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HARRY TROWBRIDGE, doctor of dental surgery, has in connection with his practice at St. Albans and Charleston during the past fifteen years exemplified also the natural genius of the Trowbridge family for business, and has been one of the successful real estate operators, and is also interested in the oil and gas development in West Virginia. Doctor Trowbridge was born at St. Albans, West Virginia, September 20, 1888. he is one of the numerous American descendants of Thomas Trowbridge, who came from Exeter, Devonshire, England, and settled at Dorchester, Massachusetts, as early as 1637, and later joined the colony at New Haven, Connecticut. The Trowbridge family ever since has been prominent in America. In 1854 Deacon Otis Trowbridge published a pamphlet of family records. In 1872 Thomas R. Trowbridge brought out his book on the Trowbridge family, and in 1908 a large and voluminous was published by Francis Bacon Trowbridge, a Boston attorney. One of the most famous of the family was John Townsend Trowbridge, author and poet of Arlington, Massachusetts, who died in 1916, and whose wholesome and thrilling stories published in the Youth's Companion a generation or so ago are still recalled with pleasure and affection by hosts of readers. He achieved front rank as an American writer. Other descendants of the original Thomas Trowbridge were Otis Trowbridge, Dr. D. Hector Trowbridge of Chicago, Dr. Edward Trowbridge of Worcester, Massachusetts; Rev. John C. Trowbridge of Rochester, Massachusetts; Prof. William P. Trowbridge of New Haven; Rowland E. Trowbridge of Birmingham, Michigan; J. B. Trowbridge, an orchestra conductor at Los Angeles, and others. The grandfather of Doctor Trowbridge was Ferguson H. Trowbridge, who was born in Washington County, Ohio, September 9, 1821. He saw service in one of the early Indian wars, and afterwards located at Crown City, Ohio, and was a boatman on the Kanawha, Ohio and Mississippi rivers, at the same time conducting a farm. On August 22, 1862 he enlisted in Company G of the One Hundred and Seventeenth Ohio Infantry, which subsequently became Company G of the First Ohio Heavy Artillery. He enlisted for three years, but contracted fever while in the army and was ordered home, being unable to complete the journey, and died at the home of an uncle, Austin T. Blake, five miles east of Crown City, Ohio. He married Ruth Crawford. Their son, Zebulon Henry Trowbridge, was born at Crown City, Ohio, January 10, 1856. He learned the trade of millwright in his native town, and about 1875 moved to West Virginia and settled at St. Albans, where he owned and conducted a large farm, and was also a member of the firm Trowbridge & Halstead. He served as deputy sheriff of Kanawha County for over twenty-four years, and one term as deputy state tax commissioner, and was one of the organizers of the First National Bank of St. Albans, serving on its board of directors until his death in September, 1925. He is buried at St. Albans. For years he was an advocate of and exerted every influence within his command to forward the good roads movement in his section of the state, and served as an engineer or road surveyor in laying out many of the public roads around Charleston. He was an active worker in the Republican party. He had filled the office of justice of the peace and was president of the school board of his distric t and was a special representative of Governor Hatfield in one of the labor struggles of that time. He married, May 10, 1877, Lillian Shaw, daughter of Capt. James Claudius and Letitia (Haines) Shaw. Thirteen children were born to their marriage, and eight are still living; Calvin; Kittie May, who married Albert Thomas Halstead, of St. Albans; Malcolm; James Claudius; Nellie, deceased; an infant son, deceased; Zebulon Harry; Frederick; Roscoe, deceased; Glenn Earl, deceased; Beryl Edna and Beulah Adna, twins, the latter deceased; and Audra Ruth. Dr. Z. Harry Trowbridge grew up at St. Albans, attended public schools there, in 1909 graduated from a college at Mt. Vernon, Ohio, and completed his education in the Ohio College of Dental Surgery at Cincinnati, Ohio, where he graduated in 1912, and was awarded first prize in the class of 1910-11. He had been licensed to practice in West Virginia in 1911 and at Columbus, Ohio, in 1912. He at once took up practice in Charleston and St. Albans, and has been one of the outstanding successful members of his profession in the capital city. In real estate doctor Trowbridge has handled largely his own properties, and with a high degree of success. He has put on the market the Trowbridge Addition in Jefferson district, near St. Albans. During recent years he has also used his capital to drill a number of oil and gas wells in the West Virgina territory. Doctor Trowbridge is a deputy sheriff and deputy county treasurer of Kanawha County. He belongs to the Knights of Pythias, is a member of the State and National Dental Societies, is a Republican and a member of the Baptist Church. His favorite diversions are travel and hunting. He married at St. Albans, in 1911, Miss Elizabeth M. Bailey, who was reared and educated there, attending the grammar and high schools and finishing her musical education under private instructors. She is quite active in the Baptist Church and is a teacher in the Sunday school and member of the church choir. Mrs. Trowbridge is a daughter of John W. and Ida E (Howard) Bailey, of St. Albans, where her father for many years has been in the lumber business. The Bailey and Howard families were among the early settlers of Kanawha Valley. Doctor and Mrs. Trowbridge have two children, Virginia Etta and Nellie Baker, both having completed the graded schools at St. Albans, and are now studying music at the Conservatory of Music, Cincinnati, Ohio. WEST VIRGINIA In History, Life, Literature and Industry The Lewis Publishing Company 1928, Volume 4, page 41 CLARENCE LAMONT TOPPING, who for many years has been a prominent figure in Charleston and Kanawha County, is state fire marshal of WEst Virginia, a position he has held since 1921. He was born at Cheshire, Ohio, July 15, 1867, son of John W. and Anna (Hampton) Topping, both natives of Athens County, Ohio, and a grandson of Daniel Topping, a native of New York, and James Hampton, who was born and reared in Ohio and spent his life as a farmer. Daniel Topping moved to Ohio when a young man and was a Baptist minister. John W. Topping was a stone worker and contractor, and in the course of his duties in construction work for the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad, moved to West Virginia, locating at Coals Mouth. he had a service record of four years, seventeen days, in the Union army, with Company H of the Thirty-sixth Ohio Infantry, and at one time was assigned duty with a detail of men to capture the rebel leader, Mosby. He was always active in the Republican party, and a member of the Methodist Church and Independent Order of Odd Fellows. Clarence L. Topping, only child of his parents grew up in West Virginia, attending public schools and the college at St. Albans, West Virginia. He took up mechanical work, and became a stone cutter and stone mason, following those trades for a number of years. He early became interested in politics and served as city clerk of Charleston two years, spent four years as clerk at the Hospital for the Insane at Weston, for one year was chief clerk in the state treasurer's office, and was clerk of the House of Delegates in the State Legislature in 1907, 1909 and again in 1919. During the interval he was clerk of the compensation commission for three years. Since becoming state fire marshal in 1921 Mr. Topping has thoroughly reorganized this important service to the state at large, doing much to educate the people in the state at large, doing much to educate the people in the state in fire prevention and carrying it on through such organizations as the Boy Scouts. He compiled and distributed through the schools a large number of pamphlets giving instructions for fire prevention.He is secretary and former president of the Fire Marshals Association of North America, is a member of the national Fire Protection Association, the National Fire Waste Council of the United Sates Chamber of Commerce. he issues monthly reports on fire losses and maintains a complete statistical record of fires in every county. Mr. Topping married, in 1887, Miss Mary E. Wyatt, a native of Kanawha County, where she was reared and educated. Her father, B. F. Wyatt, was connected with the sheriff's office for twenty-eight years. Mr. and Mrs. Topping had four daughters: Tracy, widow of J. M. McVey, and living at Charleston; Audrey Clothilde, widow of H. T. Lyttleton, and living at Millboro, Virginia; Kathleen, wife of Harold Stone, sales manager of the Charleston Drug & Manufacturing Company; and Wilma, who died in 1919, wife of Fred A. Jesser, leaving two children, Mary Elizabeth and Fred Alexander. Mr. Topping attends the Christian Science Church, is a Scottish Rite Mason and Shriner, and a life member of the B. P. O. Elks. -------------------------------- End of OH-FOOTSTEPS-D Digest V99 Issue #42 ******************************************