Mr.  Ebert,  Dr.  Trimble  was  offered,  and  accepted,  the 
chair  of  Materia  Medica  and  Toxicology,  in  the  Chicago  College  of 
Pharmacy.  This  chair  he  occupied  for  three  seasons,  or  until  the 
spring  of  1 875,  when  he  resigned.  Shortly  after  this  he  removed 
to  Evanston,  111.,  where  he  practised  medicine  for  some  years.  He 
later  removed  to  Geneva  Lake,  Wis.  Feeling  that  he  had  spent  his 
more  active  years,  Dr.  Trimble  retired  from  the  practice  of  medicine 
and  removed  to  Starke,  Bradford  County.  Fla.  The  remaining  years 
of  his  life  were  spent  quietly  between  Starke,  Fla.,  and  Philadelphia. 
During  this  later  period  he  spent  some  time  in  Philadelphia  and 
cultivated  quite  a  circle  of  acquaintances,  who  were  charmed  by  his 
interesting  and  genial  personality  and  who  still  recall  with  pleasure 
the  interesting  reminiscences  of  travel  and  adventure  with  which  he 
was  wont  to  entertain  them. 
Dr.  Trimble  died  at  Fernandina,  Fla.,  September  4,  1901,  having 
reached  the  eighty-ninth  year  of  his  age.  Of  the  ei^ht  children 
that  had  been  born  to  him,  but  three  survived — Mrs.  Harry  Swin- 
burne of  New  York,  Mr.  John  J.  Trimble,  ot  Danville,  111.,  and  Mr. 
Henry  P.  Trimble,  of  Fernandina,  Fla.  To  these  the  writer  is  in- 
debted for  many  of  the  facts  and  data  included  in  the  above 
sketch. 
