Adeline Martha Mann & Clarence Helmer Turner, parents of the Turner siblings

Adeline Martha Mann was the granddaughter of Clement Trowbridge and Olive Smith, and the daughter of Olive Lucinda Trowbridge and Henry Rice Mann:

Henry Rice Mann was a cabinet-maker.  They married in Michigan, and they had four children: Marian, Henry R. Jr., Adeline, and Hetty.

Henry Rice Mann came to California in the gold rush.  His diary of the trip is in the Bancroft Library, and we have a digital copy.  Olive Lucinda and the children followed some time later by covered wagon (possibly accompanied by her brother James Smith Trowbridge and his family, and brother-in-law Henry G. Whipple, without his family), only to receive news on the way that Henry Rice Mann had been killed by a bear.  (A captive bear, not a wild bear.)  Adeline was about 7 at this time.  The family continued to California, and Olive Lucinda became a hotel keeper in Jackson (1852 Census).  She eventually eventually married her late husband's business partner, William McKim:

Adeline grew up and married Carence Helmer Turner, son of Eleanor "Ellen" De Garmo and Jesse Foote Turner.  Adeline, Clarence, and their children eventually moved to the bay area in the 1880's, where Adeline ran a boarding house for students at 2239 Dwight Way and Clarence worked as a bookkeeper.  His mother Ellen lived with them.

The right-hand picture was taken in 1902.  The adults on the left side are Adeline, Clarence, and Ellen DeGarmo (rear); The three younger women on the right side are Jessie (rear), Olive, and Chester's wife May (far right).  The two children are probably Olive's children Adeline (age 6/7) and Wilber (age 1/2).  Jessie had a ~1 yr old son, but he apparently isn't in this picture.  May and Chester had no children as far as we know.  Wallace wasn't married yet, Henry had recently married and had no children yet, and William's family lived out-of-state, so there were only three Bay Area grandchildren at this time.  (This is a scan of a photocopy.  Eventually we will get a scan of the original.  The adults are identified on the back of the photograph in a note written by Phyllis Embury Turner LaPlante.)

 

Here are Adeline and Clarence in about 1903.  

Adeline Cox (grandaughter of Adeline & Clarence, through their daughter Olive) says in her oral history:

[They moved to the bay area] well, for whatever reason, either his drinking problem or the fact that there were very few opportunities for work for young people. My grandmother came to San Francisco in the 80s somewhere to size up the situation and left my mother in charge of the household and the younger children. My mother [Olive Eleanor Trowbridge] at that time was fourteen or fifteen years old. Eventually she had trouble controlling the rest of the children, so she has told me, and so she, I guess, got word to her mother that [she should] fish or cut bait, and the family moved to San Francisco. My mother s uncle, my grandmother s brother [Henry Rice Mann Jr.], was a very well known insurance man in San Francisco. Mann and Wilson was the name of the firm. He was in the state legislature a time or two and was well to do. We were always the poor relations, and my mother was very aware of that.

[My mother] worked in an office in San Francisco, in the insurance company.  He gave employment to a number of cousins and to my grandfather, his brother-in-law.  So, they lived then in San Francisco, and it was some time later that they moved to Berkeley and they bought this big house on Dwight Way; they bought it from a relative.

My mother's grandmother's maiden name was Ellen De Garmo, and she couldn t read or write. When she married [Jesse Foote] Turner, who later was a judge in Jackson, the story is that she told him if she was good enough to marry him when she couldn't read or write, why, she was good enough still so she never learned.  It apparently was a problem in her later days, because she -- then a widow -- lived in Berkeley with her son and daughter-in-law, and then the son died, and my grandmother had the boarding house for students. Ellen De Garmo couldn t fill in her time. She couldn't read or write, and she was too old to be trusted with some of the kitchen and cooking and so on, and I ve been told that it
was very difficult for her because she'd been a hard worker all her life, and here she was, an appendage.

Clarence died around 1905 (an error in the Cox oral history says 1929).  According to Adeline Cox's oral history, she sold the house and went to keep house for her youngest son Wallace, then unmarried.  It's unclear whether she then lived with others of her children (Adeline Cox says she "lived around with her children"), but she ended up with her daughter Olive in Alameda.  She died March 15, 1932.

Adeline's brother Henry Rice Mann Jr. moved to Sacramento (1866) and then to San Francisco where he worked in the insurance business and lived at 843 Mission (1873), then at 3004 Sacramento (1886) then at 2011 California (1890) (CA Voter Registers).

Nelson Seymour Trowbridge Sr. & Jessie C. "Katie" Clayton, parents of the Trowbridge siblings

Pictures of Katie and Nelson taken by their adult daughter, Jessie June, during the family's time in Alaska.

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

The Turner Siblings

The six Turner siblings were Jesse William De Garmo, Olive Eleanor, Henry Mann, Chester Helmer, Jessie Gertrude, and Wallace Foote.  All were born in Jackson, the gold-rush town where their parents grew up (with the exception of the second child, Olive, who was born in Surprise Valley).  The family eventually moved to Berkeley in the 1880's, where the mother Adeline ran a boarding house for students at 2239 Dwight Way and the father Clarence worked as a bookkeeper.  His mother Ellen De Garmo Turner, lived with them.  The older siblings would have been nearing or in adulthood at the time of the move.  Only the youngest two siblings, Jessie and Wallace, attended Cal.

Wallace Foote Turner

Wallace Foot Turner (or Wallace Foote Turner) was the youngest of the Turner siblings.  Born August 16, 1878 in Jackson CA, he moved as a child with his mother and siblings to San Francisco and then Berkeley.  He attended Cal, graduating in 1905, at the age of 27.  (Why the delay in going to college?)  Starting in 1907 he may have lived in Glenn Ellen along with his mother Adeline Mann Turner, sister Olive Turner Toye, and niece Adeline Toye, commuting to Vallejo to teach while the family ran a poultry farm together.  (Adeline Toye Cox's oral history mentions an uncle in this context, and Wallace seems like the only possibility.)  This would also fit with the family story that he courted Kate Elliot Trowbridge when she was a piano teacher in -- memories vary -- Ione or Glen Ellen.  (The Trowbridge parents and some children moved to Glen Ellen in 1904, also to do poultry farming -- Trowbridge Genealogy.  This was probably not a coincidence.  The Turner mom and the Trowbridge dad were first cousins who grew up together in Jackson, so they presumably stayed in touch.)

Wallace and Kate Elliot married October 24, 1908, in Oakland. He was eight years older than her.  Their first child, Kate Elliot Jr., was born Dec. 2 1909, in Esparto, where Wallace had a teaching position.  Their second child, Wallace Foot Jr., was born Sept. 21 1912 in Ione.  According to a living family member, he was the superintendent of Preston, The California boys reformatory.  He eventually took a teaching position in Santa Barbara, where [fill in details].  Their third child, Adeline Ruth, was born there Nov. 26, 1916.

Near the end of WWI (for about the last 18 months of it) he went to Europe with the YMCA, and returned with health problems that incapacitated him.  He was unable to work, and the family moved inland to Lancaster CA for his health.  The family ran a small dairy farm there.  He died May 31, 1922, at the age of 43.

The top right picture is intriguing.  It's a tintype that was found in Elliot Jr.'s collection.  The young man is clearly Wallace, but is the woman Kate Elliot?  The nose, mouth, and eyebrows look right, not so much the eyes or hair.  But it seems unlikely that Elliot Jr. would have kept a photo of her father and another woman!  If it is her, then this was probably taken during their courtship, perhaps in Glenn Ellen or somewhere they went on a day trip?

The bottom two photos are from the 1914 and 1916 yearbooks of Santa Barbara High School. 

Jessie Gertrude Turner

 

 With sister Olive, and with niece Elliot:

  

With Elliot, Olive, and husband Fred:

 

The second-youngest Turner sibling, born Jan. 4, 1876, in Jackson CA.  She attended Cal (class of 1897), and married Frederick Octavius Hurt, who was from England.  Family lore is that he proposed to her by Strawberry Creek on the Cal campus. They lived in Berkeley in a house that they had built at 2197 Regent St.

The 1900 Census shows her living with her parents at age 24, and it says she's a university teacher.

Chester Helmer Turner

We have little information about Chester and his wife May, probably because they had no children and so there was no one to pass on stories.  Chester was born May 7, 1873, in Jackson CA, the fourth of the six Turner siblings.  The family was still living in Amador Co. in 1880, but he would have still been a child when the family moved to the Bay Area. 

In 1896, age 22, voter registration shows him living at the family home at 2239 Dwight Way in Berkeley, working as a clerk.  He was 5'5" as is described as light skinned, brown hair and brown eyes.  (The same record lists his father Clarence Helmer Turner, age 55, same address, and father's cousin Nelson Seymour Trowbridge, age 51, living at 2119 Bancroft.  Presumably the two families were in close contact.)

When he was ~24 he married Margaret May Noble, also ~24, known in our family as Aunt May.  She was born in Montana (1910 census) or Wyoming (1930 census) and her parents were born in Ohio. According to the 1940 census, she had an 8th grade education.

In 1910 they were living in Lassen County, Township 3, where he was a farmer, "working out" (working for someone else). 

In 1918 his draft registration card shows his permanent residence at 716 Market St., Oakland, but place of employment as Winnemucca, NV.  He was working as a carpenter for Western Pacific Railroad.  May was living at the Oakland address, and he registered in Oakland.  He was 45 years old by this time, which explains the relatively late date of draft registration.  He is described as short and slender.

I have a note of them living in Newcastle, Placer County, CA, and also of them having an almond orchard.  Date and source uncertain.

He died Sept. 27, 1929, at the age of 56.  After his death, May moved to Alameda.  The 1930 census shows her at age 57 living with Olive and Fred Toye (Olive was Chester's sister), and the mother of the Turner siblings, Adeline Martha Mann Turner.  In the 1940 census, at age 67, she was living in an apartment on Sutter Street in San Jose and working as a labeler for a coffee company.  She died 15 Sep 1959 at age 86 in Alameda (county or city?).

Henry Mann Turner

The third Turner sibling, born April 4 1870 in Jackson CA. 

He married Mary Elizabeth "Marie" Embury on December 18, 1901, in Berkeley CA.  She was born in 1878 in California, and was about 8 years younger than him.  In 1900 she was living with her family in Berkeley, and working as a teacher. 

Henry and Marie had three children, Marie Adeline Turner (b. 1906, m. Wesley Ernest Schreiber, d. 1991); Phyllis Embury Turner (b. 1910, m. Walter Ellsworth LaPlante, d. 1985), and Henry Mann Turner Jr. (b. 1912, m. Cecile Juliet DeLeon, d. 1966).

In 1910, ages 40 and 32, they were living in Berkeley.  Henry's profession is listed as something that looks like "Tile-setter."   Also living with them was Marie's brother Phillip A. Embury, age 18, b. California, working as a teacher. In 1920 they still lived in Berkeley, renting at 1544 Milvia Ct.  He was working as a carpenter for the railroad, and Phillip still lived with them. In 1930 they owned their home at 1712 Jaynes(?), and he was working as a janitor.  The three children, ages 23, 19, and 17, still lived with them, the older two working as a clerk and as a typist, both at insurance company(s).

Marie died  June 15, 1943, in Berkeley CA.  Henry Sr. died October 29, 1957, in Oakland CA.

Olive Eleanor Turner

Olive was the second Turner sibling, born Nov. 4 1867 in Surprise Valley CA.  She is shown here with her husband Fred Toye; with her baby Adeline, her father, and her paternal grandmother; and with (we think) her second child Wilber.

She married Frederick Wilbur Toye, and they lived in Alameda.  Fred Toye was from Nova Scotia, went to sea, and ended up in San Francisco.  He built a house in Alameda in 1890, then married Olive on June 6, 1894.  Their daughter was Margaret Adeline Toye Cox, whose oral history of the family can be found at the Bancroft Library at UC Berkeley.  (We have a digital copy.)  They also had a younger son, Frederick Wilber Jr.  For some period of time Olive's mother, Adeline Martha Mann Turner, lived with them.

A living relative says of Olive: "She had an almost pixie-ish quality to her.  She was very petite.  She had the same kind of -- I wouldn't want to say restrained, but her laugh, it must have been the way they [Jessie and Olive] were brought up, they laughed very gently."

This is a closeup of her from the Turner Women 1931 picture:

The following pictures were taken at two separate family occasions (though Olive is wore the same dress to both) in the late 1940's in San Francisco at the home of her niece Elliot Jr (daughter of Wallace):

In the left-hand picture she is with Elliot Jr., her brother-in-law Fred Hurt, and her sister Jessie Turner Hurt.  That's Jessie again in the right-hand picture:

Adeline Cox says of her mother:

My mother . . . was working for the firm in San Francisco.  Another employee of the firm was married and living in Alameda, about a block down from my father s house. My mother came over on weekends from time to time to spend the weekend with this family, and that s how they met.

My mother [had] a sense of inferiority that was terrible and partly was due to her size. I haven't mentioned yet: She was 4' 10". Her mother (my grandmother), my Aunt Jessie, and my mother had very thin hair, very thin hair.  

As the second oldest (and oldest girl) in a family of six children, she was perhaps early given responsibilities beyond her years, which may have led to a feeling of failure, Her father drank to excess. This may have been one of the reasons for leaving Jackson. When she was working in San Francisco, she often had to look her father up, when he was on a binge, and get him home on the ferryboat to Berkeley, where they were then living. She had girl cousins in San Francisco, who were about her age and who worked in the same office. Some of the San Francisco and Berkeley relatives were also in better financial circumstances. They were more buxom than she, and were more sophisticated in dress and manner. The fact that her hair was so thin was a continual source of disappointment to her. All of this tended to increase what may have been an innate shyness; at any rate she failed to assert herself. She was very close to her mother, who was of a more dominant nature.

My mother and father, I think lived for their children. I don t know that they particularly resented the restrictions of money. Although my mother was conscious of the fact that she had relatives who were "better off" financially.

My father was a "parlor pink." My father was a Socialist, in name only.  My mother's brother-in-law [Jessie's husband Fred Hurt] had come up through the business world and had succeeded financially better than my family. Why these two men kept on arguing, I'll never know. By then (the 30s) the Berkeley family (Jessie and Fred Hurt) had a car, an automobile I mean, and they used to come over and take my mother and father on picnics or even for overnight weekend jaunts. The two women would sit there while the two men argued, you know, capitalism versus socialism . . . My uncle was very, very conservative.

My mother was a great one for family connections. She enjoyed writing letters. She kept up with everybody, with her letters.  She was a little strict about Sundays. She wouldn't allow herself to tat on Sundays, but she would allow herself to write letters. 

For many years, since my grandmother and my Aunt Jessie were living in Berkeley, we went to my grandmother s for Thanksgiving, we came to our house in Alameda for Christmas, and we went to my Aunt Jessie s for New Year s. By now there were younger cousins than myself, you see.  My Aunt Jessie and Uncle Fred had three, and my Uncle Henry and Aunt Marie had three. They were all younger than I. That went on for a good many years, until all of the children were getting a little too old for that, at the adolescent age and no longer interested. But for, oh, I suppose, five, six, eight years, we always it was understood that these family dinners would be one place for Thanksgiving, one place for Christmas, and then another place for New Years.

My mother and father, as I think I've indicated, didn't have many expectations for themselves. My father was interested in supporting his family and earning a living. My mother was the seek-peace-and-pursue-it type who saw herself as a housewife and a child rearer. When I or my brother later began to do well in school, I think they put all of their eggs into their children s baskets. They had no ambitions for themselves. They were willing to make sacrifices for us. They were very proud of us. Perhaps I ve said we were not a demonstrative family, but I don t recall ever missing that or having any idea in the world that they didn t love me or weren't later proud of me.

When I would go to these affairs [church activities etc.], my mother always said, "Don t forget that you come of a long line of ladies." I thought that was a little funny because I had always thought of ladies as being on a higher economic level than we!

Olive died March 23, 1958, in Alameda.

Jesse William De Garmo Turner

"Bill" was the oldest of the Turner siblings, born June 24, 1865, in Jackson CA, a good 13 years older than his youngest brother, my great-grandfather Wallace.  He married a second cousin on his father's side, Jessie Gertrude Skinner (grand-daughter of Peter Helmer Turner, one of Jesse Foote Turner's brothers).  Bill was the only Turner sibling who left California -- he and Jessie made their home in Sioux City, Iowa, near Jessie's parents. 

At age 14, in Amador County, Bill was an apprentice druggist (1880 Census).  By age 21, when the rest of his immediate family had moved to the bay area, he was living in San Diego and working as an insurance agent (California voter registry).

 Jessie was born in Wisconsin, Feb 1861 (1900 census), the was the oldest of four children of Elisha William Skinner and Clarinda (Clara) Gertrude Turner (Peter Helmer Turner's daughter).  In 1870 when she was 9 they lived in Madison, Wisconsin, and her father was a manufacturer.  In 1880 at age 19 she was still living with her parents, in Sioux City, Iowa.  Her father was now a sewing machine agent.

I don't know where Bill and Jessie met and got to know each other, but they married on 16 Oct, 1888. Over the years Bill worked as a hay dealer, coal and wood dealer, and real estate agent.  He applied for a passport in 1893, and in 1895 they had a domestic living with them, so they must have been reasonably well off.  Their religion was Congregational.  They had six children: William (b. Sept 1889), Elisha (b. July, 1891),  John (b. June 1892), Olive (b. Aug 1895), Helen (b. Aug 1897), and Clarence (b. 1900). Between 1895 and 1897 the family moved to Illinois.  By 1910, Jessie's widowed mother was living with them.

Bill died May 24, 1905, at the age of 49.  In 1920, the widowed Jessie was living in Chicago with her son Elisha, age 28, working as a mechanic; daughter Helen, age 22, working as a biologist at a school; and son Helmer, age 18.

The Trowbridge Siblings

The six Trowbridge siblings were Jessie June, Eloise Hammond, Leslie Amelia, Kate Elliot, Nelson Seymour Jr., and Olive Rose.  (An oldest boy, James Clayton, died at age 2 before the others were born.  I'll refer to birth order without counting him.)

The children were born variously in Nevada and California, and possibly also in Utah, as the family moved around for papa Nelson's merchanting and mining businesses.  When the older children were at or near adulthood the family spent time in Alaska at a mining camp.

The family was clearly cultured.  The father started out as a teacher, and the parents were among the co-founders of the First Unitarian Church of Berkeley in 1891. Three sisters were photographed posing with musical instruments, and an interior shot of their very rough cabin in Alaska shows a music stand.  One sister was a photographer and another was a painter who attended art school.  The four oldest sisters attended Cal, and the brother may have as well.

 

The five Trowbridge sisters: Leslie, Eloise, Jessie, Olive, Kate Elliot.  I can't help wondering if they are posing in dresses they made themselves, as the skill of the dress-making increases with age (with the exception of Olive, who would be too young to make her own). 

The house where they are posing appears to be the same one as in the individual portraits where Nelson and Olive are shown outside.  If all the individual portraits are from the same time, then the ones of Leslie and Eloise presumably show the interior of the same house.  From the background of this group portrait, the location is probably Nevada or California. 

Olive Rose Trowbridge

 The top picture is courtesy of Olive Rose's granddaughter.  The childhood pictures are from the photography collection of Jessie June Trowbridge.  The bottom two photos are IDed tentatively, based on who else is in the pictures.  They were probably taken in 1913, when Olive Rose was about 23, but would have to be before she started showing her first pregnancy.  I would be very interested in hearing from anyone who can confirm the identity of these last two pictures, or who has other pictures of Olive Rose.

Born Dec 4, 1890 (Trowbridge Genealogy), in California (census records).  During her childhood the family was based in the east bay, but spent extended amounts of time in Alaska where father Nelson ran a mining company.

In 1910, at age 19, she lived in Berkeley with her sister Leslie and Leslie's husband and children, along with brother Nelson and their mother.  She was not employed.  There is also no record of her attending Cal, although her older sisters did.

In 1910 she married John Franklin Trusty, one of several brothers who moved from Maine to Marin County, from a family of Maine farm laborers, originally French Canadian. Three of his brothers lived in San Rafael in 1910 running a bookstore.  In 1914 Olive (and presumably John) lived in Glen Ellen, southeast of Santa Rosa, where several members of the Trowbridge and Turner families had moved to take up poultry farming. (Olive registered to vote as a Progressive; John appears not to have registered.  Brother Joseph M. Trusty, previously of the San Rafael bookstore, also registered to vote in Glen Ellen in 1914, and was working as a cook.  Joseph later went on to become an attorney working in SF.)

 Piecing together census records and personal communication from living family, Olive Rose and John had four children:
- Kathryn Mary, 1913
- Olive R., 1914
- John Franklin, 1915
- Thomas, 1916
 Olive Rose died in 1918 in the flu epidemic, while pregnant again.  The children were given to relatives and neighbors, and by two years later her husband John was living in lodgings in Merced, working as an auto mechanic.  Thereafter he moved around California, and died in Los Angeles at the age of 76.

Kathryn went to live with her aunt Mattie Evelyn Trusty, the divorced ex-wife of eldest Trusty brother William Robert Trusty.  (William and Mattie had been the manager and asst manager of the bookstore.)  In 1920 Mattie was living in San Rafael (census) and/or Corte Madera (SF phone book) and working as a manager at a publishing company in San Francisco.  She appears to have kept on friendly terms with at least some of her in-laws -- in 1918 Peter Trusty (one of the bookstore brothers) was also living in Corte Madera and listed her as next-of-kin on his draft registration.  (Peter was an interesting character.  He was a mechanic and inventor, and though he was blinded in WWI he continued to work, doing engineering work for the war effort during WWII in Los Angeles.) (Ex-husband William also ended up in Los Angeles, working as a book salesman, and re-married to a much younger woman.)

Olive went to live with her aunt and uncle, Eloise (Trowbridge) Ellis and Frank Ellis.  She could not have lived with them very long.  Eloise died in 1923, and when Frank remarried to his widowed sister-in-law (Kate Elliot (Trowbridge) Turner) in 1924, Olive was no longer living with him.  (At least, my grandmother, who became Frank Ellis's stepdaughter, did not mention her.)

By 1930 Mattie Trusty had moved to Los Angeles and had custody of both Kathryn and Olive, and worked as a manager for publishing company.  They lived in the home of Edith Lacey, also a single career woman, and are listed as Edith's partner and daughters, respectively, suggesting a warm family-like arrangement (not just lodgers of convenience).

Kathryn married Elmore Darwin Johnson and had two children.  She died in Riverside CA at the age of 95.  Olive attended UCLA, and died in Nevada at the age of 96.

Olive Rose's son Thomas was adopted by John's sister Sara Jane "Sadie" and her husband Fred Hawkes, in Maine. John Franklin was taken in by neighbors Julian and Louise Kendrick. He wasn't formally adopted but he took their name.

[Posted edited based on the information in the comment below.]

Nelson Seymour Trowbridge Jr.

 Born Nov. 18, 1888, in Berkeley CA.  His WWI draft card lists him as tall, medium build, blue eyes and light brown hair.

In 1910, at age 21, he was living in Oakland with his sister Leslie and her husband (as well as sister Olive and their mother), and working as an office clerk at an insurance company.

He married Marie B., who was born in California abt. 1894.  They married some time before June 1917 (according to his draft card).  According to family history she was Mexican, but according to the 1920 census her parents were born in California. (Her parents were presumably born after 1848, when the U.S. annexed California, but they probably meant that she was culturally Mexican.)  Their marriage was a bit of a scandal in the family.  My grandmother Elliot, who was her niece, liked her very much and wanted to name her own daughter after her, but felt obliged to name her after a different relative.  Our family's pumpkin pie recipe was from aunt Marie (and according to Elliot's sister Ruth, it was originally a recipe for squash pie).

In 1920 they were living in Vallejo, he was working as a freight agent for a steamship company, and she was working as a dressmaker for private customers.  They had no children at this time.  In 1930 they lived in Antioch (Contra Costa county).  He was working as a salesman and she was not employed.  Still no children.

In 1942, according to his WWII draft card, he lived on Oil Canyon Road in Antioch, and worked for the California State Automobile Association in Martinez.  He listed his sister Leslie as "person who will always know your address."  Probably she was his only surviving sibling.  

He died August 3, 1961, in Contra Costa County.