Jacob Shilling TROUT

                   William started his life work as a millwright in Sharon, Pa.  As a result of this training he build 12 quartz mills in Colorado.  After 18 months at Eureka, Nevada, wher he was a master mechanic in a refinery, he came to Colorado in 1876.  Building mills in Rosita and Pueblo, Colorado, he then headed for the gold country of the San Juan Mountains of Colorado.  Rosita is a mining town in the Wet Mountain Valley about 30 miles from Canon City where gold was discoverred there in 1857.   William was a banker in California.
                  

                   Alfaretta married Reuben Howell.
                  

                   Michael settled in Colorado.  He had no children.
                  

                   After marriage she moved to Anaconda and later settled in Deer Lodge, Montana.  Her husband was E.R. Powell.  Deer Lodkge is the location of the Old Montana Territorial Prison, started in1870 and closed in 1979.  It was also the location of the giant Grant-Kohrs cattle ranch whose range lands covered much of the State of Montana in the time span of 1850-1890.  Both are now National Historic Sites.

Whend she married her second husband they moved to Inglewood, California.
                  

                   She passed away at her home in Hickory Twp., Mercer Co., Pa. after a lingering illness from cancer.  She was a lifelong resident of this community.  She died on the same farm that she was born at.  She was a member of the First Methodist Church of West Middlesex.
                  

                   After finishin school, he took a business course to learn Building Construction.  It was believed he went with his brother Michael Egbert to the new town of  Columbia, later changed to Telluride, Colorado where their older brother, William Henry was very influential.  George was only 25 years of age when he was on a Petit Jury in Columbia in 1883.  He later moved to Ute City, Colorado,  not because of the Silver Boom of 1884, but for the construction boom.  They lived in Canon City, Fremont Co., Colorado in 1906.

Lakter Gedorge Elmer with partner Fred A. Coady owned and operated an Ice-Skating Rink in Aspen.  In 1893, soon after the silver was demonetized and the resulting panic caused general unempl,oyment,  he abandoned the rink and went to Canon City to pick stawberries for the summer for his brother Will.

About 1900 through 1903 he was a prosperous general contractor building many prominetn buildings including his Uncle Will's 19 room brick home along with the First United Presbyterian Church and the Christ Epikscopal Church.

A little after that time, in 1903, he purchased a 160 acre hay and cattle ranch in the Wet Mountain Valley of Hillside, Cuter County, Colorado.  It was at this rancy that his father Jacob Shilling Trout died in 1910 after being involved with a runaway horse team pulling a hay mower.  George sold the ranch in 1948 to his son Fred and grandson Billy William Frederick Trout.  They later sold the ranch to Noble Austin who had been a share cropper on the ranch.

George and his son Fred served about a year during World War 1 in an encampment at Trinadad, Colorado to protect the coal and steel mines and mills from the dangerous activities of the I.W.W. Group (I Won't Work)

In 1922 he made an arrangement with the Gibson Lumber Co., in Anaheim to work with them. The family then moved that year to Anaheim, California.  He entered into a prosperous contracting business untill the Depression hit in 1933.  He built many church and school buildings in Anaheim, Placentia, and Fullerton, California.  He received his 32nd degree in the Masonic Order on 4/9/1903 and his 50 year presentation letter on 4/1/1955.