Baltimore City Nineteenth-Century Photos
Sarah Fell Trower
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Reverse of Sarah Trower's photo showing logo for the W. Kennedy Jenkins Studio |
Captain JESSE EMERSON TROWER - 1832-1893
Moved to Baltimore from the Eastern Shore of Virginia in 1850 to pursue
a career in the
merchant marine. His obituary in the Baltimore Sun on 28 August 1893
reports,"During the
civil war Captain Trower was master of the brig 'Sunny South' in which, until
near the close of the war, he ran the federal blockade and carried hospital
stores from New York to New Orleans..." Jesse Trower is buried in Loudon
Park Cemetery.
Daughter of Philip Stuart Fell, a merchant mariner and
Frances Ann Wise. Sarah married Jesse Trower in 1858. In the 1880 census the
Trowers are enumerated at 214 Sout Ann Street with their two sons, two
elderly aunts, two boarders, and one servant. A whole lot of people in one
rowhouse...
uploaded to file 14 October 2003
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