John Townsend Trowbridge

Neighbor's Wives (1867) John Townsend Trowbridge

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Contributor Bio:  Trowbridge, John Townsend John Townsend Trowbridge (1827-1916) was born in a log cabin his father constructed through the use of wooden pegs. After teaching and working on a farm for one year in Illinois, he settled in New York City where he wrote for journals and magazines. He moved to Boston in August of 1848, and in 1850, during the absence of Benjamin Perley Poore in Washington, D. C., edited Poore's paper, the Sentinel, but his editorial on the fugitive-slave law nearly destroyed the paper's popularity. His novels include Neighbor Jackwood, an antislavery novel; The Old Battle-Ground; Cudjo's Cave; The Three Scout; Lucy Arlyn; Neighbors' Wives; Coupon Bonds, and Other Stories; and Farnell's Folly. Trowbridge also wrote numerous works under the pseudonym of Paul Creyton. In Darius Green and his Flying Machine, Trowbridge penned the following prophetic verse: "Darius was clearly of the opinion / That the air is also man's dominion / And that with paddle or fin or pinion, / We soon or late shall navigate / The azure as now we sail the sea." Since his death he has been well known as a friend of Mark Twain and Walt Whitman.