From the May, 1914 issue of Erie Railroad Magazine:
Ray Trowbridge, 53 years of age, one of the popular employes of the Erie Railroad, at Hornell, N.Y., died there recently. Mr. Trowbridge was born in Howard, February 26, 1861, and at an early age came to Hornell and entered the employ of the Erie, where he has worked continuously for thirty-five years as a yard fireman and engineer.

He leaves to mourn his loss two brothers, one daughter and one stepdaughter. Mr. Trowbridge had been married twice, his first wife being Miss Emma Brand, who died 23 years ago, and the second being Miss Ida M. Hallett, who died in December, 1911.

He had been a member of the B. of L.F. and B. of L.E. for 32 years and an Odd Fellow for over twenty years, besides being an active member of the Loyal Order of Moose. Mr. Trowbridge was a man of worth, one whose death is deeply deplored by the hundreds of railroad men whose good fortune it was to know him.