Los Angeles Times – February 2, 1910:
TRAVELS ENDED
BLAZED TRAILS FOR PIONEERS
Explorer and Pathfinder Dies in This City
Was Grand Nephew of Gen. Harrison ("Old Tippecanoe") the Indian Fighter and President – Simple Funeral Services to Be Held This Morning, Burial in Rosedale.
Identified with the opening of the Great West since the days of his young manhood, George Harrison Trook, whose mother was Damaris Rambow Trook, a niece of Gen. William Henry Harrison, died at his home, No. 1338 South Olive street, Monday night, at the age of 79 years. The funeral service will be held at the undertaking parlors of the Dexter-Samson Company, No. 1132 South Flower street, at 10 o'clock this morning, and burial will be in Rosedale Cemetery.
Trook was born September 10, 1830, in Edinburgh, Va., and became an employé in the State Department at Washington while still a very young man. In 1853 he was assigned to one of the government exploring expeditions which preceded the regular Geodetic Survey, in Eastern Oregon and Idaho. Again in the early sixties Trook was engaged in exploration work, and carried his life in his hands for months at a time in those old days of unknown trails.
The father of Trook won Miss Damaris Rambow, the belle of old Nashville, Tenn., in 1828, a time when there was no other city of prominence on the Mississippi between St. Louis and New Orleans, and carried off the niece of Gen. Harrison, afterward President of the United States, to his home in Virginia, and later to Washington.
Lysander H. Trook, head of one of the important bureaus of the State Department having to do with statistics, helped with his influence to have his cousin, George H. Trook, appointed to the coveted position in the exploring expedition under Gare in the West. Trook made his report to Congress on the great Territory of Idaho just before the close of the Civil War, only echoes of which reached him in the wilderness.
For twenty years Trook was engaged in opening the paths of the West and helping to make the land better known. In 1870 he settled in Missouri, where, at Mound City, in 1882, he was married to Miss Gertrude Whobrey. But it was getting pretty crowded in Missouri for the former explorer, and in 1885 he moved to the frontier at Phoenix, Ariz. For nearly twenty years Trook was identified with the growth and building up of that part of Arizona. In 1902 he retired and, with his family, made his home in Los Angeles. Besides a widow, he leaves a son, Alpha R. Trook of San Diego, and two daughters, Mrs. Anna Virginia MacKaye of Honolulu, Hawaii, whose husband is a relative of President Taft, and Miss Doris Damaris Trook of this city. Mr. Trook was a member of the Arizona Lodge, No. 2, F. and A. M. of Phoenix.
TRAVELS ENDED
BLAZED TRAILS FOR PIONEERS
Explorer and Pathfinder Dies in This City
Was Grand Nephew of Gen. Harrison ("Old Tippecanoe") the Indian Fighter and President – Simple Funeral Services to Be Held This Morning, Burial in Rosedale.
Identified with the opening of the Great West since the days of his young manhood, George Harrison Trook, whose mother was Damaris Rambow Trook, a niece of Gen. William Henry Harrison, died at his home, No. 1338 South Olive street, Monday night, at the age of 79 years. The funeral service will be held at the undertaking parlors of the Dexter-Samson Company, No. 1132 South Flower street, at 10 o'clock this morning, and burial will be in Rosedale Cemetery.
Trook was born September 10, 1830, in Edinburgh, Va., and became an employé in the State Department at Washington while still a very young man. In 1853 he was assigned to one of the government exploring expeditions which preceded the regular Geodetic Survey, in Eastern Oregon and Idaho. Again in the early sixties Trook was engaged in exploration work, and carried his life in his hands for months at a time in those old days of unknown trails.
The father of Trook won Miss Damaris Rambow, the belle of old Nashville, Tenn., in 1828, a time when there was no other city of prominence on the Mississippi between St. Louis and New Orleans, and carried off the niece of Gen. Harrison, afterward President of the United States, to his home in Virginia, and later to Washington.
Lysander H. Trook, head of one of the important bureaus of the State Department having to do with statistics, helped with his influence to have his cousin, George H. Trook, appointed to the coveted position in the exploring expedition under Gare in the West. Trook made his report to Congress on the great Territory of Idaho just before the close of the Civil War, only echoes of which reached him in the wilderness.
For twenty years Trook was engaged in opening the paths of the West and helping to make the land better known. In 1870 he settled in Missouri, where, at Mound City, in 1882, he was married to Miss Gertrude Whobrey. But it was getting pretty crowded in Missouri for the former explorer, and in 1885 he moved to the frontier at Phoenix, Ariz. For nearly twenty years Trook was identified with the growth and building up of that part of Arizona. In 1902 he retired and, with his family, made his home in Los Angeles. Besides a widow, he leaves a son, Alpha R. Trook of San Diego, and two daughters, Mrs. Anna Virginia MacKaye of Honolulu, Hawaii, whose husband is a relative of President Taft, and Miss Doris Damaris Trook of this city. Mr. Trook was a member of the Arizona Lodge, No. 2, F. and A. M. of Phoenix.
Los Angeles Times – February 2, 1910:
TRAVELS ENDED
BLAZED TRAILS FOR PIONEERS
Explorer and Pathfinder Dies in This City
Was Grand Nephew of Gen. Harrison ("Old Tippecanoe") the Indian Fighter and President – Simple Funeral Services to Be Held This Morning, Burial in Rosedale.
Identified with the opening of the Great West since the days of his young manhood, George Harrison Trook, whose mother was Damaris Rambow Trook, a niece of Gen. William Henry Harrison, died at his home, No. 1338 South Olive street, Monday night, at the age of 79 years. The funeral service will be held at the undertaking parlors of the Dexter-Samson Company, No. 1132 South Flower street, at 10 o'clock this morning, and burial will be in Rosedale Cemetery.
Trook was born September 10, 1830, in Edinburgh, Va., and became an employé in the State Department at Washington while still a very young man. In 1853 he was assigned to one of the government exploring expeditions which preceded the regular Geodetic Survey, in Eastern Oregon and Idaho. Again in the early sixties Trook was engaged in exploration work, and carried his life in his hands for months at a time in those old days of unknown trails.
The father of Trook won Miss Damaris Rambow, the belle of old Nashville, Tenn., in 1828, a time when there was no other city of prominence on the Mississippi between St. Louis and New Orleans, and carried off the niece of Gen. Harrison, afterward President of the United States, to his home in Virginia, and later to Washington.
Lysander H. Trook, head of one of the important bureaus of the State Department having to do with statistics, helped with his influence to have his cousin, George H. Trook, appointed to the coveted position in the exploring expedition under Gare in the West. Trook made his report to Congress on the great Territory of Idaho just before the close of the Civil War, only echoes of which reached him in the wilderness.
For twenty years Trook was engaged in opening the paths of the West and helping to make the land better known. In 1870 he settled in Missouri, where, at Mound City, in 1882, he was married to Miss Gertrude Whobrey. But it was getting pretty crowded in Missouri for the former explorer, and in 1885 he moved to the frontier at Phoenix, Ariz. For nearly twenty years Trook was identified with the growth and building up of that part of Arizona. In 1902 he retired and, with his family, made his home in Los Angeles. Besides a widow, he leaves a son, Alpha R. Trook of San Diego, and two daughters, Mrs. Anna Virginia MacKaye of Honolulu, Hawaii, whose husband is a relative of President Taft, and Miss Doris Damaris Trook of this city. Mr. Trook was a member of the Arizona Lodge, No. 2, F. and A. M. of Phoenix.
TRAVELS ENDED
BLAZED TRAILS FOR PIONEERS
Explorer and Pathfinder Dies in This City
Was Grand Nephew of Gen. Harrison ("Old Tippecanoe") the Indian Fighter and President – Simple Funeral Services to Be Held This Morning, Burial in Rosedale.
Identified with the opening of the Great West since the days of his young manhood, George Harrison Trook, whose mother was Damaris Rambow Trook, a niece of Gen. William Henry Harrison, died at his home, No. 1338 South Olive street, Monday night, at the age of 79 years. The funeral service will be held at the undertaking parlors of the Dexter-Samson Company, No. 1132 South Flower street, at 10 o'clock this morning, and burial will be in Rosedale Cemetery.
Trook was born September 10, 1830, in Edinburgh, Va., and became an employé in the State Department at Washington while still a very young man. In 1853 he was assigned to one of the government exploring expeditions which preceded the regular Geodetic Survey, in Eastern Oregon and Idaho. Again in the early sixties Trook was engaged in exploration work, and carried his life in his hands for months at a time in those old days of unknown trails.
The father of Trook won Miss Damaris Rambow, the belle of old Nashville, Tenn., in 1828, a time when there was no other city of prominence on the Mississippi between St. Louis and New Orleans, and carried off the niece of Gen. Harrison, afterward President of the United States, to his home in Virginia, and later to Washington.
Lysander H. Trook, head of one of the important bureaus of the State Department having to do with statistics, helped with his influence to have his cousin, George H. Trook, appointed to the coveted position in the exploring expedition under Gare in the West. Trook made his report to Congress on the great Territory of Idaho just before the close of the Civil War, only echoes of which reached him in the wilderness.
For twenty years Trook was engaged in opening the paths of the West and helping to make the land better known. In 1870 he settled in Missouri, where, at Mound City, in 1882, he was married to Miss Gertrude Whobrey. But it was getting pretty crowded in Missouri for the former explorer, and in 1885 he moved to the frontier at Phoenix, Ariz. For nearly twenty years Trook was identified with the growth and building up of that part of Arizona. In 1902 he retired and, with his family, made his home in Los Angeles. Besides a widow, he leaves a son, Alpha R. Trook of San Diego, and two daughters, Mrs. Anna Virginia MacKaye of Honolulu, Hawaii, whose husband is a relative of President Taft, and Miss Doris Damaris Trook of this city. Mr. Trook was a member of the Arizona Lodge, No. 2, F. and A. M. of Phoenix.
Family Members
Sponsored by Ancestry
Advertisement
Advertisement
