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 TRACY

TRAIN

ittorney for eastern New York, 1SG5-73; resumed the practice of law in Brooklyn, N.Y., in the latter year; was associate justice of the New York court of appeals, 1881-82; candidate for the iistrict-attorneyship of King's county, 18SG, and .-^L'cretary of the navy in President Harrison's cabinet, 1889-93. While holding the latter posi- tion, his residence in ^Vashington was burned, and his wife and daughter perished in the flames. He continued practice in New York city after 1893; w:is president of the commission which drafted the new charter for Greater New York, and the unsuccessful Republican candidate for mayor of Greater Ni-w York in 1897.

TRACY, Charles Chapin, missionary and edu- cator, was born in East Smithfield, Pa., Oct.
 * i, 1838; son of Orramel and Cynthia (Kellogg)

Tracy; grandson of Nehemiah and Lucy (01m- -U'd) Tracy and of Samuel and Sarah (Rogers) ivellogg. and a descendant of the de Tracis in I'.nglish history of Norman French ancestry, and ■n the Rogers-Kellogg side, of the martyr of Smithfield. His first ancestor in America, Lieut. ThonKis Tracy, of Norwich, Conn., settled there in 1640. He was graduated at Williams college, A.B., 1864, A.M., 1867, and at Union Theological seminary, S.T.B. in 1867: and was ordained by the third New York presbytery in July of the same year. He was married, Aug. 14, 1867, to Mvra A., daughter of Chester and Lemira (Fish) Park of Athens, Pa., and went as a missionary to Marsovan, Turkey-in-Asia. In 1870 he removed to Constantinople, and two years later returned to Marsovan, where he remained until 1875, when a serious illness obliged him to return to Amer- ica In 1878 he resumed his labors in Marsovan, being elected president of Anatolia college, Marsovan, in 18S6, to the development of which institution his principal effort was devoted. He received the degree of D.D. from Williams col- lege in 1894. He wrote a Commentary on the Hehrexos and is the author of: Letters to Oriental Families (1872); Myra, or a Child's Story of Missionary Life (187G); Talks on a Verandah in a Far-cm-ny Land (1893).

TRACY, Uriah, senator, was born in Franklin, Conn., Feb. 2, IB-w. He was graduated from Yale, A.B., 1778, A.M., 1781; was admitted to the bar in the latter year, and began practice in Litchfield, Conn. He was a representative in the state legislature, 1788-93, serving as speaker, 1793, and was a Federalist representative from Connecticut in the 3d and 4th congresses, serving from Dec. 2. 1793. to Dec. 6, 1796, when he was elected U.S. senator to complete the unexpired tf-rm of Jonathan Trumbull, resigned, officiating for a short time as president pro tern, of the sen- ate and serving until his death, when he was succeeded by Samuel Whittlesey Dana. His three

daughters married, respectively. Judge Gould of Litchfield, Judge Howe of Northampton, Mass.. antl Judge IMetcalfe of Dedliam. Mass. Senator Tracy served at one time as major-general of militia. His was the first body buried in the congressional burying-ground, Washington, D.C., in which city he died, July 19, 1^*07.

TRAIN, Elizabeth Phipps, author, was born in Dorchester,:Mass., Sept. 1, ISoG; daughter of William Graham and Mary Elizabeth (Phipps) Train; granddaugliter of Samuel and Hannah Putnam (Flint) Train and of William and Eliza- beth Vinton (Staniford) Phipps. She removed to Roxbury, Mass., where she attended the common schools, 1866-70, and she was a student at Wells college, Aurora, N.Y., 1870-72. Her early liter- ary work includes the following tran.slations from the French; Tlce AjMstate (ISSd); The Shadow of Roger Laroqne (1890); The Court of the Tuile- ries (1891). She isalso the author of: Dr. Lamar (1891); The Autobiography of a Professional Beauty (1895); A Social Highwayman (1895); A Marital Liability (1895); A Queen of Hearts (1897); Madam of the Ivies (1897). She was liv- ing in Duxbury, Mass., in 1903.

TRAIN, George Francis, author, was born in Boston, Mass., March 24, 1829; son of Oliver and Maria (Pickering) Train; grandson of the Rev. George Pickering, a slave owner and Methodist preacher of Baltimore, Md. (who married Miss Bemis, daughter of a well-to-do farmer of Waltham, Mass., and subsequent]}' resided on the Bemis farm); and a descendant of the Pickerings of Vir- ginia, South Caro- lina and Maryland. George Francis Train was taken to New Orleans, La., in 1833, and after the death of his mother and three sisters from yello%v fever, in 1833, he was sent by his father to Waltham, Mass., and given over to the care of his maternal grandmother. His father probably became a victim of the fever soon after, but the son never ascertained the time or place of his death. He attended school, 1840-43; was a farmer until 1843; gro- cer's clerk, 1843-44; employed in the grocery business, Cambridge, Mass., 1844-45; as a ship- ping clerk by the firm of Enoch Train & Co., 37 Lewis Wharf, Boston, Mass., 1845-47; as man- ager of the same, 1847-50; was sent to Liverpool as agent of the firm, and was a member of that