When John Jesse Trimmer was born on 22 September 1864, in Bethany, Brooke, West Virginia, United States, his father, James Trimmer, was 36 and his mother, Sarah Jane Hedges, was 29. He married Emma Lenore Drysdale on 22 December 1893, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 daughters. He lived in Buffalo District, Brooke, West Virginia, United States in 1870. He died on 28 May 1902, in Sandy, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, at the age of 37, and was buried in Utah, United States.
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Abraham Lincoln is assassinated by John Wilkes Booth.
Historical Boundaries: 1871: Salt Lake, Utah Territory, United States 1896: Salt Lake, Utah, United States
In the Mid 1870s, The United States sought out the Kingdom of Hawaii to make a free trade agreement. The Treaty gave the Hawaiians access to the United States agricultural markets and it gave the United States a part of land which later became Pearl Harbor.
English (mainly Hampshire):
occupational name from Middle English trimmer, a derivative of the verb trimmen (Old English trymman) which had multiple meanings, including ‘to strengthen, confirm, make ready’. The modern sense ‘to cut, trim’ is not attested in Middle English literature, but it is possible that the surname was for someone who cut something, perhaps cloth.
perhaps occasionally from the Middle English personal name Triamor, of uncertain origin but found as the name of an Egyptian ruler in Alexandria in the medieval romance Guy of Warwick. It remained in use for many years in a Baldwin family from the Hertfordshire area.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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