Sutter-Yuba County Biographies

L. D. TROWBRIDGE

Transcribed by: Kathy Sedler

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At the age of sixteen L. D. Trowbridge left the parental home and came to 
California, and during his forty-seven years of residence in the Golden State he 
has been an eye witness to the remarkable growth and development of one of the 
richest States in the Union.  His birth occurred in Michigan, on March 3, 1860, 
a son of Daniel and Susan (Parson) Trowbridge, natives of Ohio and Pennsylvania, 
respectively.  L. D. Trowbridge is the youngest of a family of seven children 
and he was educated in the district school in Michigan near his father�s farm.  
Arriving in California in 1876, L. D. Trowbridge worked for wages in Sacramento 
for three years; then he broke horses at Live Oak, Sutter County, for ten years.
On August 19, 1891, Mr. Trowbridge was united in marriage with Miss Orva Coats, 
a daughter of William A. and Isabelle (Boone) Coats, both natives of Missouri.  
William A. Coats crossed the plains to California in 1852 and settled near the 
Mountain House in Colusa County, where he was engaged in the sheep business; 
about 1860 he removed to Sutter County, where he raised stock on his 320-acre 
ranch.  William A. Coats lived to be seventy-six years old, while Mrs. Coats 
passed away at the age of thirty-two.  They were the parents of four children: 
Catherine is now Mrs. B. B. Adams; Mattie is Mrs. Gilpatrick; William K.; and 
Orva, the wife of our subject.  After his marriage Mr. and Mrs. Trowbridge lived 
in the Honcut district of Butte County for seven years, where Mr. Trowbridge was 
engaged in training horses; then he purchased twelve and a half acres, devoted 
to peaches and grapes, in the Stewart tract of Sutter County, built a good house 
and the family resided there until nine years ago, when the place was sold and 
they removed to their present eighty-acre ranch near O�Banion Corners, this 
being the portion of the Coats estate falling to Mrs. Trowbridge.  Mr. and Mrs. 
Trowbridge are the parents of two sons.  Ross C. married Miss Inez Littlejohn 
and they have one son, James; and Ralph married Miss May Williamson and they 
also have one son, George.  Mr. Trowbridge sold off thirty acres of his ranch 
and gave his son Ralph ten acres, leaving forty acres in the home place, thirty 
acres of which is set to fruit, which is irrigated by a three-inch electric 
pump.  Fraternally, Mr. Trowbridge is a member of Yuba City Camp, W.O.W., and 
Mrs. Trowbridge is a member of the Women of Woodcraft, and is also a member of 
the Bogue Wednesday Club.
 
History of Yuba and Sutter Counties, Historic Record Company, Los Angeles, 1924
p 1200