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JAMES HAMMOND TRUMBULL (1821-1897)

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Originally appearing in Volume V27, Page 324 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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JAMES See also:HAMMOND See also:TRUMBULL (1821-1897)  , See also:American See also:scholar, was See also:born in See also:Stonington, See also:Connecticut, on the loth of See also:December 1821 . He studied at Yale, but See also:ill-See also:health prevented his See also:graduation . He was See also:state librarian in 1854-1855, assistant-secretary of state of Connecticut in 1847-1852 and in 1858-1861, and secretary of state in 1861-1866; and was a prominent member of the Connecticut See also:Historical Society, of which he was See also:president in 1863-1889, the See also:National See also:Academy of See also:Science, to which he was elected in 1872, and of other learned See also:societies . He died in See also:Hartford on the 5th of See also:August 1897 . He wrote Historical Notes on some Provisions of the Connecticut Statutes (186o-1861) and The True See also:Blue See also:Laws of Connecticut (1876), and edited The Colonial Records of Connecticut (3 vols., 1850-1859) . He is better known, however, as a student of the See also:Indian dialects of New See also:England . He edited See also:Roger See also:Williams's See also:Key to the See also:Language of See also:America (1866), and wrote The See also:Composition of Indian See also:Geographical Names (1870), The Best Methods of Studying the Indian See also:Languages (1871), Indian Names of Places in ... Connecticut with Interpretations (1881) and other See also:works on similar subjects .

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