{{Short description|American printer and publisher}} {{Infobox person | name = John Fowler Trow | image = John Fowler Trow 1810 1886 portrait.png | image_size = 220px | caption = Portrait of J. F. Trow | birth_date = {{birth date|1810|1|30}} | birth_place = Andover, Massachusetts, U.S. | death_date = {{death date and age|1886|8|8|1810|1|30}} | death_place = Orange, New Jersey, U.S. | occupation = Printer, publisher | known_for = ''Trow's New York City Directory'' | children = John Fowler Trow Jr. | relatives = Ernest Trow Carter (grandson)<br>George W. S. Trow (great-great-grandson) }} __NOTOC__ '''John Fowler Trow''' (30 January 1810, in Andover, Massachusetts – 8 August 1886, in Orange, New Jersey) was a printer and publisher in New York City.
== Life == Born in Andover, Massachusetts, he moved to New York in 1833. He began publishing city directories in 1848. His business eventually became "John F. Trow & Son," the son being John Fowler Trow Jr. (1850–1912). The publisher then became "John F. Trow & Co."<ref>{{citation |title=Obituary: John F. Trow |work=American Bookmaker |publisher=Howard Lockwood |volume=3 |location=New York |date=September 1886 |page=89 |hdl=2027/mdp.39015086753038 }}</ref><ref>{{citation |title=John Fowler Trow |author=Henry W. Herrick |year=1901 |work=Manchester Historic Association Collections |location=Manchester, New Hampshire |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=vBcyAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA108 }}</ref> Employees included Peter C. Baker.<ref name="Derby 1884" /> After Trow's death in 1886, ''Trow's Directory'' continued annually for some years.<ref name="Williams 1913" />
==''Trow's Directory''== * {{cite book |title= Directory of the City of New York |publisher=John F. Trow |location=New York |editor=Henry Wilson |year=1852 |hdl = 2027/chi.27275303}} * {{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9IwtAAAAYAAJ |title=Trow's New York City Directory |year= 1857 }} ** [https://books.google.com/books?id=8oUtAAAAYAAJ 1859 ed.] ** [https://books.google.com/books?id=hY4tAAAAYAAJ 1865 ed.] ** [https://books.google.com/books?id=Xo0tAAAAYAAJ 1872 ed.] * {{cite book |title=Wilson's New York City Copartnership Directory |year=1864 |publisher=John F. Trow |location=New York |url=http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/008922973 }} * {{cite book |title=Trow's Business Directory of Manhattan and Bronx |series=Trow (Formerly Wilson's) business directory of the boroughs of Manhattan and the Bronx, city of New York1903-1911 |year=1898 |publisher=Trow Directory, Printing & Bookbinding Co. |url=http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/011262134 }} * {{cite book |title=Trow's Business Directory of the Borough of Queens |year=1899 |location=NY |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gPkvAAAAYAAJ&pg=RA1-PA79 }} * {{cite book |title=Trow's Business and Residential Directory of the Borough of Richmond, City of New York |year=1899 |location=NY |publisher=Trow Directory, Printing & Bookbinding Co. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hf4vAAAAYAAJ }} * {{cite book |title=Trow's General Directory of the Boroughs of Manhattan and Bronx |year=1909 |location=NY |publisher=Trow Directory, Printing & Bookbinding Co. |url= https://archive.org/stream/trowsgeneraldire19091trow#page/n5/mode/2up }} * {{cite book |title=R.L. Polk & Co.'s 1918-19 Trow New York Copartnership and Corporation Directory, Boroughs of Manhattan and Bronx |year=1919 |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=EJw0AQAAMAAJ |publisher=R.L. Polk & Company |location=NY }}
== Family (descendants) == John F. Trow was the grandfather of organist Ernest Trow Carter (1866–1953). He was a great-great-grandfather of American essayist, novelist, playwright, and media critic George William Swift Trow Jr. (1943–2006).
==References== {{Reflist|30em|refs=
<ref name="Williams 1913">''[https://books.google.com/books?id=62QQAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA56&lpg=PA56&dq=%22John+F+Trow%22+%22henry+wilson The Development and Growth of City Directories],'' by A.V. Williams, The Williams Directory Co. Print (1913), p. 56</ref>
<ref name="Derby 1884">''[https://archive.org/details/aey6116.0001.001.umich.edu/page/658 Fifty Years Among Authors, Books and Publishers],'' by James Cephas Derby (1818–1892), G.W. Carleton & Co. (George Washington Carleton; 1832–1901) (1884), pps. 300, 656, 658–659; {{OCLC|681333841|894918439|1031787608}}</ref>
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==Further reading== * New York City Directories * {{Citation |work = Bulletin of the New York Public Library |title=Check List of Directories of the City of New York |year=1901 |volume=5 |hdl=2027/nyp.33433081923769 }} * {{citation |title=Direct Me NYC 1786: A History of City Directories in the United States and New York City |author= Philip Sutton |year=2012 |publisher=New York Public Library |url= http://www.nypl.org/blog/2012/06/08/direct-me-1786-history-city-directories-US-NYC |work=NYPL Blogs }}
==External links== * {{Internet Archive author |sname=John Fowler Trow |birth=1810 |death=1886}} * WorldCat. [http://www.worldcat.org/wcidentities/lccn-n86018419 Trow, John Fowler 1810-1886] * HathiTrust. [http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/100513654 Trow's Directory] of New York City, various dates * Open Library. [https://openlibrary.org/search?q=New+York+Directory+Trow%27s&has_fulltext=true Trow's Directory] of New York City, various dates
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