I just posted this to my KYBIOGRAPHIES list and thought the readers of this list might enjoy reading about one of our former citizens. Sandi A History of Kentucky and Kentuckians, The Leaders and Representative Men in Commerce, Industry and Modern Activities. By E. Polk Johnson, Volume III, Illustrated. The Lewis Publishing Company, Chicago-New York, 1912. HAIDEN C. TRIGG is one of the noblest examples of splendid business ability, of well balanced judgment and perseverance, of high integrity and extreme philanthropy of character, and all in all virility and symmetry of manhood such as are without example in the ole Blue Grass Commonwealth. He set forth on his journey of life some seventy-seven years ago, under the rapidly shifting skies of success and adversity, and through years burning with intense energy and devotion to the manifold affairs of life he has come to a ripe old age with undimmed alertness and clearness of mentality and judgment and rejoices that he can still carry the burden which would overwhelm most men of half his years. The history of his active career begins with a beautiful resolution, and nobility of purpose and strength of character have marked his life history. He has been interested in a number of different financial projects during his active career and has won renown in mercantile affairs, in the banking business and in railroading. He has long been a popular and prominent resident of Glasgow, Barren county, Kentucky. On a splendid far eligibly located some three miles distant from Glasgow, occurred the birth of Haiden C. Trigg, the date of his nativity being the 27th of May, 1834. He is a son of Alanson Trigg and of Mary Frances (Martin) Trigg. The paternal grandfather of him whose name initiates this review was born in the year 1765, in Bedford county, Virginia, whence he migrated to Barren county, Kentucky, about 1801. He was one of the original party that laid out the city of Glasgow and he was one of the first men to represent Barren county in the state legislature. In 1870 he moved from Kentucky to Winchester, Tennessee, where he passed the closing years of his life. Of his nine children seven accompanied him to Tennessee, one daughter, Fannie Curd, and another son, Alanson, remaining in Kentucky. Alanson Trig was born in Virginia in 1791 and was a child of but ten years of age at the time of his parents’ removal to Kentucky. During his life time Alanson Trigg was a farmer, a merchant and a banker and in each of those enterprises he achieved marked and gratifying success. He was summoned to the life eternal in 1873 at the venerable age of eighty-two years, his death having occurred on the old Trigg estate near Glasgow. Alanson Trigg married Mary Frances Martin and they became the parents of ten children, of whom the subject of this notice was the oldest son and the sole survivor in 1911. Haiden C. Trigg received his elementary educational training in the common schools of Barren county and later he supplemented thata discipline with study in Urania College, at Glasgow, Kentucky. When a youth of nineteen years of age he left home and went to the city of Louisville, where he engaged in the hardware business. His health becoming impaired, however, he returned to Glasgow and in 1866 there established the bank of Gorin, Trigg & Company, his partner in this enterprise having been Thomas J. Gorin, who retired from the banking business in 1873. Thereafter until 1900 Mr. Trigg continued his banking concern under the name of Trigg & Company, his business associates having been John T. Hawkins, S. G. Snoddy and T. P. Dickinson. During the entire period of the bank’s existence it has weathered the various financial storms and has never failed to meet its obligations, holding as a sacred trust all deposits and ever being ready to respond with cash whenever called upon. In 1900 the bank of Trigg & Company was nationalized and at that time Mr. Trigg retired from active participation in banking business, having been identified with that field of endeavor for fully forty-five years. He has been president of the Glasgow Railroad Company for the past twenty years, and in 1900, with others, he purchased that road, retaining his office as president. In earlier years he was also engaged in the general merchandise business, but he now confines his attention to his extensive railroad and property interests. He is a man who has climbed to affluence mainly through his own efforts and for that reason his success in life is the more gratifying to contemplate. Mr. Trigg has been twice married, his first union having been to Miss Bettie Hawkins, who bore him two children, of whom one died in infancy and the other, Litie, is now the wife of Hon. C. U. McElroy, of Bowling Green, Kentucky. Mrs. Trigg passed to the life eternal in 1865 and subsequently, Mr. Trigg was united in marriage to Miss Anne Carter Ballard, of Louisville, Kentucky. This union was prolific of nine children, concerning whom the following brief data are here incorporated: Louise B. [suc] is a practicing physician and surgeon at Glasgow, having been graduated in the Louisville College of Medicine; Charlotte is the wife of John V. Vreeland, of Louisville; Haidee is the wife of T. P. Dickinson, of Glasgow, and concerning his career a sketch appears on other pages of this work; Mary Frances is the wife of J. W. Krueger, of New York; Pearl Bertha is the wife of Hon. W. Morgan Shuster, and they formerly resided at Washington, D,. C.; he is now treasurer general and financial advisor to the Persian government; Alanson maintains his home at Glasgow, where he is cashier of the Trigg National Bank; Paul Dudley is the employee of the Glasgow Railroad Company, with headquarters at Glasgow; Herbert Blanton is engaged in the banking business at Los Angeles, California; and R. Ballard is in the insurance business in Glasgow. In his political affiliations Mr. Trigg, of this review, is a stanch advocate of the principles and policies for which the Democratic party stands sponsor. He has never aspired to public office of any description, but is ever ready to give of his aid and influence in support of all measures and enterprises advanced for the progress and development of this section of the state. While not formally connected with any religious organizations he is nevertheless decidedly a Christian man – of large heart and great benevolence. In his home he has a “Prophet’s Chamber,” where ministers and other good men are frequently entertained. Although fairly well advanced in years Haiden C. Trigg still retains in much of their pristine vigor the splendid mental and physical qualities of his youth. This is due in large measure to the fact that he is a natural born sportsman, one who is fond of all kinds of healthy out-of-door exercise, his one big hobby being the chase. Mr. Trigg’s sporting nature is well known along the line of the dog and gun and he has given to the hunting world a superior breed of fox hounds, call the “Trigg dog,” which he describes fully in his work, “The American Fox Hunt,” a volume compiled from celebrated letters of Mr. Trigg’s personal correspondence with noted sportsmen of Virginia and other states, the same covering a life-long experience. Mr. Trigg has come by his great love for the chase through inheritance, his mother having been the great-granddaughter of Dr. Thomas Walker and Mildred (Meriwether) Walker, of Castle Hill, Virginia, and a granddaughter of Nicholas and Mary (Walker) Lewis, of Albemarle county, Virginia, persons of great wealth and leisure whose pastime consisted chiefly in the importance of thoroughbred horses and fine hunting dogs and who were ever responsive to the mellow notes of the horn over the mountains of old Virginia. Mr. Trigg because of his great love of fox hunting has been frequently referred to as the Nimrod of Kentucky. He is a great breeder of fine dogs, the Trigg breed of fox hounds having been shipped to all parts of the South and even to far distant California. It is the fresh air and healthy sport that keeps one young in these days of strenuous activity and while Mr. Trigg has covered quite a number of years he is as young in spirit as he was half a century ago. He is the grand old man of Barren county and is everywhere beloved and respected on account of his exemplary life and broad human sympathy. He is very public-spirited and has in many ways given his efforts and influence for the upbuilding and advancement of the county which has represented his home and the field of his endeavor for so many years. His activities have touched upon many lines relating to the business development, the fraternal and social growth and progress of the city. His genial manner, his genuine worth of character and strong personal traits have won for him the regard and friendship of the vast majority of those with whom he has come in contact and made him a representative citizen of Glasgow.