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152 years in partnership with his brother William. With great capacity and ability for work he early achieved a front rank at the bar, especially as counsel for several charitable societies. In 1879-82 he was president of the New York association of Yalealumni,and for many years took an active part in the annu- al conventions of the Protest- ant Episcopal church of the diocese of New York. He mar- ried Louisa, daughter of Gen. Joseph Kirk- land, of Utica, N. Y. A fine memorial building in connection with St. George's church, New York city, was completed in 1888 by his son-in-law, John Pier- pont Morgan. Mr. Tracy published "The True and the False," an oration before the * B K society of Yale college (New Haven, 1862), and " Yale Col- lege. Sketches from Memory " (New York, 1880). TRACY, Charles Chapin, missionary, b. in East Smithfield, Pa., 31 Oct., 1838. He was gradu- ated at Williams in 1864 and at Union theological seminary in 1867, was ordained to the ministry of the Presbyterian church, and the same year sailed for Turkey in Asia as a missionary. He labored at Marsova for several years, and was subsequently settled in Constantinople, where he established the first illustrated child's paper that was ever pub- lished in the empire. In 1872 he returned to Mar- sova, where he has since resided, occupying a chair in the theological seminary, and engaging in mis- sionary work. He has published " Letters to Ori- ental Families " (New York, 1874), and translated into Turkish a " Commentary on the Hebrews and Daniel " and Bishop Butler's " Analogy."

TRACY, Joseph, clergyman, b. in Hartford, Vt., 3 Nov., 1794; d. in Beverly, Mass., 24 March, 1874. He was graduated at Dartmouth in 1814, studied divinity, and was pastor of the Congrega- tional churches in West Thetford and West Fair- lee, Vt., from 1821 till 1829. He subsequently edited the " Chronicle " at Windsor, Vt., for five years, and the Boston "Recorder" for one year. He then became secretary of the Massachusetts colonization society, and of the American coloniza- tion society for Massachusetts, which posts he held until his death. The University of Vermont gave him the degree of D. D. in 1859. He was asso- ciated with Prof. Henry B. Smith for several years in the editorship of the " American Theological Review." He published " Three Last Things " (Boston, 1839) ; " The Great Awakening, a History of the Revival of Religion in the Time of Edwards and Whitefield " (New York, 1842) ; " History of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions" (1842); " Refutation of Charges against the Sandwich Island Missionaries " (Boston, 1844) ; and " A Memorial of the Semi-Centennial Anni- versary of the American Colonization Society" (1867). — His brother, Ebenezer Carter, editor, b. in Hartford, Vt., 10 June, 1796; d. in Windsor, Vt., 15 May, 1862, was graduated at Dartmouth in 1819, and at Andover theological seminary in 1822. He edited the " Vermont Chronicle " from 1822 till 1828, and again from 1834 till his death. He was also editorially connected with the New York " Journal of Commerce " and the " Boston Recorder." He published a " Life of Jeremiah Evarts " (Boston, 1845). — Another brother, Ira, missionary, b. in Hartford, Vt., 15 Jan., 1806; d. in Bloomington, Wis., 10 Nov., 1875, was graduated at Dartmouth in 1829, and at Andover theological seminary in 1832, was ordained a missionary in the same year, and held charges in China, Siam, and southern Hindostan from 1832 till 1841, but at the latter date he was compelled to return to this country, owing to the failure of his health. He was subse- quently a financial agent of the American board, and held various Congregational charges in Ohio, Minnesota, and Wisconsin. He contributed many articles to the " Bibliotheca Sacra." and is the au- thor of " Duty to the Heathen " (Boston, 1859).

TRACY, Phineas Lyman, congressman, b. in Norwich, Conn., 25 Dec, 1786 ; d. in Batavia, N. Y., 23 Dec, 1876. His father, Dr. Philemon Tracy, was a physician of Norwich. Phineas was gradu- ated at Yale in 1806, admitted to the bar of Utica, N. Y., in 1811, and in 1813 settled in Batavia, N. Y. He was chosen to congress in 1826 by the anti- Masonic party to fill a vacancy, and served by re- election till 1833, when he declined a renomination. He was a presidential elector in 1840, became first judge of Genesee county in 1841, and held office till 1846, when he retired from professional life. — His brother, Albert Haller, jurist, b. in Nor- wich, Conn., 17 June, 1793 ; d. in Buffalo, N. Y., 12 Sept., 1859, began the study of medicine with his father, but soon abandoned it for the law, was ad- mitted to the bar in 1815, and settled in Buffalo. He rose to a high place in the bar of western New York. At the age of twenty-four Mr. Tracy was elected a representative to the 16th congress, but he reached his twenty-fifth birthday anniversary be- fore the assembling of congress on 6 Dec, 1819, and was thereby not excluded by the constitutional limit as to age. He was returned to the 17th and 18th congresses, and gained a reputation during his term of six years' service. In 1830 Mr. Tracy was chosen state senator, serving eight years. That body was then the court of errors. Exercising the functions of a court of last resort, and as a member of this court, Mr. Tracy achieved his greatest dis- tinction. He was one of the ablest lawyers of the senate, and his opinions and decisions have been standard authority upon questions that were liti- gated then. Mr. Tracy was a candidate for U. S. senator in the famous election of 1839. After this contest he retired from public life.

TRACY, Roger Sherman, sanitarian, b. in Windsor, Vt., 9 Dec, 1841. He was graduated at Yale in 1862, and, after teaching for five years, took his medical degree at the College of physicians and surgeons of Columbia in 1868. For over a year he was house physician at Bellevue hospital, and in 1869 he was made inspector of prisons and hospitals for the department of charities and corrections in New York city. He was appointed sanitary inspector in the health department in 1870, became chief of the corps in July, 1887, and in October of the same year registrar of vital statistics. Dr. Tracy has contributed numerous articles on sanitary science to " The Popular Science Monthly." the " New York Medical Journal," and similar periodicals ; also the articles on " Public Nuisances," " Hygiene of Occupation," and " Village Sanitary Associations " to Albert H. Buck's " Hygiene" (New York, 1879), and he is the author of " The New Liber Primus " (Boston, 1858), the " Appendix on Hygiene " in the " Primer of Physiology "