HENRY W. TROWBRIDGE - Biography

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This biography appears on pages 674 in History of Racine and Kenosha Counties, Wisconsin...
published by the Western Historical Co.: 1879.


HENRY W. TROWBRIDGE, farmer, Sec. 29; P.O. Dover; born in Oswego, N. Y.,
Nov. 12 1819 - came to Dover in November, 1836, with his parents and one
brother, Stewart; he owns 200 acres land in Sections 28, 29, 32; be
built the house he now lives in, with barns, etc., and has a very
comfortable home, and is at present engaged in building a large,
substantial barn. He married in Dover November, 1869, Mrs. Henrietta
Peltzer, widow of Eugene Peltzer, and a resident of Dover; they had one
child, Charlotte, born in 1861, who died in Dover in 1870. Mr.
Trowbridge was Supervisor of this town in 1854, and held the office
several years. They are members of the United Presbyterian Church. His
father, Capt. John Todd Trowbridge, was born in New Haven, Conn., in
1780, and came to Dover in November, 1836; he died in Racine, Wis., May
3, 1858, aged 78 years; was a captain in the navy in the war of 1812,
and is widely known in the history of that war for his noble
performances and daring.