Israel Clapp Trow

1815–1887 (Age 71)
Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States

The Life of Israel Clapp

When Israel Clapp Trow was born on 20 September 1815, his father, Orin Trow, was 45 and his mother, Hannah Robinson, was 38. He married Esther H. Marcy on 9 November 1836, in Southbridge, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States. He died on 2 August 1887, in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States, at the age of 71, and was buried in Southbridge, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States.

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Israel Clapp Trow
1815–1887
Esther H. Marcy
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Marriage: 9 November 1836

Spouse & Children

MARRIAGE
9 November 1836
Southbridge, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States

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World Events (8)

1819 · Panic! of 1819

Age 4

With the Aftermath of the Napoleonic Wars the global market for trade was down. During this time, America had its first financial crisis and it lasted for only two years. 
1820 · Making States Equal

Age 5

The Missouri Compromise helped provide the entrance of Maine as a free state and Missouri as a slave state into the United States. As part of the compromise, slavery was prohibited north of the 36°30′ parallel, excluding Missouri.
1836 · Remember the Alamo

Age 21

Being a monumental event in the Texas Revolution, The Battle of the Alamo was a thirteen-day battle at the Alamo Mission near San Antonio. In the early morning of the final battle, the Mexican Army advanced on the Alamo. Quickly being overrun, the Texian Soldiers quickly withdrew inside the building. The battle has often been overshadowed by events from the Mexican–American War, But the Alamo gradually became known as a national battle site and later named an official Texas State Shrine.

Name Meaning

1 English (chiefly West Midlands): nickname for a trustworthy person, from Middle English trow(e), trew(e) ‘faithful’, ‘steadfast’.2 English: variant of Tree , from Middle English trow, trew.3 English: topographic name for someone who lived near a depression in the ground, from Middle English trow ‘trough’, ‘hollow’.

Possible Related Names

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

Sources (1)

  • Isarel C. Trow, "Massachusetts Deaths, 1841-1915"

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