Tracey, Charles – Trautwine, John Cresson
Tracey, Charles
congressman, was born May 27, 1847, in Albany, N. Y.
He was appointed aide-de-camp to Governor Tilden of New York in 1875; and was appointed commissary-general of subsistence of New York state in 1877. He was elected to the fiftieth congress to fill a vacancy; and was re-elected to the fifty-first; and re-elected to the fifty-second and fifty-third congresses as a democrat.
Tracey, John P
soldier, journalist, lawyer, congressman, was born Sept. 18, 1836, in Wayne county, Ohio. He enlisted as a private in the union army in 1862, and mustered out with the rank of first lieutenant in 1865; and was commissioned lieutenant-colonel of enrollwas ed militia in 1865. He settled in Stockton and engaged in the practice of law; removed to Springfield in 1874 and engaged in journalism as the editor of a republican newspaper. He was on the Grant electoral ticket in 1868; republican candidate for railroad commissioner in 1878; and candidate for elector at large on the Garfield ticket in 1880. He was commissioned United States marshal for the western district of Missouri in 1890, and served until 1894. He was elected to the fiftyfourth congress as a republican. He secured the adoption of a reform in the judiciary department, substituting stated salaries instead of fees to attorneys and marshals of the United States courts.
Tracy, Albert Haller
lawyer, state senator, congressman, was born June 17, 1793, in Norwich, Conn. He served three terms in congress from 1819 to 1825 as a representative from a district comprising almost the whole of that part of New York west of Seneca lake. In 1829 he was elected to the senate of New York for four years; and was re-elected for a second term of four years. He died Sept. 19, 1859, in Buffalo, N. Y.
Tracy, Andrew
state legislator, congressman, was born in Vermont. He was a representative in congress from Vermont from 1853 to 1855. He served ten years in the state legislature, a part of the time in each house, and was speaker from 1842 to 1845. He died Oct. 28, 1868, in Woodstock, Vt.
Tracy, Benjamin Franklin
soldier, lawyer, jurist, cabinet officer, was born April 26, 1830, in Owego, N. Y. In 1853 and 1856 he was elected district attorney of Tioga county; and was successively elected and re- elected member of the state legislature. He served in the civil war, and at its close was made a brigadiergeneral. During 1866- 73 he was United States district attora ney for the eastern district of New York; and during 1881-83 was an associate judge of the court of appeals. In 1888 he was chosen by President Harrison to be secretary of the navy, and his record in the creation of the new navy is a matter of history. He drafted the new charter for the greater city of New York; and in 1897 was a candidate for the mayoralty of that city.
Tracy, Charles Chapin
missionary, author, was born Oct. 31, 1838, in East Smithfield, Pa. He is a presbyterian foreign missionary; and the author of Letters to Members of Oriental Families; and Myra, or a Child's Story of Missionary Life.
Tracy, H. W
merchant, state legislator, congressman, was born Sept. 24, 1807, in Luzerne county, Pa. In 1861 and 1862 he was elected to the Pennsylvania state legislature; and was elected a representative from Pennsylvania to the thirtyeighth congress.
Tracy, Ira
missionary, author, was born Jan. 15, 1806, in Hartford, Vt. He was a congregational missionary in the East Indies; and the author of Duty to the Heathen. He died Nov. 10, 1875, in Bloomington, Wis.
Tracy, Joseph
clergyman, author, was born Nov. 3, 1794, in Hartford, Vt.
He was a congregational clergyman, secretary of the Massachusetts Colonization society; and the author of Three Last Things; and The Great Awakening, a History of the Revival of Religion in the Time of Edwards and Whitefield. He died March 24, 1874, in Beverly, Mass.
Tracy, Phineas Lyman
congressman, was born Dec. 25, 1786, in Norwich, Conn. He was a representative in congress from Genesee county, N. Y., from 1827 to 1833. He died Dec. 23, 1876, in Batavia, N. Y.
Tracy, Roger Sherman
physician, author, was born Dec. 9, 1841, in Windsor, Vt. He is a physician of New York city; and the author of Handbook of Sanitary Information for Householders; Essentials of Anatomy; Physiology and Hygiene; and The New Liber Primus.
Tracy, Uri
congressman, was born in Franklin, Conn. He was a representative in congress from New York from 1805 to 1807, and again from 1809 to 1813. He died in 1813.
Tracy, Uriah
lawyer, congressman, United States senator, was born Feb. 2, 1755, in Franklin, Conn. He was often chosen a state representative from Connecticut, and in 1793 was speaker of the house. He was a representative in congress from 1793 to 1796, and from 1796 to 1807 was a senator of the United States.
He was also a major-general of militia.
He died July 19, 1807, in Washington, D. C.
Trafton, Mark
clergyman, congressman, author, was born Aug. 1, 1810, in Bangor, Maine. He is a methodist clergyman of prominence, and was a member of the thirty-fourth congress in 1855-57, from Massachusetts. He is the author of Rambles in Europe; Safe Investment; Baptism: its Subjects and Mode; and Scenes in My Life.
Train, Arthur Savage
clergyman, educator, was born Sept. 1, 1812, in Framingham, Mass. He was ordained to the ministry in 1836, as pastor of the baptist church in Haverhill, Mass., and he continued in that relation for twentythree years, resigning his pastorate to accept the professorship of sacred rhetoric and pastoral duties in Newton Theological seminary. He died Jan. 2, 1872, in Framingham, Mass.
Train, Charles Russell
soldier, lawyer, jurist, state legislator, congressman, was born Oct. 18, 1817, in Framingham, Mass. He was elected to the Massachusetts legislature in 1847; and from 1848 to 1851 he was district attorney for northern Massachusetts. He was a second time appointed district attorney; and in 1857 and 1858 served as a member of the state council. He was elected a representative from Massachusetts to the thirtysixth congress; and was re-elected to the thirty-seventh congress. In 1875 he was elected attorney-general of Massachusetts.
Train, Elizabeth Phipps
author, was born in 1857 in Massachusetts. She is a novelist of Duxbury, Mass.; and the author of Dr. Lamar; Autobiography of a Professional Beauty; A Social Highwayman; A Marital Liability. Her translations from the French include The Apostate; The Shadow of Dr. Laroque; and Recollections of the Court of the Tuileries.
Train, George Francis
lecturer, author, was born March 24, 1829, in Boston, Mass. He is a lecturer of New York city; and the author of an American Merchant in Europe; Young America Abroad; Young America in Wall Street; Spread Eagleism; Union Speeches; and Irish Independency.
Trall, Russell Thacher
physician, author, was born Aug. 5, 1812, in Vernon, Conn. He was a homœopathic physician of New York city, and subse quently of Florence, N. J. He was the author of The Bath: the History and Uses of, in Health and Disease; Digestion and Dyspepsia; The Mother's Hygienic Handbook; The Human Voice; Popular Physiology; The True Temperance Platform; Encyclopedia of Hydropathy; and Uterine Diseases. He died Sept. 23, 1017, in Florence, N. J.
Trammell, Leander Newton
state senator, was born June 5, 1830, in Habersham county, Ga. In 1861 and 1863 he was a representative in the Georgia legislature; and in 1870 was president of the senate.
Trapier, Paul
congressman. He was a delegate from South Carolina to the continental congress from 1777 to 1778.
Trask, Jabez Nelson
educator, clergyman, author, was born Oct. 19, 1831, in Freedom, Maine. In 1863 he was employed by the New England Educational commission as superintendent of abandoned plantations on Port Royal island, S. C. In 1871-72 he was United States Indian agent among the Utahs in southwestern Colorado. In 1894 he published a work entitled Adjusted Constitution of Massachusetts. Since 1868 he has been a clergyman, and has filled pastorates in various cities throughout the United States.
Trask, William Blake
author, genealogist, was born Nov. 25, 1812, in Dorchester, Mass. He has contributed extensively to the Historical and Genealogical Register of Boston, Mass. He copied the ancient town records of Boston, and made fac similes of autographs for Samuel G.
Drake's history of that city; and contributed extensively to the New England Historical and Genealogical Register, and various other publications.
Trautwine, John Cresson
civil engineer, author, was born March 30, 1810, in Philadelphia, Pa. He was a civil engineer of eminence; and the author of Method of Calculating Cubic Contents of Excavations and Embankments; Field Practice of Laying out Railroad Curves; and Civil Engineer's Pocket-Book. He died Sept. 14, 1883, in Philadelphia, Pa.