The morning journal-courier., 1908-12-15

cost These families may p' ''''' VI VI however on the blank pages sultaplE headed at the end of the DOOR, where record of future births, marriages ana deaths may be entered, The NeW t'a- ven Trowhridges are only one nro"el
 of this large family which IS now
 eound in every state in the Union and [ the names Of over six thousand lFoW-
 bridges appear in tho index
 over ono hundred Trowbrdges took
 mart In the war of the Revolution as
 officers and prlyates while In the Ciyil
 war a regiment could have been form
 ad from those enlisted on the Union
 side alone,
 rho biography of Henry Trowhridge, founder of the famous TroWnrldGe
 firm of shippers and exporters, Thorn
 AS R. Trowhridge and his brothers, l Henry, Ezekiel, Winston ], and or their
 sons, Henry, Thomas R., P. Hayes ] and w. R. H. Trowhrdge and Sol Rutherford Trowbridgc and other
 members of the family, are all com
 pletc and of much general pubic in- 1 terest owing to tho great local prom
 inencc of the family and its important
 inai,pnce for generations, in New Ha-
 ven. ,as are also the sketches or the
 military services and experiences m
 battles and stcges and war in general
 or thc soldier members of the family
 The sketches of members of tho lam fly include biographies of el'rgymen lawyers. physicians. public officials or
 towns cities. states and the national
 government and merchants of note and among the authors ot national
 prominence of thc family is the ven- crable ]. IT, Trowbridge Another . author vino has won distinction E
 W. R. II. Trowbridge, jr whose latest f work seven Splendid sinners has n added to his reputation
 c The compilation of this genealogical
 work was begun more than ten Near' ago and tho compiler to obtain th, n host results dlsra gardcd an previous
 printed records of the family WhieJ | were necessarily incomplete, espe - cially when judged by present ad o vsnccd genealogical stWu1ards, an' e proceeded in his task as if n1 histor 10 of tha family had previously been pah ic lishnd, making his entire volume on .c of wholy criginal research,
 ,c Tho arrangement of thc au1eessy Y. families ls clearly simplihcd and n k hook in its completeness and arrange l. mcnt or the family registers, hogla 70 phcal notices foot notes. indoNos an ,- wralth of Illustrations Is one mos a- crcdituMc to the anergE research an Nh talent or th author and Is n ! 1c respects one 1T thn standard work j. Of It's kind in America.
 E Thc plates for thc Illustrations wet Is made by the stoddard- Brown Go an rs tho printing and binding were by n ,d Tuttle Warehouse X Taylor co. Th r. photographs of the New Haven men s- bors of the family and tho New Have r. views with a few exceptions were t5 ,o ken ny thc Phelps studio.
 ifs Among Inc Illustrations other tha ds the bioglaphcal are Memorial vii se dows to Thomas k. Trowbridgc an es Ezekiel II. Trowbrijgc, in Cent' of church. old TroWhrdgc seal map s- of section of Devon and Somcrsc or shire. cuntainins the districts aroni iot Exeter ana Taunton England un 0 it. view of Taunton, S' May's Magdal' do church Taunton, and view of its | of tcrior, a view of the interior of m Narys Arches church. Exeter
 Pctrocks church. Exeter Cent rye church. New Haven, udinn deed he Thomas Trowbridgr and ono 10 aar not as agent for New Haven 1rowbrid arr monuments in Center church efF to including grave stones of Capt pa w. icl Trowbridge and wife Joseph Tro Ild bridge house Water street, New II
 in ven. Rutherford Trowbridgc hon al- West Water street. New Haven. re CTS dencc of Thomas R Trowhridgo, l. 'ral street New Haven and view looki ogy to same across New Havcns ars green.