Major Oliver Trowbridge

Oliver Trowbridge enlisted from his native town in the army in the Revolution. He was in Capt. Peter Penfield's company in the 16th Regiment of Connecticut militia, Col. Nehemiah Beardsley, in the expedition to Fairfield and Norwalk, Conn, in July 1779.

In 1780 he is supposed to have removed with his brother Eli to a farm near the present town of Cairo, Greene County, NY. In 1796 he removed with his family to Great Bend, Susquehanna county, PA. "That year Horatio Strong had a license to keep a tavern. He had only a log house. this it appears was purchased by Oliver Trowbridge, who built in 1797 a frame part to it. An upper room was used by the Masonic lodge, and the walls of it were papered, the first instance of papered room in the county. He was licensed 1801."

He was elected supervisor of Great Bend (then Willingbrough) in 1797. In 1800 he was collector of state revenue for that place and Nine Partners. About this time he was one of the petitioners for a road from Red Rock by the river to the north line of the state. He later located on Section 4 of what was called "The Fan," just outside of Great Bend borough and extending about two miles on the river. He died from injuries in lifting a big stone in the Susquehanna river, and was buried on his farm in Castle Creek, Broome County, N.Y.