# John Fowler Trow > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/John_Fowler_Trow > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/John_Fowler_Trow.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Fowler_Trow > Source revision: 1354178178 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) {{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](/source/Andover%2C_Massachusetts), U.S. | death_date = {{death date and age|1886|8|8|1810|1|30}} | death_place = [Orange, New Jersey](/source/Orange%2C_New_Jersey), U.S. | occupation = [Printer](/source/Printer_(publishing)), publisher | known_for = ''Trow's New York City Directory'' | children = John Fowler Trow Jr. | relatives = [Ernest Trow Carter](/source/Ernest_Trow_Carter) (grandson)
[George W. S. Trow](/source/George_W._S._Trow) (great-great-grandson) }} __NOTOC__ '''John Fowler Trow''' (30 January 1810, in [Andover, Massachusetts](/source/Andover%2C_Massachusetts) – 8 August 1886, in [Orange](/source/Orange%2C_New_Jersey), New Jersey) was a [printer](/source/Printer_(publishing)) and publisher in New York City. == Life == Born in [Andover, Massachusetts](/source/Andover%2C_Massachusetts), he moved to New York in 1833. He began publishing [city directories](/source/City_directory) 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."{{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 }}{{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 }} Employees included Peter C. Baker. After Trow's death in 1886, ''Trow's Directory'' continued annually for some years. ==''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](/source/R.L._Polk_%26_Company) |location=NY }} == Family (descendants) == John F. Trow was the grandfather of organist [Ernest Trow Carter](/source/Ernest_Trow_Carter) (1866–1953). He was a great-great-grandfather of American essayist, novelist, playwright, and media critic [George William Swift Trow Jr.](/source/George_William_Swift_Trow_Jr.) (1943–2006). ==References== {{Reflist|30em|refs= ''[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 ''[https://archive.org/details/aey6116.0001.001.umich.edu/page/658 Fifty Years Among Authors, Books and Publishers],'' by [James Cephas Derby](/source/James_Cephas_Derby) (1818–1892), G.W. Carleton & Co. (George Washington Carleton; 1832–1901) (1884), pps. 300, 656, 658–659; {{OCLC|681333841|894918439|1031787608}} }} ==Further reading== * [New York City Directories](/source/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 {{Authority control}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Trow, John Fowler}} Category:1810 births Category:1886 deaths Category:People from Andover, Massachusetts Category:American printers Category:19th-century American businesspeople Category:19th-century American publishers (people) --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [John Fowler Trow](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Fowler_Trow) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Fowler_Trow?action=history)). Available under [Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Changes may have been made.