Excerpts from a biography as given in the "Northwestern Christian Advocate" of July 21, 1909:
     "Dr. Samuel Whitney Trousdale was conservative and progressive.  While holding to the old doctrines, and always loyal to his Church, he took a broad and statesman-like view of the Kingdom of God; he was quick to see and seize strategic opportunities, and did not always think it necessary to follow the beaten path if a better way presented itself...Men trusted him because he was honest; they followed him because he was a leader; they loved him because he was a humble follower of Jesus; and those who knew him best loved him most."
   
    On September 03, 1909 Bishop James W. Bashford, half brother of Samuel Whitney Trousdale, wrote a letter from China to his widow, and among other things said, "Take him all in all I think he was the most open-minded and candid and unselfish man I have ever known."

More About SAMUEL WHITNEY TROUSDALE:
Burial: Madison, WI

Notes for MINNIE EVANGELINE TAYLOR:
SOURCE:  "The Trousdale Genealogy" by Karl Truesdell, 1952; Enlarged by Theodore McKee Trousdale, Jr., 1960.
   (Following related by a daughter-in-law):
    Mother Trousdale was a great story teller and a great teacher.  In her early life she had been a teacher of deaf children.  To teach a deaf child is no ordinary task; in addition to teaching him to read lips it is necessary to teach him to talk, for no deaf child can talk without special instruction.
    As I said, Mother was a great story teller, and one story she told me went like this: 
    "I had charge of a school for deaf-mutes in LaCrosse, Wisconsin in 1896.  One day I answered a rap on my door and there stood a man who introduced himself as Alexander Graham Bell.  I was nearly speechless, but not quite, and invited him in.  He said he wanted to observe my method of teaching deaf children to talk.  After school let out he hired a carriage and we went for a ride.  I was 28 then and he was 49.  He told me that his wife was deaf, and while trying to build an electrical device so she could hear he accidentally invented the telephone"  This discovery was one of the great serendipities of all time.
    Mother, like most of us, had heard old wives' tales about birthmarks and feared that because she taught deaf children her children might be deaf.  When her first son was a few days old she decided to perform an experiment.  The child was sleeping in his crib across her room.  Finishing her dinner, she dropped her tray on the floor with a crash.  The nurse came running in to find broken dishes on the floor, the baby crying, and Mother lying back on her pillow with a satisfied smile on her face.  Her baby could hear!
    Mother was left a widow with three small boys in 1909.  This was a challenge to her, and she resolved to do her utmost to bring them up well.  She had a will of iron, but it was so covered over with gentleness that you did not realize it until you had known her for some time.  She defended her boys when they were young, helped them to become independent at an early age, and taught them to live honestly.  When they were grown she stood apart, loving them, but never tried to manage their lives.
    Here is another story she told me that illustrates her method of teaching her children:
    "One day when the boys were small I had to go to a meeting at the Church.  I told them that I would be back at five o'clock and would then tell them a story.  The meeting was over at 4:30 and the women started to make tea and get out some cakes.  I told them I couldn't remain for tea as I had an appointment with my children at five o'clock.  One woman said, 'Oh, do stay for tea.  An appointment like that isn't important.'  I said to her, 'Well, I never break a promise to my children.'  When I got home at five minutes of five, the boys were watching out the window for me.  They did not act surprised that I was home on time."
    The family of four was drawn closely together, and when a problem arose Mother called a family council, and the meeting did not adjourn until a solution, satisfactory to all, was reached.
    When I became engaged to my husband, she held out her arms and welcomed me into the family.  She never left me in the dark about any serious business that affected any member.
    Mother was a great manager.  She was never physically strong, but her mind was always at work, figuring out how she could best benefit her family.  She had a driving ambition, directed toward the welfare of her boys.
    She was a widow for 39 years.  I knew her for 33 years.  She has been gone now for nine years and the more I think about her the more I realize what a great woman she was.  My respect for her continues to grow.

Children of SAMUEL TROUSDALE and ALMA BAKER are:
197. i. ELIZABETH DALE⁶ TROUSDALE, b. January 17, 1886, Hudson, WI.
198. ii. PAUL WHITNEY TROUSDALE, b. July 08, 1888, Eau Claire, WI; d. February 18, 1920, Colorado Springs, CO.

Children of SAMUEL TROUSDALE and MINNIE TAYLOR are:
199. iii. THEODORE MCKEE⁶ TROUSDALE, b. November 14, 1898, Platteville, WI; d. April 16, 1957, Sarasota, FL.
200. iv. JAMES BASHFORD TROUSDALE, b. February 26, 1900, Platteville, WI.
201. v. WHITNEY MAYNARD TROUSDALE, b. April 09, 1903, Platteville, WI.