Theresa Dodds

(Birth dates vary. -- Jessica German)

JULIAN TRUMBLY. The City of Pawhuska honored one of the most distinguished men of the old Osage Nation by naming for him one of its beautiful streets, Trumbly Avenue. The Trumbly family have their home at 119 North Trumbly Avenue. The late Julian Trumbly, while identified with Pawhuska from its beginning, spent the greater part of his active lifetime on his farm near the Kansas line, and died there May 20, 1912.

He was not only one of the pioneers and active members of the Osage Nation but a citizen whose interests extended in many directions, including large business affairs, and he was frequently delegated for official duties in connection with the tribal government and every position of honor and trust was well bestowed in his case.

Inheriting his Osage citizenship through his mother, Julian Trumbly was born at Kansas City, Kansas, September 13, 1850, a son of Francis Louis and Lorene Trumbly. His father was of French ancestry and his mother partly French and a quarter blood Osage. They were regularly enrolled among the tribe in Neosho County, Kansas, and both died at St. Paul in that state. They were survived by three sons: Francis, Julian and John Baptiste, all of whom are now deceased.

In the late ’60s Julian Trumbly accompanied the other members of the Osage tribe to Indian Territory and in company with the venerable Indian agent of that time, Isaac Gibson, assisted in locating the old agency at what is now Pawhuska. He was employed in a store for several years until after his marriage, and in 1875 moved to a farm near the state line in the Caney Valley, and for forty years that farm was his home and the center of his extended activities in business.

In 1906 Mr. Trumbly served as an Osage townsite commissioner, and helped to lay out all the towns in Osage County, including Pawhuska. He was prominent in tribal affairs from the early days and made many trips to Washington as an Osage delegate. He spent one entire winter, four months, in Washington acting for the Osage people in company with William T. Leahy. For many years he was a member of the Osage Council. and at one time declined the high honor of election as chief of the nation. In a business way the late Mr. Trumbly was interested in the Southern Kansas Supply Company of Elgin, was identified with the First National Bank of Pawhuska and had interests in three other banks, was a stockholder in the Pawhuska Oil & Gas Company and the Pawhuska-Cleveland Oil & Gas Company. For many years he gave active supervision to the large landed interests of his family, their aggregate allotment comprising about twelve sections of land. In politics Mr. Trumbly was a democrat, and was reared in and was always faith ful to the Catholic Church.

On February 10, 1873, he married Miss Eliza Ann Tinker, who was born in Neosho County, Kansas, September 11, 1854. and came to Indian Territory with the removal of the Osages from Southern Kansas. Her parents were George and Lucretia (La Shappel) Tinker, and through her mother she inherits one-fourth French blood and three-quarters Osage. The Tinker family has long been prominent in the Osage country, and further information concerning its members will be found on other pages. Mrs. Trumbly is still living at the old family residence in Pawhuska. She was the mother of nine children. George Francis is a farmer in Osage County. Mary E. is the wife of A. J. McClintock of Osage County. Maude C. is the wife of Bruce Todd of Osage County. Clarence A. is a merchant at Elgin, Kansas. Oliver W. lives on the old homestead in the northern part of Osage County. Henry is also a farmer in that county. Augusta is the wife of Bruce Hendricks, a farmer in the Caney Valley of Osage County. Charles was married February 14, 1915, to Minna A. Chambers, and they live in Pawhuska. Theresa, the youngest child, is still at home with her mother.

Bibliographic information:

• Title A Standard History of Oklahoma: An Authentic Narrative of Its Development from the Date of the First European Exploration Down to the Present Time, Including Accounts of the Indian Tribes, Both Civilized and Wild, of the Cattle Range, of the Land Openings and the Achievements of the ..., Volume 5
• Author Joseph Bradfield Thoburn
• Publisher American Historical Society, 1916
• Original from Harvard University
• Digitized Feb 12, 2009
• Page 2090
• https://books.google.com/books?id=Q4E_AAAAYAAJ&pg=PA2090&lpg=PA2090...

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