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TRACY, Charles, lawyer, born in Whitestown, Oneida County, New York, 17 February, 1810; died in New York city, 1 June, 1885. He was graduated at Yale in 1832, admitted to the bar in 1835, and passed his earlier professional life in Utica, New York He removed to New York city in 1849, and continued in active practice there until his death, and for many 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 Yale alumni, and for many years took an active part in the annual conventions of the Protestant Episcopal church of the diocese of New York. He married Louisa, daughter of General Joseph Kirkland, of Utica, New York. A fine memorial building in connection with St. George's church, New York city, was completed in 1888 by his son-in-law, John Pierpont Morgan. Mr. Tracy published "The True and the False," an oration before the + B K society of Yale college (New Haven, 1862), and "Yale College, Sketches from Memory" (New York, 1880).
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