Jacob Trowbridge Born: Dec. 25, 1790, Fair Haven, Rutland Co., Vermont. Died: Apr. 19, 1867, Swan Creek, Gallia, Ohio Buried: Mt. Zion Cemetery, Ohio Twp., Gallia Co., Ohio Parents: Levi Trowbridge & Hannah Smith Occupation: carpenter Military Service: ensign, lieutenant, captain, United States Army, War of 1812 First Marriage: 1812, Ohio First Wife: Sarah Shepard Born: unknown Died: before 1824, unknown Second Marriage: Feb. 29, 1824, Washington Co., Ohio Second Wife: Mary Polly Boomer Born: May 7, 1804, Fall River, Bristol Co., Massachusetts Died: Oct. 16, 1865, Swan Creek, Gallia
Co., Ohio
Children:
(Jacob Trowbridge & Sarah Shepherd)
Levi Trowbridge Born: Apr. 18, 1814, Marietta, Ohio Died: unknown
Eleanor (Ellen) Trowbridge Born: Nov. 1, 1818, Marietta, Ohio Died: July 4, 1904, St. Louis, Missouri First Marriage: unknown First Husband: William Edgar Sublette Born: unknown Died: unknown Second Husband: Titan Leeds Kimble Born: unknown Died: unknown
Third Marriage: unknown Third Husband: Richard McGee Born: unknown Died: unknown
Mary Hope Trowbridge Born: May 9, 1829, Marietta, Ohio Died: unknown
Ann Trowbridge Born: Jan.9, 1832, Marietta, Ohio Died: unknown
Isaac Trowbridge Born: Apr. 3, 1834, Marietta, Ohio Died: unknown
Amy Trowbridge Born: Mar. 23, 1836, Marietta, Ohio Died: unknown
John Trowbridge Born: July 13, 1838, Swan Creek, Gallia Co., Ohio Died: unknown
Charles Trowbridge Born: Apr. 29, 1841, Swan Creek, Gallia
Co., Ohio Died: unknown
Francis Marion Trowbridge Born: Feb. 2, 1844, Swan Creek, Gallia Co., Ohio Died: unknown
Elizabeth Clarinda Trowbridge Born: May 15, 1849, Swan Creek, Gallia Co., Ohio Died: unknown
JACOB TROWBRIDGE
Jacob Trowbridge was a carpenter by trade. He was the first of his family to emigrate to Ohio, going there in 1806 with a man named Carver and building a flour mill in Marietta. He then went to Cincinnati where he is said to have helped build the first mill and to have helped erect and start the first steam engine west of the Ohio. He enlisted in the Army in the War of 1812 and was the first to receive a commission signed by Gov. Meigs of Ohio. He was an Ensign, Lieutenant and for a short time a Captain. He was taken prisoner at General Hull's surrender of Detroit and was so angered by it that he drove his sword into the ground and broke it off at the hilt. He participated in the battles of Chippawa, Lundy's Lane and New Orleans. After his marriage, he settled on a farm in Washington Co. until 1836 when he removed to a farm in Swan Creek, Gallia county where he lived the remainder of his life.
