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James McGrew Trowbridge, my great-great grandfather, son of Samuel Grady Trowbridge (1801-1872) and Jane McGrew (1805-1883).  Jane was the daughter of Colonel James McGrew (1779-1873) of Brandonville, Preston County, (West) Virginia and Isabella Clark (1779-1867).  Col. McGrew was the son of Patrick McGrew, who may have been born in Scotland or Ireland, but came to what is now West Virginia from Cumberland Co., Pa. in 1796.  James McGrew Trowbridge was named for his grandfather, Col. McGrew.
My great great grandfather's uncle (brother of Jane) was James Clark McGrew of Kingwood, Preston Co., W.Va. Mr. McGrew served one term in the U.S. Congress, was mayor of Kingwood, one of the representatives in Richmond from the western counties of Virginia that voted against sucession in 1861.  As a result he and his fellow delegates from the western counties were targets of death threats and had to return home by secret routes to avoid assination teams of radical southerners.  He was also one of the delegates that help form the State of West Virginia when the Civil War began.


This portrait is from the West Virginia State Archives.  It portrays James Clark McGrew as he looked in the 1860's, at the time that West Virginia became a state.


This image appears to be a newspaper print of a photo or portrait of James C. McGrew at about the time he was a Republican U.S. Congressman.

My daughter Tonya and granddaughter Jolie by the headstone for their ancestor James Mcgrew Trowbridge in the Maplewood Cemetery (also known simply as the Kingwood Cemeter) in Kingwood, Preston County, West Virginia.  Jolie has taken a keen interest in genealogy and hopefully, she will take over where her granddad left off.
Granddaughter Jolie and Grandpa by the Trowbridge plot monument.  James McGrew Trowbridge's headstone is behind me to my left in this picture.  Also buried in this plot in Kingwood is great great grandmother Sarah Ann (Snider) Trowbridge and their grandson Madison E. Trowbridge who was killed in France during WWI.

This is the monument on the James Clark McGrew family plot in Maplewood Cemetery in Kingwood.  James McGrew Trowbridge named one of his daughters Persis in honor of his aunt.  The names and dates for other family members are engraved on the other sides of this monument.


This is "The Pines" on East Main Street in Kingwood.  Also known as the McGrew House, it was built by James Clark McGrew in about 1841. It is on the National Register of Historic Places.

Daughter Tonya and granddaughter Jolie at the McGrew House in April 2009.  The house is only a few hundred feet from the center of town, the bank on the corner of Price and Main where Mr. McGrew started his career as a teller, and the courthouse where he served as the first mayor of Kingwood.
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
Ronald N. Wall
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