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Author: Past and Present of Will County, IL; 1907

William C. Trowbridge, serving as village clerk and postmaster of Crete, is 
also a representative of its newspaper interests, being editor and proprietor 
of the Crete Citizen. He was born in Altoona, Pennsylvania, April 14, 1856, 
and was the third in order of birth in a family of nine children whose parents 
were William S. and Henrietta (Kuhn) Trowbridge. The father, a native of the 
state of New York, was of English descent. He worked in the steel mills at 
Freedom, Pennsylvania, being in charge of the cupola, and in 1869 he removed 
to Grand Rapids, Michigan, after which he was connected with an agricultural 
implement manufactory. He had previously served as a soldier of the Civil war, 
enlisting in a Pennsylvania regiment in 1863. He participated in important 
engagements and remained at the front until honorably discharged at the close 
of hostilities. His political views accorded with the principles of the 
republican party and he was a faithful member of the Episcopal church. He died 
in 1889 at the age of sixty-two years, while his wife passed away in 1875 at 
the age of forty-eight years. She was born in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, was of 
German lineage and was also a communicant of the Episcopal church. William C. 
Trowbridge was educated in the schools of Lewiston, Pennsylvania, after which 
he learned and followed the printers trade in that state until 1871. He then 
made his way westward to Grand Rapids, Michigan, where he worked at his trade 
until 1881, when he removed to Beecher, Illinois, and for seven years 
thereafter was foreman of a large stock journal. In 1888 he came to Crete, 
where he took charge of the Crete Journal, and in connection with M. J. 
Tillotson became its proprietor. In 1891 he bought the interest of his partner 
and conducted the paper alone until 1894, when he moved the plant to Chicago 
Heights and established a paper called the Chicago Heights Signal, which he 
published until 1898. He then sold out there and in the fall of the same year 
returned to Crete, purchasing a half interest in the Crete Citizen. In 1899 he 
became sole owner and has since been editor and proprietor of this paper, 
which is a five column quarto, republican in politics. It has a good 
circulation and a fair advertising patronage. In 1875 Mr. Trowbridge was 
married to Miss Lelia M. Wilkins, who was born in Grand Rapids, Michigan, 
August 31, 1856, a daughter of Hiram Wilkins, who was a bridge builder. Mr. 
and Mrs. Trowbridge have four children: Winona, the wife of Charles A. Wilder, 
a piano finisher, living in Crete; William Roy, who has charge of the Crete 
Citizen; Myron E., a student in Morgan Park Academy; and Charles, in school. 
The parents are members of the Congregational church and Mr. Trowbridge is a 
Mason and Woodman. He gives his political support to the republican party and 
for several years has occupied the position of village clerk, while in 1903 he 
was appointed postmaster and is still acting in that position. His public 
service has been characterized by an unfaltering devotion to the duties of the 
office and in the publication of his paper he has been a stalwart champion of 
progressive movements for the benefit of the village. 

Additional Comments:
PAST AND PRESENT OF WILL COUNTY, ILLINOIS By W. W. Stevens President of the 
Will County Pioneers Association; Chicago: The S. J. Clarke Publishing 
Company, 1907

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