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Townsend, Dwight – Tracey, Charles

Townsend, Dwight

merchant, congressman, was born in 1826 in New York city. In 1864 he was elected a representative from New York to the thirty-eighth congress to fill a vacancy; and was also elected to the forty-second congress.

Townsend, Eliza

poet, was born in 1789 in Boston, Mass. She was a versewriter of Boston whose collected Poems and Miscellanies appeared in 1856. She died Jan. 12, 1854, in Boston, Mass.

Townsend, Frederick

soldier, was born Sept. 21, 1825, in Albany, N. Y.

In 1856 he became adjutant-general of the state. He served in various capacities during the civil war as major; and in 1878 was appointed a brigadier-general in the state militia, and afterward became adjutant-general.

Townsend, Howard

physician, author, was born Nov. 22, 1823, in Albany, N. Y. He was a physician of Albany; and the author of The Sunbeam and the Spectroscope; Food and its Digestion; and Sinai Bible. He died Jan. 16, 1867, in Albany, N. Y.

Townsend, James

congressman. He was elected a representative from New York to the second congress. He died in May, 1791.

Townsend, James Mulford

capitalist, philanthropist, was born Jan. 20, 1825, in New Haven, Conn. The Townsend prize fund, amounting to one hundred dollars, was his gift to the Yale Law school, and is offered the student who shall write and deliver the best oration in the best manner on graduation day.

Townsend, John Kirk

naturalist, author, was born Aug. 10, 1809, in Philadelphia, Pa. He was a naturalist of Washington; and the author of Journey to the Columbia River, republished in London as Sporting Adventures in the Rocky Mountains. He died Feb. 16, 1851, in Washington, D. C.

Townsend, Linus

author, poet, was born Dec. 25, 1819, near Apollo, Pa. For half a century he has contributed to the periodical press; is the author of a volume entitled Miscellaneous Poems, a work of over three hundred pages; and a Pioneer History, containing historical notes of a district in West Pennsylvania. His poems also appear in Poets of America, and other standard works.

Townsend, N. S

Congressman, was born in England. He settled in Ohio; and was elected a representative in congress from that state from 1851 to 1853.

Townsend, Smith J

physician, surgeon, was born Jan. 16, 1869, in Geneva, Ill. He received his degree of medicine from the medical department of the Western Reserve university of Cleveland, Ohio; and has since attained success in his pro-- fession at Paton, Iowa. He has been health commissioner; medical examiner of various large life insurance companies, and is a prominent member of the leading medical bodies.

Tracewell, Robert J

lawyer, congressman, was born May 7, 1852, in Warren county, Va. He entered his father's law office at Corydon, Ind., and has since remained at Corydon in the practice of the law. He was elected to the fifty-fourth congress as a republican,

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.