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==Biography== Governor Trimble was born Hugh Allen Trimble in [[Augusta County, Virginia]] to James Trimble, [[U.S. Revolutionary War|Revolutionary War]] veteran, and Jane Allen Trimble.<ref name="histsoc">{{cite web|url=http://www.ohiohistory.org/onlinedoc/ohgovernment/governors/trimble.html |title=Allen Trimble |publisher=Ohio Historical Society |access-date=July 11, 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120516024430/http://www.ohiohistory.org/onlinedoc/ohgovernment/governors/trimble.html |archive-date=May 16, 2012 }}</ref> He was of [[Scots-Irish American|Ulster Scots]] ancestry.<ref>Scotland's mark on America By George Fraser Black page 57</ref> In October 1784, his father moved his family to a veterans land grant in then [[Fayette County, Kentucky]]. In October 1804, James Trimble died leaving Allen head of the family. Allen Trimble moved them to a homestead he and his father had established outside of [[Hillsboro, Ohio]].<ref name="histsoc" />
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