TRUMBULL, JAMES HAMMOND An eminent Amen can philologist, born in Stott ington. Conn., and educated at Yale. Feeble health prevented the completion of his work as \yell as his entering neon active pro fessional life. After 1847 he was a resident of Hartford. From 1847 to 1852 and again from 1858 to 1861 he was Assistant Secretary of State, and from 1861 to 1865 was Secretary of State, of Connecticut. Ile was among the foremost of American philologists, and was a well-known writer on historical subjects of local interest. Ile also made a thorough study of the Indian tongues, and prepared a glossary of Eliot's Indian Bible. He was the State librarian in 1854-56, and from 1863 until his death was librarian of the Watkinson Library of Hartford; from 1849 to 1863 was secretary of the Connecti cut Historical Society, and was its president from 1863 until his death. He was one of the editors of the Colonial Records of Connecticut (15 vols.,
1850-90); he also edited the 31entorial History of Hartford County (1886) ; and he prepared an edition of T. Lechford's Plain Dealing (1867), and of Roger Williams's Key into the Indian Language (1866). His own publications in clude: Flue Composition of Indian. Geographical Names (1870) ; The Best Method of Studying the Indian Languages (1871) : Historical Notes on the Constitution of Connecticut (1872) ; The True Blue Laws of Connecticut, and the False Blue Laws Invented by Rey. Samuel Peters (1876) ; and Indian Names of Places in and on the Borders of Connecticut, with Interpretations (188'1). Ile also wrote numerous articles in his particular fields of study, and also secured fur ther recognition as a bibliographer by preparing the catalogue of George Brinley's library (1878 97 ).