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 6io TROWBRIDGE. TRUELL. Medford high school three years, reading law at the same time with the Hon. Daniel A. Gleason and Hon. Benjamin F. Hayes. He was admitted to the bar in Middle- sex county, in February, 1872. He prac- ticed law in Holliston from April 1, 1872, to April 1, 1874; then removed to South Framing-ham and lived, practicing law there until the spring of 1SS6, when he re- moved to Newton, where he now resides. He is in active practice of the law, with offices in South Framingham and in Boston. Mr. Travis was married in Holliston, April 5, 187 1, to Harriet March, the daugh- ter of Austin G. and Mary Charlotte (March) Fitch. Of this union are two children living : Harold Fitch and Howard Currier Travis. In politics Mr. Travis is a Republican. He was trial justice two years at Holliston ; clerk and treasurer of the South Framing- ham Baptist church ; clerk and treasurer of the Baptist church, Newton ; director of the Smith Framingham National Bank, and a trustee of the Framingham Savings Bank. TROWBRIDGE, JOHN TOWNSEND, son of Windsor S. and Rebecca (Willey) Trowbridge, was born in Ogden, Monroe county, N. Y., September 18, 1S27. I. ike Whittier and Charles Dudley War- ner, Trowbridge was a farmer's boy, his childhood days being passed in a log cabin at his birthplace, eight milts west of Roch- ester. A voracious appetite for books P issessed him from his earliest years. He with great difficulty, and without a master, obtained a sufficient knowledge of French and Latin to read works written in those languages. At fourteen we find him a ver- itable poet, contributing to the " Rochester Republican" some verses on the "Tomb of Napoleon." His farm labors became distasteful to him, and after his father's death he availed himself of the opportu- nity of attending a classical school in Lock- port, N. V., for a short time, when he set about improving himself in the languages. Here, too, he received the first money that he ever earned with his pen. The "Niag- ara Courier" offered a copy of Criswold's " Poets of America " for the best written " New Year's Address of the ' Courier ' to its Patrons," and Mr. Trowbridge took the prize. He spent one year in farming and teaching in Illinois, and when only nine- teen years of age wended his way to New York, and became a journalist and writer for the magazines in that city. After years of penury and drudgery he rose to eminence. In 1848 he removed to Boston. In 1850 he took Ben: Perley Poore's place on the "Sentinel," during Mr. Poore's absence in Washington, ]). C. He has since been en- gaged in magazine and newspaper work, and has acquired a national reputation in the editorial and general literary field of labor. He has been managing editor of the " Young Folks," and a contributor to the " Atlantic Monthly ;" among the contribu- tions appearing the poems, " The Vaga- bonds," " At Sea," and the " Pewee," also a short story, "Coupon Bonds." Among his books, his " Neighbor Jack- wood " will be especially remembered as one of the early New England novels, and his " Vagabonds " was a pioneer in the Bret Harte style of poetry. His pen has been fertile in the production of books of travel, adventure, and fiction. Among them we mention " Father Brighthopes, or an ( lid Clergyman's Vacation," " Burr- cliff," "Hearts and Faces," "Home Life Unveiled," " Martin Merrivale, his X Mark," " Ironthorpe," "The Old Battle- ground," " The Drummer Boy," " Cudjo's Cave," " The Three Scouts," " Lucy Arlyn," "The South, a Tour of its Battlefields and Ruined Cities," " Neighbors' Wives," " The Story of Columbus," "The Jack Hazard Series " (five volumes), " The Emigrant's Story and Other Poems," " The Silver Medal Series " (six volumes), " The Book of Gold and Other Poems," "A Home Idvl and Other Poems," and "The Tide Mill Series" (six volumes). His work has been divided between prose and poetry, and he is acknowledged as one of the most popu- lar authors for boys in America. He married, May 9, i860, Cornelia War- ren, of Lowell, who died March 23, 1864, and by whom he had two children : Alice, born in i86i,and who died in infancy, and Windsor Warren Trowbridge, born Febru- ary 11, 1S64. TRUELL, BYRON, son of George W. ami Fanny (Whitcomb) Truell, was born in St. Johnsburv, Caledonia county, Ver- mont, November 23, 1834. He received his early education in the common schools of his native town and at Stanstead Academy, P. Q. At the age of nineteen he entered the employ of A. W. Stearns (dry- goods), Lawrence, as clerk, where he remained until 1S58, when he entered into partnership with Ceorge H. Bailey, under the firm name of Bailey & Truell, which was changed in 1S63 to By- ron Truell & Company, the present style of the firm. In 1S59, at Lawrence, Mr. Truell married Mary E., daughter of William and Mary (Hannaford) Armstrong. Their children