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.