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Tripp, Howard C – Trowbridge, Rowland E
Tripp, Howard C
journalist, thor, poet, was born April 4, 1861, in Plano, Ill. He has filled the editorial chair on several prominent publications, and is now the editor and owner of The Times of Kingsley, Iowa. He is the author of Legends of Lemars; Ballad Blossoms; Around the Fireside and Other Poems; and other works.
Tripp, Robert P
congressman, was born in Georgia. He was elected a representative in congress from Georgia to the thirty-fourth and thirty-fifth congresses.
Troost, Gerard
mineralogist, was born March 15, 1776, in Holland. He was one of the founders of the Academy of Natural History of Philadelphia, Pa.; and its first president in 1812-17. From 1827 until his death he was professor of chemistry, mineralogy and geology in the university of Nashville. He died Aug. 14, 1850, in Nashville, Tenn.
Trott, Nicholas
lawyer, jurist, author, was born in 1663 in England. He was a Charleston jurist, very eminent in the Carolinas in his day; and the author of Laws of South Carolina (1734); Clavis Linguæ Sanctæ; and Laws Relating to the Church and Clergy in America. He died in 1740 in Charleston, S. C.
Trotter, George
soldier, was born in 1779, in Virginia. He became lieutenant-colonel of Kentucky volunteers in 1813, and led a brigade from his state with rank of brigadier-general, at the battle of the Thames in 1813. He died Oct. 13, 1815, in Lexington, Ky.
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.
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.
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.
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.