2LT Robert Jacob Trinkle
1892 - 1952 (60 years)
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Name Robert Jacob Trinkle Prefix 2LT Birth 15 Oct 1892 Dublin, VA 
Gender Male Death 17 Oct 1952 Lexington, Rockbridge, VA - Virginia, Death Records
Name: Robert Jacob Trinkle
Gender: Male
Race: White
Age at Death: 61
Birth Date: 15 Oct 1892
Death Date: 17 Oct 1953
Death Place: Lexington, Rockbridge, Virginia, USA
Registration Date: 19 Oct 1953
Father: Jacob Stevens Trinkle
Mother: Katharine Louise Lynes
Spouse: Mrs Eleanor Lore Trinkle
Burial Lexington, Rockbridge, VA - Burial: Lexington City, Virginia, USA
Inscription:
ROBERT JACOB TRINKLE / SON OF / KATE LYONS AND / JACOB STEVENS TRINKLE / BORN AT DUBLIN, VA. / OCT. 15, 1892 / OCT. 17, 1953
Note: Transcription made in the field. In Crane Family plot with wife and her parents, marked by stone bench engraved with CRANE.
Person ID I8658 Drollinger Genealogy Last Modified 28 Dec 2022
Father Jacob Stevens Trinkle, b. 11 Aug 1857, Dublin, Pulaski, VA d. 20 Jun 1942, Dublin, Pulaski, VA (Age 84 years) Mother Sarah Katherine (Louise) Lyons, b. 15 Apr 1861 d. 19 Nov 1925, Dublin, Pulaski, VA (Age 64 years) Family ID F2890 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family Eleanor Lore Crane, b. 28 Mar 1903, Sparrows Point, MD d. 19 May 1989, NJ (Age 86 years) Marriage 20 Jun 1923 Children 1. Robert Jacob Trinkle 2. Ann Wheeler Trinkle 3. Nelson Crane Trinkle Family ID F2951 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 14 Mar 2016
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Birth - 15 Oct 1892 - Dublin, VA 
Death - 17 Oct 1952 - Lexington, Rockbridge, VA Burial - - Lexington, Rockbridge, VA = Link to Google Earth
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Notes - U.S., World War I Draft Registration Card
Name: Robert J Trinkle
County: Pulaski
State: Virginia
Birthplace: Virginia, United States of America
Birth Date: 15 Oct 1892
Race: White
Graduated from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in engineering, he was Professor of Electrical Engineering at the Virginia Military Institute (VMI).
Class of 1914, Virginia Military Institute. Volunteered at outbreak of WWI and was commissioned 2nd Lieut, Inf. on 9 Aug 1917 following attendance of the first Officers Training Camp at Fort Myer, Virginia. Promoted to Captain 24 Aug 1918. Honorably discharged 18 April 1919, serving entirely with the training camp at Camp Lee, Virginia.
In 1921, he became Professor of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering at VMI. In 1926, he obtained his M.S. in Electrical Engineering from M.I.T., and was Head of the VMI Mechanical Engineering Department from 1942 until his death.
- U.S., World War I Draft Registration Card