Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1890-02-03
SECRETARY TRACY'S FAMILY.
The Household on Which "a Terrible At
Fiction Has Fallen.

The Tracys are of New England extraction
The great great grandfather of the present
head, one Of the first to shoulder musket in
the cause of independence, fell with Warren
on the sacred soil of Bunker Hill The Catlins,
on the maternal side, are descended from Capt
Daniel Broadhead, who served with Gov
Nichols, in 1864, in the expedition under the
Duke OF York against the Dutch in
America and upon the surrender of their
possessions to the English settled in Ulster
county, NY. This head of a noted American
name belonged to an ancient Yorkshire family
and was in favor with his king. Among his de-
scendants were Daniel Broadhead, brave SOL
der of the revolution, friend of Washington
and member OF the Society of the Cincinnati,
and of later generation John Romeyn Broad
head the scholar and historian, deceased, who
was a cousin of Mrs. Tracy.
In 1853, having commenced successful
career in politics by defeating the democratic
candidate for district attorney in a democratic
county, MIR. Tracy subsequently served in the
legislature, and in 1862 went into the military
service as colonel of the 18th New York volun-
teers, distinguishing himself in the battles Of
the Wilderness and Spottsylvania. Having
been transferred to the command of regiment
OF colored troops, he was stationed near his
home and family while in command of the
rebel prison camp at Elmira. At the close of
the war, having formed partnership with a
New York law firm, MIR. Tracy removed with his
family to that city, making his home in Brook
Ign, but he retained his family seat near his
native town of Owego. This home, known
'Marshand," was noted for its beauty
The prominence of Secretary Tracy in the
professional and political circles of New York
and Brooklyn has always been attended by
equal prominence in the highest walks of the
social life of the great metropolis and its NUM-
cipal offspring, Brooklyn.
OF late years Mrs. Tracy has been quite an
invalid, and therefore relies almost entirely
upon her eldest daughter, Mrs. Wilmerdng
In 1875 Miss Emma Louisa Tracy, while still in
the early years of her maidenhood, married
Ferdinand Suydam Wilmerding. son of VIM. d.
Wilmerding, a scion of the purest blood of the
KnickerbOckers.
The second daughter Of the Secretary of the
Navy, Miss Mary Harrington Tracy was
gifted artist She studied three years at Paris
under the celebrated French painter, Charles
Champlan.
The youngest member Of the family Mr..
Frank Broadhead Tracy. is graduate of Yale
and the Columbia law school.
Secretary Tracy sold his beautiful place ut
"Marshland" soon after he was appointed to a
cabinet position and invested the money re-
allied in the residence here which was de-
stroyed by fire today.
1t required 200 policemen to quiet religious
riot OF Polish women near st. Adelbert's church
! In Buffalo yesterday. Several officers were hit
with missiles and the leading woman rioter was
| badly hurt.
Saturday Joseph Baker, colored boy twelve
years old. living with his parents at Eola a
small Louisiana hamlet, deliberately killed his
brother and baby sister.
Rev. Theodore L. Curley has resigned the
pastorate of the Brooklyn Lafayette Avenue
! church, which he had held thirty years.
In the little village of Putnam, Conn, thirty
five persons are sick with the measles and the
school houses and churches have been closed.
The bodies Of the entombed miners in the
| Nottingham shaft at Wilkesbarre were taken
out Saturday horribly burned. Joseph Jones'
a miner, is SO badly injured he will die. making
the seventh victim. The interior of the mine
i'll the vicinity of the explosion is a wreck.
The shad season has opened at Wilmington,
! N. c., month earlier than usual