His maternal grandfather, Colonel John Reese, was the founder of Nevada at Genoa, and also a Mormon.
[1] After the statehood question was resolved, in 1895 Trumbo and his wife moved to Salt Lake City and took up residence in the Gardo House, a large mansion originally built by Brigham Young for one of his wives, and later the official residence of the president of the church.
[2] He became active in the Utah Republican Party and became identified as an advocate for the Free Silver doctrine.
[1] Trumbo believed that he would be offered one of Utah's two seats in the United States Senate as a reward for his statehood efforts.
However, this did not occur, in part because Utah's non-Mormons were concerned that Trumbo was too closely aligned with Mormon interests.