1st NY Engineering Co. F & 33rd Regiment of Colored Troops Union Army American Civil War
Lt. John Augustin Trowbridge Born: May 28, 1839, Morris Plains, Morris Co., New Jersey Died: Feb. 5, 1927, Chatham, Morris Co., New Jersey Parents: Elijah Freeman & Trowbridge & Temperance Ludlow Muchmore Buried: Fairmont Cemetery, Chatham, Morris Co., New Jersey Occupation: carpenter Military
Service: Company F, First New York Company of Engineers, 1st. Lt., 33rd
Regiment of Colored Troops, Union Army, American Civil War Marriage: Apr. 26, 1866, Madison, Morris Co., New Jersey Wife: Margaret Lum Born: June 5, 1843, Chatham, Morris Co., New Jersey Died: Feb. 3, 1903, Chatham, Morris Co., New Jersey Buried: Fairmont Cemetery, Chatham, Morris Co., New Jersey Parents: Harvey Lum & Mrs. Lum (first name unknown)
Charles Lyndon Trowbridge Born: Feb. 16, 1873, Chatham, Morris Co., New Jersey Died: Dec. 15, 1951, Morris Co., New Jersey Occupation: mason, carpenter
Harriet Elizabeth Trowbridge Born: Aug. 14, 1881, Chatham, Morris Co., New Jersey Died: still living, 1914, Morris Co., New Jersey
John Augustin Trowbridge
JOHN AUGUSTIN TROWBRIDGE
From "History of Morris Co., Vol. 1", Lewis Publishing Co., 1914
He
was born in Morris county, on the 28th of May, 1839, and is a son of
Elijah Trowbridge, who was born in this county and is a son of Austin
Trowbridge. The last named, a native of Morris Co., was a son of Shubal
Trowbridge, of English descent, the original American ancestors
locating in the New World in early colonial days. Elijah Trowbridge was
a farmer, but when a young man removed to Brooklyn and was appointed
one of the first policemen of that city. He married Temperance
Muchmore, who was born in Bottle Hill, now Madison, New Jersey, a
daughter of John Taylor Muchmore. Eight children were born of this
union, five of whom reached years of maturity, while four are still
living, namely: Phoebe, Charles, John, and Johanna, the wife of George
Perkins. Frank, who joined the one hundredth and forty-seventh New York
Volunteer Infantry, and served throughout the war, was wounded at Cold
Harbor and died from the effects of his injuries after the close of
hostilities. Three children of this family died in childhood. The
father [Elijah] died in Brooklyn, in the forty-ninth year of his age,
while his wife lived to be seventy-two years of age. After her
husband's death, she returned to Morris Co., but later moved back to
Brooklyn, where her death occurred. Mr. Trowbridge, whose name begins
this review, was a child of nine when with his parents he removed to
Brooklyn, where he acquired his education in the public schools. At the
age of eighteen he began to learn the carpenter"s trade, serving a
four-year apprenticeship, in which time he thoroughly mastered the
business, becoming an expert workman. But when he had completed his
term his attention was called to other things. The question of the
extension of slavery had involved the country in civil war, and being
true to the union, Mr. Trowbridge enlisted on the 11th of December
1861, being assigned to Company F, First New York Volunteer Engineers,
serving in Hilton Head, Charleston, and Morris island. Later he was
commissioned second lieutenant of the First Regiment South Carolina
Volunteer Infantry, Company A, afterward the thirty-third Regiment of
Colored Troops, this being the first regiment of colored troops
organized during the war. They were engaged in provost, guard and
picket duty, and were often on detailed service. Mr. Trowbridge
continued at the front until December 1864, when he resigned and
returned home. Again reaching the north, he worked his trade in
Brooklyn until 1866, when he came to Chatham, where he has since been
engaged in business. His thorough understanding of the trade, his
reliability and promptness and his skillful workmanship has brought him
a creditable success. On April 26, 1866, Mr. Trowbridge was joined in
wedlock to Miss Margaret Lum, a daughter of Harvey Lum, and together
they have five children: Alfred M., a carpenter in Chatham, Frank L.,
who is engaged in merchandising in Chatham; Charles L., a mason and a
carpenter; Roy S., a machinist, and Harriett E. The parents hold
membership in the Presbyterian Church, and Mr. Trowbridge is a member
of the A.T.A. Tolbert Post, No. 24, G.A.R., and Mr. Trowbridge
exercises his right of franchise in support of the Republican party and
is as true to his duties of citizenship in times of peace as he was
when he followed the starry banner on southern battlefields.
