Trible, John

Born: 1826-01-22 England, United Kingdom

Died: 1863-01-23 Upper Alton, Illinois

Flourished: 1855 to 1863 Alton, Illinois

John Trible, attorney, studied at Shurtleff College, earning a bachelor’s degree in 1851. He attended law school at Harvard University, where he graduated in 1855, and by later in that same year was practicing law in Alton, Illinois. Trible served as a trustee of Shurtleff College from 1857 until 1863. He attended the 1856 Illinois Anti-Nebraska Convention as an anti-Nebraska Democrat, and subsequently joined the ranks of the Republican Party, representing Madison County at the 1858 Illinois Republican Convention. Trible married Anna C. James in 1860. During the Civil War he served as a captain in Company G of the Ninety-Seventh Regiment of Illinois Volunteer Infantry, enlisting in August 1862. Trible was wounded in battle at Arkansas Post, Arkansas, in early 1863, and was brought home to Illinois, where he died.

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