Marcus George Lafayette Trowbridge

Marcus Trowbridge was born in Kingsville, Missouri on May 6, 1867. He married Willie Pearl Houx on May 21, 1893 at Palo Pinto, Texas. On April 30, 1898, he enlisted in the Army and served as a Cook in Company C, 1st U.S. Cavalry during the Spanish-American War. He participated in the battles of Las Guasimas and Bunker Hill. While serving as company cook in the U.S. as well as in Cuba where smoke damaged his eyesight leading to problems throughout the rest of his life . He later contracted Malaria. On March 18, 1899, his first marriage ended in divorce. On January 18, 1902, he married a Cuban girl, Maria Luisa Ortega. After the war he remained in Cuba working as a miner, a surveyor, a supervisor in railroad construction and as a superintendent of the Water Works. Marcus then went to the Canal Zone and worked 30 years for the Panama Canal Company. After retirement he remained in Balboa, Panama until he died at Gorgas Hospital on May 14, 1936. He is buried next to his wife, Maria Luisa at the Corozal American Cemetery. Trowbridge's name is among those names inscribed on the Rough Rider Monument located in Prescott Arizona.