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The History of West Virginia, Old and New
Published 1923, The American Historical Society, Inc.,
Chicago and New York, Volume III, pg. 115
CHARLES S. TRUMP. Prominent among the younger
generation of legists at the Berkeley County bar is found
Charles Samuel Trump, who has already displayed profes-
sional ability of a high order and has made rapid strides
in his calling. Mr. Trump is a veteran of the World war,
in which he suffered wounds, and is an energetic, forceful
and capable representative of the kind of citizenship which
in recent years has brought West Virginia prominently to
the forefront in various avenues of endeavor.
Mr. Trump was born at Martinsburg, West Virginia,
January 18, 1891, and is a son of Rev. Charles Trump, a
native of Carroll County, Maryland, born in 1855. The
grandfather of Mr. Trump was George Trump, born in
1807, in Carroll County, Maryland, being a son of Frederick
Trump, also a native of Carroll County, whose father was
Von Johannes Trump, who was born in Holland in 1736 and
came to America during Colonial days, settling in Maryland
and fighting with the Colonial forces during the War of the
Revolution. He died in 1815, while his wife, Catherine
Schloegel, who was born in Holland in 1738, died in 1823.
Frederick Trump was a merchant in Carroll County, Mary-
land, and spent his entire life there. He married Elizabeth
Krantz, who was born in the same county and died in 1888,
aged seventy years. Cornelius Trump, a great-uncle of
Charles S. Trump, was a soldier in the Union army during
the war between the states, and was captured and for a time
confined in Libby Prison.
Rev. Charles Trump took an academic course at the West-
ern Maryland College, Westminster, Maryland, and after
graduation therefrom entered the Lutheran Seminary at
Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, being graduated from the theo-
logical department of that institution. At that time he
located at Harpers Ferry, as pastor of the Lutheran Church
there, and in addition to his ministerial duties engaged in
teaching school. After two years Reverend Trump removed
to Centerville, Pennsylvania, where he was pastor of the
old stone church of the Lutheran faith located there, and in
1888 resigned that pastorate to accept a call to St. John's
Lutheran Church at Martinsburg. Here he labored faith-
fully and effectively until his greatly-mourned death in
October, 1919. He married Eva Schick, who was born at
Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, and she survives him as a resi-
dent of Baltimore, Maryland. She reared five children:
Harold, Mary B., S. Elizabeth, Charles Samuel and Frank
M. Mr. Trump's maternal great-grandfather was John
Lawrence Schick, Sr., who died in 1834. He married Susan
Holtzworth, of Lancaster, Pennsylvania, in November, 1819.
He was born in Duerscheim, Germany, January 22, 1793,
and came from there to America, September 20, 1818, and
settled in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. His son, John Lawrence
Schick, the maternal grandfather of Mr. Trump, married
Sarah Welty. He was born December 25, 1822. When he
was a young child his parents moved to Gettysburg, Penn-
sylvania, where he died in 1913, aged ninety-one years. He
was a strong Unionist, and while he never served in the war
he gave liberally to the cause. He served many years as
treasurer of the Gettysburg Battlefield Memorial Associa-
tion.
Charles S. Trump attended the public schools of Martins-
burg, completing his high school course at the East High
School, Columbus, Ohio, following which he enrolled as a
student at West Virginia University, Morgantown, where
he completed an academic course of one year and then en-
tered upon a three-year law course. He was still at the
university when the United States became embroiled in the
World war, and in 1917 he enlisted in the United States
service, being first stationed at Camp Benjamin Harrison,
Indiana, where he was commissioned a second lieutenant and
assigned first to the Eighty-third Division, from which
he was transferred to the Thirty-seventh Division and later
to the Seventy-ninth Division, with which he went overseas
in December, 1917. Going to the front in France, he par-
ticipated in various skirmishes and battles until the severe
engagement at Montfaucon, which the Americans captured
September 27, 1918, when he was wounded. He was at once
sent to a base hospital, in which he was still confined when
the armistice was signed, and as soon as he had sufficiently
recovered was placed in charge of Blois Casual Company
No. 311 and returned to the United States. Upon his ar
rival he was assigned to duty at Camp Upton, where he
remained until August 13, 1919, and was then honorably
discharged. Returning to the university, he resumed his
studies and was graduated in 1920 with the degree of
Bachelor of Laws. Admitted to the bar, he at once com-
menced following his profession at Martinsburg, where he
has since built up a large and lucrative practice.
On March 30, 1917, Mr. Trump was united in marriage
with Miss Rose Lee LaVelle, who was born at Uniontown,
West Virginia, daughter of Thomas M. and Susan LaVelle,
and to this union there have been born two children, Belle
Lee and Jeanne LaVelle. Mr. and Mrs. Trump belong to
St. John's Lutheran Church. He is a member of Washing-
ton Lodge No. 1, Knights of Pythias, and the American
Legion.
Submitted by: Valerie Crook <vfcrook@trellis.net>
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