Here are two pictures that we have tentatively identified as Kate Clayton Trowbridge. They were taking at what appears to be a spring outing, next to or on a boat, with three of her daughters and their children. If our identifications are correct, this must have been spring 1913, so it would have been shortly before she died.
It seems like this woman has to be related to the Trowbridge siblings. The resemblance to Eloise, Nelson Jr., and Olive Rose is striking, particularly the shape of the lower half of the face and the nose. Kate C. is the most likely identification, based on age and who else is in the full picture.
Katie was born October 23, 1848 in Dudleyville, AL. Her father, Joshua Elliot Clayton, came to California in the gold rush, and we have a digital copy of his diary from that time. At some point the family joined him in California (need to do more research on this).
Nelson was born July 6, 1845 in Battle Creek, MI. He was 6' tall, brown hair, brown eyes (1). He was the grandson of Olive Smith and Clement Trowbridge, the common ancestors of the two families. His father was James Smith Trowbridge, and his mother was Mary Ann Seymour. The family lived in Emmet, MI, in 1850, and moved to California in 1852, when Nelson was 7.
From "The Bay of San Francisco": "accompanied his parents across the plains to California, in 1852, first locating at Shingle Springs, El Dorado county, where the father engaged in mining until 1854, at which time the family removed to Jackson, Amador county. He graduated at the State Normal School in May, 1866, and taught school in several places in California; became the bookkeeper for the Oneida Mining Company in January, 1869; later he went to Santa Cruz and clerked a year. In 1871, he went to Nevada and engaged in merchandising and mining until 1890, when he came to Berkeley and formed the partnership already mentioned; but he is still interested in business in Nevada.”
Here is a list of facts that helps to trace Katie and Nelson's travels:
- July 1845 Nelson born in Battle Creek MI
- 1852 Nelson's family moved to Shingle Springs
- 1852 Nelson's family lived in Calaveras county (Calif census)
- 1854 Nelson's family moved to Jackson
- 1866 Nelson graduated from Calif State Normal School
- 1866 Nelson lived in Sacramento, occupation manufacturer (Calif Biographical Great Books)
- 1866 voter registration, Sacramento,
- April 20, 1866, voter registration in Jackson, age 21, profession teacher (also lists his father, James Smith Trowbridge, occupation farmer, age 49)
- Jan 1869 became bookkeeper for Oneida Mining Company
- May 1869 married
- July 1870 living in Amador Township #1 (post office: Jackson), Nelson was a clerk for a mine (census record)
- Abt 1870 James born
- 1871 lived in Santa Cruz and worked as a clerk (voter registration record).
- 1871 moved to Nevada
- 1872 James died in Eureka Nevada
- 1874 Jessie June born in Utah
- 1875 Tybo, Nye County, Nevada, merchant (Nevada census)
- abt 1877 Eloise born in Nevada
- 1880 living in Nye County Nevada, merchant
- abt 1882 Leslie born
- 1886 Kate Elliot born
- 1888 Nelson Jr. born
- 1888 (Trow. Gen.) or 1890 (Bay of SF) moved back to Berkeley, formed mercantile business
- 1890 voter registration, merchant, Durant Ave. east of Choate in Berkeley
- 1891 co-founded the First Unitarian Church of Berkeley
- abt. 1891 Olive Rose born
- 1894 took charge of the Bald Eagle Mine in Sumdum Alaska (family moved back & forth 4 times in the next 5 years)
- 1896 lived at 2119 Bancroft in Berkeley, and his profession was listed as mining (1)
- abt 1899 moved back to Berkeley (i.e. no longer based in Alaska) due to ill health, ran mines in different counties until 1904
- 1900 census Berkeley, all kids but Jessie June living with them, plus nephew Nelson Gunn
- 1904 moved to Glen Ellen, started a poultry farm with Jessie June (Trowbridge Genealogy)
- 1910 Kate living with Leslie & William Brown, Nelson Sr. presumably dead
- 1913 Kate died (according to Tami Allred on Ancestry.com)
(1) 1896 voter registration record
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