New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-05-30
1T. TROWBRLDGES YOUTH,
r,.on, The Boston herald.

ro,,, TownsenI Trowbridge, although in all his
cboracteristics typical NewEnglander, is native
Of state %G SS Sef nSS his legal manhood
was reached His father, however WINDSOR SOUS n',
rowbrdg was NswEng shs si,ts aVi1E U %ss
bpomgbt M from b0yhOOd by farmer in New-Y YORK
State and settled in the town OF Ogden elght mlies
about Rochester where ne cut GOwn oe soy far
Tn This log house the eighth child, tue suplect OF
this sketch was born on September To- ho| Il s4
months before new frame house was Dull. tnae
mart of New-York having been settled by New Eng
nders the native stock is pure Yankee az yxlsts
~ the aid Raw State. The leading traits u his
parents manifest in OF M Ts father
had n strong passion for music, and was locally
Celebrated as capital story teller. he often
unused his children with tales in rhyme. Hismother
had sensitive temperament, was deeply devo-
tInnal and energetic in character.
A. n bow Mr.. 1rOwbridge lived the usual country
life going to school, untn ne was anI s9ter That
working on the farm in tho Summer lie was al:
yyays fond Of reading, and he learned more out OF
school than in. He taught himself to read ana
translate French before he was fifteen years old,
and also attempted Latin and German without
teacher. From public library he obtained tho
works of Scott and Byron, which impressed nm SO
poweTfully that, while at swork in the held, he
blamed novels and composed rhymes. ms active
authorship began at sixteen, when no wrote verses
and prose articles for rural Journals AT the age OF
seventeen he spent term at classical scnool IN
Tockport then visited his sister in Illinois IaugnS
ach
then returning to LOekp0rt, Taught schOol iof q
to,n At the age of nineteen he SGT out 70 seek ns
Fortnpe' IA writer in New-York City. Malor Moan
iUtrodGced him to publishers with whom ne found
nsret for some Of his literary wares one maya;
nins paving him .at the rate of dollar printed
a N article which he sent to Inc hhtcEei COCKER
as accented and soon printed, but his only pay
,,aS a note of thanks; that and the fame" Deing
tbo nnsubgtantial recOmpense tot young contrlDu-
to o So the yonng author had hard lines. lie was
ften reduced TO last loaf, which be would carry
70 his attic lodging ION Broadway listening. while
he ate Il, to the music OF band IN tho balcony Oh
the cafe across the way. For few months ne en-,
SToved cold peneil-cases for o manufacturer Ia
Jersey CITY, thus earning little money But TINS
work gave out and for time he enjoyed the hos
ntality of a kindly French family, With whom ne
Pprofted by practising the Languages, and reading
many French novels. His writing for the pressss,
mea2while, gave him hardly enough to pay ms
hoard BILLS and in August 1S4S, he came TO Boston
on n visit and decided to make his home here as u
moved better market for his stories and sketchee.
Which, at the time; were written under the name
of Paul UFoyton" n o,...A.,d,,. .at,ad
M Rem Perley PoOre's SeHtHeI, while MT. PoOre
was In WashingtOn, He nearly caused tho death
~ ihe journal BY an article on the fugitive slaye
law. many offended readers withdrawing their SAB
| scrinfions Ia consequence In 1853 hia first b0oi
STas pnbIished-S tathAE p@ighthoDast o. 90 sQf