Henry Clay Trumbull

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Henry Clay Trumbull (1830-1903) was an American clergyman and author, born at Stonington, Conn., and educated at Williston Seminary, at Yale, and at the University of New York. He was ordained a Congregational minister, served as chaplain of the Tenth Connecticut Regiment in 1862-65, and was in several Confederate prisons. In 1875 he became editor of the Sunday School Times. He wrote:

• The Knightly Soldier (1865)
• Kadesh-Barnea (1883)
• Principles and Practices (1889)
• Studies in Oriental Social Life (1894)
• War Memories of an Army Chaplain (1898)
• Old-Time Student Volunteers (1902)
• Personal Prayer, posthumously presented (1915)

He was the brother of James Hammond Trumbull.

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