Henry Clay Trumbull was an American

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 clergyman and author, born on June 8, 1830, at Stonington

Stonington, Connecticut

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, Connecticut

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, and educated at Williston Northampton School

Williston Northampton School

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. He became a world famous editor, author, and pioneer of the Sunday School Movement. Poor health kept him from formal education past the age of fourteen. He earned three honorary degrees from Yale

Yale University

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, Lafayette and the University of New York

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. He was ordained a Congregational

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 minister, served as chaplain

Chaplain

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 of the Tenth Connecticut Regiment in 1862-65, and was in several Confederate

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 prisons. In 1875 he became editor of the Sunday School Times.

One of his brothers was James Hammond Trumbull

James Hammond Trumbull

James Hammond Trumbull was an American scholar and philologist.He was born in Stonington, Connecticut. He studied at Tracy's Academy in Norwich and at Yale University from 1838, but ill-health prevented his graduation, he was enrolled in 1850 and received an honorary LLD in 1871...

, and one of his sisters was Annie Trumbull Slosson

Annie Trumbull Slosson

Annie Trumbull Slosson was an author and entomologist. She was the daughter of Gurdon Trumbull and Sarah Ann Trumbull of Stonington, Connecticut. Her father, Gurdon Trumbull was originally from Norwich...

.

Published works

• The Knightly Soldier (1865)
• Kadesh-Barnea
  Kadesh (South of Israel)
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  (1883)
• Principles and Practices (1889)
• Hints on Child Training (1890)
• A Lie Never Justifiable, A Study in Ethics (1893)
• Studies in Oriental Social Life (1894)
• The threshold covenant or the beginning of religious rites (1896)
• War Memories of an Army Chaplain (1898)
• Old-Time Student Volunteers (1902)
• Personal Prayer, posthumously presented (1915)
• The Blood Covenant
• The Salt Covenant
• Trumball, Henry Clay (1891). Friendship: The Master-Passion or The Nature and History of Friendship, and Its Place as a Force in the World, first printing of new edition (2005), Solid Ground Christian Books, Birmingham, AL USA, Introductory Essay by Maurice Roberts ISBN 1-59925-030-6