TRUMBULL, HENRY CLAY: Congregationalist; b. at Stonington, Conn., June 8, 1830; d. in West Philadelphia, Pa., Dec. 8, 1903. His education was chiefly private. He was in business from 1849 till 1858, when he became state missionary of the American Sunday School Union for Connecticut. On Sept. 10, 1862, he was ordained as a Congregational clergyman in order to go as chaplain to the Tenth Regiment Connecticut Volunteers, and was in the army service till Aug. 25, 1865 (prisoner of war in South Carolina and Virginia, 1863). From 1865 till 1871 he was secretary for the New England department of the American Sunday School Union; was normal secretary of the society till 1875, when he came to his final position, the editorship of The Sunday School Times, published in Philadelphia, of which he subsequently became owner and which he brought to the front rank of Sunday-school journalism. In consequence of his excessive labors he broke down in the winter of 1880 and in Jan., 1881, went for rest and recreation to Egypt and Palestine. He had no linguistic fitness for oriental or Biblical research, but he devoted much attention to archeology and wrote two volumes which display wide reading and have been well received. The first, Kadesh Barnes (New York, 1884), describes, justifies, and puts in its proper setting what has been accepted as the discovery of the true site of Kadesh Barnes, at gadees, visited on Mar. rb, 1881. The second was The Blood Covenant (1885). The last was supplemented by The Threshold Covenant (1896) and The Covenant of Salt (1899), both valuable. Considering how busy his life was, his authorship in the way of books was large, for, in addition to those men-

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tinned, he wrote five biographies, Henry Ward Camp (The Knightly Soldier, Boston, 1865); Elliot Beecher Preston (Hartford, 1866); John Wait Barton (Falling in Harness, Philadelphia, 1867); Henry Hatch Manning (The Captured Scout of the Army of the James, Boston, 1869); and Henry Philemon Haven (The Model Superintendent, New York, 1880), and several books on his specialty of Sunday-school instruction, The Sunday-school Concert (Boston, 1861); Teaching and Teachers (Philadelphia, 1885); The Sunday-school, its Origin, Mission, Methods and Auxiliaries (Yale lectures, 1888); and Principles and Practice (1889).

Bibliography: P. E. Howard, The Life Story of Henry Clay Trumbull, Philadelphia, 1905.