"William H. Trowbridge was born in Onondaga County, N.Y., March 4, 1828. He is a son of Samuel and Bethiah (Winslow) Trowbridge, who were both natives of New York and the parents of eight children, six sons of whom are yet living. W. H. Trowbridge was reared a farmer. At the age of twenty-four, he started overland for California, but instead of going to the expected destination he went to Oregon, where he engaged in lumbering. The spring of 1855 he returned to Indiana, and purchased his present place. He was married, November 22, 1862, to Ann Eliza Wilson, who bore him one son--Herbert H., who has since died. The mother died April 10, 1865, and August 10, 1867, Mr. Trowbridge married his present wife, Berthana Woodruffe. This lady has borne him seven children--George F., Joseph P., Walter, Harry, Emma and two that died in infancy. Mr. Trowbridge is a Republican and owns eighty acres of good land."
-- Counties of Whitley and Noble, Indiana: Historical and Biographical. Chicago: F.A.Battey & Co., 1882, p.412
William's first wife and son are buried at the "Old Railroad" Cemetery in Wayne township.
The TROWBRIDGE GENEALOGY by Francis Bacon Trowbridge (New Haven, 1908) gives William's middle name as "Henry". However, Walter Trowbridge of Kendallville, a descendant of William and the premiere family researcher in the area, confirms this to be an error.
-- Counties of Whitley and Noble, Indiana: Historical and Biographical. Chicago: F.A.Battey & Co., 1882, p.412
William's first wife and son are buried at the "Old Railroad" Cemetery in Wayne township.
The TROWBRIDGE GENEALOGY by Francis Bacon Trowbridge (New Haven, 1908) gives William's middle name as "Henry". However, Walter Trowbridge of Kendallville, a descendant of William and the premiere family researcher in the area, confirms this to be an error.
"William H. Trowbridge was born in Onondaga County, N.Y., March 4, 1828. He is a son of Samuel and Bethiah (Winslow) Trowbridge, who were both natives of New York and the parents of eight children, six sons of whom are yet living. W. H. Trowbridge was reared a farmer. At the age of twenty-four, he started overland for California, but instead of going to the expected destination he went to Oregon, where he engaged in lumbering. The spring of 1855 he returned to Indiana, and purchased his present place. He was married, November 22, 1862, to Ann Eliza Wilson, who bore him one son--Herbert H., who has since died. The mother died April 10, 1865, and August 10, 1867, Mr. Trowbridge married his present wife, Berthana Woodruffe. This lady has borne him seven children--George F., Joseph P., Walter, Harry, Emma and two that died in infancy. Mr. Trowbridge is a Republican and owns eighty acres of good land."
-- Counties of Whitley and Noble, Indiana: Historical and Biographical. Chicago: F.A.Battey & Co., 1882, p.412
William's first wife and son are buried at the "Old Railroad" Cemetery in Wayne township.
The TROWBRIDGE GENEALOGY by Francis Bacon Trowbridge (New Haven, 1908) gives William's middle name as "Henry". However, Walter Trowbridge of Kendallville, a descendant of William and the premiere family researcher in the area, confirms this to be an error.
-- Counties of Whitley and Noble, Indiana: Historical and Biographical. Chicago: F.A.Battey & Co., 1882, p.412
William's first wife and son are buried at the "Old Railroad" Cemetery in Wayne township.
The TROWBRIDGE GENEALOGY by Francis Bacon Trowbridge (New Haven, 1908) gives William's middle name as "Henry". However, Walter Trowbridge of Kendallville, a descendant of William and the premiere family researcher in the area, confirms this to be an error.
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