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.