Memorial Record of Western Kentucky, Lewis Publishing Company, 1904,
pp 535-538 [Ballard]

     ISAAC NEWTON TRIMBLE is widely known in business circles and
honored and respected by all, and there is no man who occupies a
more enviable position as a representative of financial interests of
Wickliffe than does the subject of this review, who is now the
president of the First National Bank of Wickliffe.  His success in
all his undertakings has been so marked that his methods are of
interest to the business world.  He has based his business
principles and actions upon strict adherence to the rules which
govern industry, economy and unswerving integrity.  His enterprise
and progressive spirit have made him a typical American in every
sense of the word, and he well deserves mention in the history of western
Kentucky.  What he is to-day [sic] he has made himself, for
he began in the world with nothing save his own energy and willing
hands to aid him.  By constant exertion, associated with good
judgment, he has raised himself to the prominent position which he
now holds, having the friendship of many and the respect of all who
know him.
     Mr. Trimble was born on a farm in Livingston county, Kentucky,
February 14, 1862, and is a son of James A. and Eliza (Davis)
Trimble.  The father was born in Livingston county and spent his
entire life there with the exception of a brief period of four years
passed in California, at the time of the gold excitement on the
Pacific coast.  He has always carried on farming, and is now
following that pursuit at the age of sixty-two years.  He represents
one of the pioneer families of Livingston county, the grandfather of
our subject having there located at an early day.  James A. Trimble
was united in marriage to Eliza Davis, a native of Ballard county,
Kentucky, and a daughter of Joseph Davis, who settled in that county
when it was a frontier region.  Mrs. Trimble died in 1875, when
about thirty-eight years of age.  She had become the mother of eight
children, but only three are now living.
     Isaac N. Trimble is the only representative of the family in
Ballard county.  He was reared in Livingston county until he reached
the age of seventeen years, and during that time acquired a fair
common school education.  Upon leaving the home he went to
Blandville, then the county seat of Ballard county.  His uncle, W.
H. Davis, was then serving as sheriff of that county, and Mr.
Trimble became deputy sheriff, in which capacity he served for seven
years, under his uncle and his successors.  There was a brief
interval, however, during his service, for in 1882 he went to
Paducah, where he engaged as a clerk in a mercantile house, carrying
dry-goods, boots and shoes, and owned by George T. Irvin & Company. 
He occupied that position for eight months and then returned to
Ballard county, where he again became deputy sheriff.  Later Mr.
Trimble engaged in farming for three years near Hazelwood, Kentucky,
and in 1895 came to Wickliffe, where he has since been a prominent
representative of financial interests.  His name figures
conspicuously in the history of banking business of this place.  On
locating here he was made president of the Bank of Wickliffe and
later became the president of the Bank of Western Kentucky.  On the
organization of the First National Bank he was chosen as the chief
officer of the institution, and under his guidance this enterprise
has become one of the strong financial concerns of the county.  For
a short time Mr. Trimble also conducted a private bank in Wickliffe,
but discontinued this on the organization of the Bank of Western
Kentucky.
     In 1887 Mr. Trimble was united in marriage to Miss Joanna
Davis, of Ballard county, and they have three children.  Exerting his
right of franchise in support of the men and measures of the
Democracy, Mr. Trimble has always been found as an unfaltering
supporter of the party.  He is a member of the Methodist Episcopal
church, South, and has been deeply interested in whatever pertains
to the growth of the county along material, social and intellectual
and moral lines.  In business affairs he is energetic, prompt and
notably reliable, and while he has gained prosperity it has not been
alone the goal for which he has striven, for he belongs to that
class of representative American citizens who promote the general
welfare while advancing individual interests. 

Trimble Davis Irvin
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Livingston-KY McCracken-KY

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