Issac and Jacob Trout Papers

1212 THL

Scope and Content: This collection contains business and personal correspondence (1825-1869), ledgers (1821-1872), demand notes (1831-1860), and an indenture (1823) concerning the Trout Family of Front Royal, VA. Also included is a paper entitled, “Issac and Jacob Trout Papers” (1992) by Connie Conte and other miscellaneous papers.
(1 box) Last updated 03/04.

Biographical/Historical: Issac (b. 1790) and Jacob (b. 1792) were two of nine children born to Philip Trout, a wheelwright in Front Royal, VA. When Philip Trout died in 1812, Issac and Jacob ran the factory on Chester Street. In 1830, Issac married Araminta Pagett and had six children, four of whom died in infancy. The brothers had a successful wagon building business, which received orders from as far away as Florida. Issac died in 1873 at the age of 83 and Jacob died in 1853 at age 61.

Cite As: Issac and Jacob Trout Papers, 1212 THL, Stewart Bell Jr. Archives, Handley Regional Library, Winchester, VA, USA.

Organization:

Box 1

Trout Family - business and personal correspondence, 20 items
Wagon business correspondence, 1845-1851, 10 leaves, manuscript
Personal correspondence, 1825-1869, 10 items, manuscript

Trout Family - demand notes, 1831-1860, unnumbered items, manuscript

Trout Family - ledger, 1837-1839, 1856, 1859, 1 item, manuscript

Trout Family - ledger sheets, 1821-1872, unnumbered items, manuscript

Trout Family - indenture, between Simon Yaeger and Issac and Jacob Trout, 1823, 1 item, manuscript

"Issac and Jacob Trout Papers," paper by Connie Conte [1992], 47 leaves, typescript (photocopy)

S. D. Boyd papers, unnumbered items, manuscript
Boyd-Woodward papers, S. D. Boyd - notes, 1853-1895, Boyd - miscellaneous papers

Miscellaneous papers, unnumbered items, manuscript

Winchester – miscellaneous
Deeds, 1847-1859, 10 items, manuscript
Ledger sheets, 1855-1872, 21 leaves, manuscript

District Court brief for Castleman/Opie, Wheeling, WV [1880], 1 item, 17 pages, printed