Trotter, Newbold Hough – Truelsen, Henry
Trotter, Newbold Hough
artist, was born Jan. 4, 1827, in Philadelphia, Pa. He has devoted himself principally to painting pictures of animal life. His more important works of this class include They Knew not the Voice of Strangers; They Only Knew the Voice of Strangers; The Range of the Bison; After the Combat; Grizzly Bears; The Last Stand; El-Mahdi; and In the Soudan.
Troubat, Francis Joseph
lawyer, author, was born in 1802 in Philadelphia, Pa. He was a lawyer of Philadelphia; and the author of Practice in Civil Actions in Pennsylvania Supreme Court (with W. Haley); The Law of Limited Partnership in the United States; and "Treatise on the Law of Partnerships. He died Oct. 8, 1868, in Paris, France.
Troubetzkoy, Mrs. Amelie
[RIVES] [CHANLER], author, was born in 1863 in Virginia. She is a novelist whose second husband is a Russian prince.
She is the author of The Quick or the Dead; A Brother to Dragons; Virginia of Virginia; Barbara Dering; The Witness of the Sun; Athelwold, a tragedy; and Herod and Marianne, a drama.
Troup, George Mcintosh
lawyer, congressman, United States senator, governor, was born Sept. 8, 1780, on the Tombigbee river, Ga. In 1800 he was elected to the legislature of Georgia; and was was three times re-elected. He was a representative in congress from Georgia from 1807 to 1815; and was a United States senator from 1816 to 1818, and from 1829 to 1834. From 1823 to 1827 he was governor of Georgia. He died May 3, 1856, in Laurens county, Ga.
Troup, Robert
soldier, lawyer, jurist, state legislator, author, was born in 1757 in New York city. He was appointed by congress in 1778 secretary of the board of war; in 1779 went to New Jersey, and completed his law studies. After the close of the war he became judge of the United States district court of New York, and held that office many years.
He was a member of the state legislature.
He published a letter on the lake canal policy of New York; Vindication of the Claim of Elkanah Watson; and Remarks on Trinity Church Bill. He died Jan. 14, 1832, in New York city.
Trousdale, William
soldier, governor, was born in 1790 in Sumner county, Tenn. He was made brevet brigadier-general in 1848, for gallant and meritorious conduct at Chapultepec, where he was severely wounded. He was governor of Tennessee from 1841 to 1851; and was minister plenipotentiary to Brazil in 1853. He died in March, 1872, in Nashville, Tenn.
Trout, Michael C
congressman, was born in Pennsylvania. He was a representative in congress from that state from 1853 to 1855.
Trout, Philip
educator, clergyman, was born April 5, 1852, in Clarke county, Ohio. For seven years he taught in the public schools of Ohio, and for two years was superintendent of the Children's home of Springfield, Ohio. He attended the Ohio Wesleyan university of Delaware, and since 1888 has been a clergyman of the methodist episcopal church. He has served important charges in the Cincinnati conference, and has been eminently successful in his work.
Trow, John Fowler
printer, was born Jan. 29, 1810, in Andover, Mass. He was one of the first to introduce electrotyping into the printing business, and adopted many inventions to facilitate typesetting and the manufacture of books.
In 1855 he published a specimen-book of the typographic art, for which the university of New York conferred on him the title of university printer. He died Aug. 8, 1886, in Orange, N. J.
Trowbridge, Catherine Maria
author, was born in 1818 in Connecticut.
She is a writer of South Manchester, Conn., who has made many contributions to juvenile literature, a few among them being, Christian Heroism; Victory at Last; Will and Will Not; Snares and Safeguards; and Changing Paths.
Trowbridge, Edmund
lawyer, was born in 1709 in Newton, Mass. He became attorney general of Massachusetts in 1749; and was elevated to the supreme bench of Massachusetts the next year. He died April 2, 1792, in Cambridge, Mass.
Trowbridge, Mary Elizabeth Day
journalist, was born in Michigan, the daughter of the Rev. G. B. and Elizabeth Day, who settled in Sturgis in 1836. She pursued a course of study in the Kalamazoo college, and studied music in New York city. She taught sciences and music, and in 1860 was married to Rev. L. H. Trowbridge. In 1869 she was called to the chair of music of Kalamazoo college, which position she filled for four years, resigning to devote her entire time to literary work in connection with the Christian Herald, of which publication she became engaged on the editorial staff in 1870. For over a quarter of a century she has been actively engaged in journalism on the Christian Herald, side by side with her husband. Since 1872 she has been actively identified with the interest of the American Association for the Advancement of Science; and has served as examiner of schools of higher education. She has prepared papers for public meetings of the state board of health, and is the author of several brochures issued by the American Baptist Publication society of Philadelphia, notably The Way of Light; Pioneer Days; Vacation Notes; and a series of European letters.
Trowbridge, John
physicist, educator, author, was born Aug. 5, 1843, in Boston, Mass. He is a physicist of note, professor at Harvard university from 1.880, and Rumford professor of the application of science to the useful arts there from 1888. He is the author of What is Electricity?; The New Physics; Three Boys on an Electrical Boat; and The Electrical Boy.
Trow Bridge, John Townsend
author, poet, was born Sept. 18, 1827, in Ogden, N. Y. He is a popular writer of Arlington, Mass., whose work in verse and prose reaches a high grade of excellence. His novel, Neighbor Jackwood, when first issued in 1857, was a strong moral agent in stimulating anti-slavery sentiment. His other fictions include, Lucy Arlyn; Coupon Bonds, and Other Stories; Farnell's Folly; Neighbors' Wives; Martin Merrivale. Among his very many juvenile tales are, Cudjo's Cave; Three Scouts; The Drummer Boy; The Prize Cup; The Lottery Ticket; The Tide-Mill Stories: The Toby Trafford Series; The Little Master; Jack Hazard Series. His published volumes of verse include, The Vagabonds (his best known poem), and Other Poems; The Emigrant's Story, and Other Poems; A Home Idyl, and Other Poems; The Lost Earl; and The Book of Gold, and Other Poems. At Sea and Midsummer are two of his finest poems.
Trowbridge, Rowland E
agriculturist, state senator, congressman, was born June 18, 1821, in Elmira, N. Y. He was elected to the senate of Michigan in 1856 and 1858. In 1860 he was elected a representative from Michigan to the thirty-seventh congress; and was also elected to the thirty-ninth and fortieth congresses as a republican. He died April 3, 1883, in Detroit, Mich.
Trowbridge, William Petit
civil engineer, scientist, author, was born May 25, 1828, in Oakland county, Mich.
He was an engineer and scientist in charge of the engineering department of the School of Mines, Columbia college, in 1877-92. He was the author of Steam Generator; Heat as a Source of Power; Turbine Wheels; and Stationary Steam Engines. He died Aug. 12, 1892, in New Haven, Conn.
Troxell, Millard Francis
clergyman, lecturer, journalist, was born Oct. 25, 1857, in Cumberland, Md. This eminent pastor of the Grace Lutheran church of Springfield, Ill., has been president of two lutheran synods; chaplain of the state senate of the Illinois assembly; and for two years was vice-president of the Illinois Christian Endeavor union.
True, Charles Kittridge
clergyman, educator, author, was born Aug. 14, 1809, in Portland, Maine. He was a methodist clergyman and educator, professor at Wesleyan university in 1849-60; and the author of Elements of Logic; Shawmut, or the Settlement of Boston; John Winthrop and the Great Colony; Lives of Raleigh, John Knox, John Harvard, Captain John Smith; The Thirty Years' War; and Heroes of Holland. He died June 20, 1878, in Brooklyn, N. Y.
True, Henry Clay
lawyer, legislator, jurist, was born Oct. 9, 1867, in Cross Plains, Tenn. He is one of the leading lawyers of his native state at Springfield; during 1891-93 he served with distinction as a member of the Tennessee state legislature; has served as judge of the city court; and is prominent in public affairs.
True, John Preston
author, was born in 1859 in Maine. He is a Boston writer; and the author of Their Club and Ours, a popular juvenile tale; and Shoulder Arms, a tale of life in a military school.
Truell, Edwin M
soldier, was born Aug. 19, 1841, in Lowell, Mass. He served as a union soldier for three years during the civil war. He was a member of company E, twelfth Wisconsin volunteer infantry; was commissioned first lieutenant by brevet, and received congressional medal of honor for gallantry in action at Atlanta, Ga.
Truelsen, Henry
merchant, public official, was born Oct. 20, 1844, in Germany. In 1859 he entered the grocery business, and continued until elected sheriff in 1886. In 1869 he moved to Duluth, Minn., from the copper regions of Michigan; was eight years alderman of the city of Duluth; sheriff of St. Louis county in 1886-87; president of the board of public works during 1891-93; and mayor of the city of Duluth in 1896-98.