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Tracy, Albert Haller – Train, Arthur Savage

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, 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.

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