George Trout (1843-1911)

TROUT

Posted By: Anne Hermann (email)
Date: 4/22/2010 at 16:06:42

Maquoketa Excelsior-Record, August 25, 1911

OBITUARY

George Trout

George Trout, of Wamego, Kansas, a brother of Thomas and Frank Trout of Maquoketa and a frequent visitor to this his former home, died at Wamego, on August 7, 1911, the result of a paralytic stroke four weeks previous to his death. He was a man of much energy and accumulated a fortune estimated at $150,000. He leaves to mourn him a wife and two daughters, besides the brothers, and a host of warm personal friends. Mr. Trout was 68 years of age, and was born near Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, in 1843. He moved with his parents to Maquoketa, where he resided until the commencement of the Civil War when he enlisted in the Ninth Iowa Infantry as a private, and served three years. After the war Mr. Trout went to Topeka, Kansas, where he worked at his trade as a tinsmith. He thought, however, that Wamego offered better opportunities and went there in 1867, where he opened a tin shop and put in a small stock of goods. From time to time he engaged in other enterprises and investments, which were successful, almost without exception.

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