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Trimble (family)
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Andrew Hill Trimble, 1846-1936, was born at Pembroke, Ontario. He served in a militia regiment during the Fenian Raids, and learned the trade of cheese making. He married Cynthia Wright, d. 1886, and they had eight sons, Horace, Albert, Herbert, Frederick, Benjamin, William, Garnet, and Clarence. In 1888 he married his second cousin Lydia Anne Trimble, and they had five children, Amy (Prout), Roy, Janie (Rogers) (Orme), Gladys, and Delmer. In 1889 the family migrated to southern Alberta, and in 1890 settled in the Red Deer area, where they established several farms and creameries in Red Deer and in the Clearview and Pine Lake districts. Herbert Willard "Herb" Trimble, b. 1875, took over the management of the Trimble Creamery in Red Deer and was also a partner in a fox ranch. He married Levina Brett, and they had three children, Willard, Velma (Bell), and Elaine (Henderson). Willard Dean Trimble, 1904-1969, operated a sign painting and postcard business in Red Deer. He married Emily Margaret Sveinson, 1904?-1996, and they had three children, Gary, Joan (Snell), and Dawn (Hansen).