David Trumbull

David Trumbull (November 1, 1819 – February 1, 1889) was an early Protestant missionary in Chile and the founder of the Presbyterian Church in that country.

He entered early on a business career in New York City, but when the house with which he was connected was blotted out in the commercial panic of 1837, he returned to his father, who had now removed to Colchester, Connecticut, and was prepared at the academy there for the Sophomore class in Yale College.

In 1849 he visited the United States, and was married in New Haven, June 5, 1850, to Jane W. Fitch, a niece of the Rev.

In 1863 he published La Lejislacion Respecto a los Matrimonios Mistos: Juzgada a la Luz de los Intereses Morales, Políticos y Relijiosos del País ("Legislation Regarding Mistos Marriages: Judged in the Light of the Moral, Political and Religious Interests of the Country").

Special exertion at the end of December, 1888, brought on another series of attacks, and his death followed on February 1, in his 70th year.