After being discharged from the U.S. Marine Corps at the close of World War II, Robert Bernard Tracy resumed his civilian life by going back to school to obtain his high school diploma. During this period he wrote his own book of knowledge. This short book of knowledge gives the reader a sense of the wit, cleverness and humor that captured the character of Robert Bernard Tracy. In one page he wrote: "School is another way of teaching the younger generation how to ruin civilization. In time it will succeed." In another page of his book of knowledge he wrote: "High School is a four year...

Known to his family and friends as "Bud," Charles Allen Tracy was the adventurous one in the Tracy family because of his love of flying. Bud was also quite a ladies man and would never marry. Tracy worked as a clerk for the Pellet Magneto Company during the latter half of World War I and by 1920 was working as a driver for the U.S. Auto Supply Company. By 1921 he began working as a clerk for the Chicago Board of Trade, a position he held for the rest of his life. He was of medium height, had grey eyes and had dark brown hair. Like his younger brother, Charles A. Tracy's life would become...

"On Monday, the 11th inst., were deposited in the Dean Cemetery, of Edinburgh, the mortal remains of perhaps the most accomplished anatomist and the most successful teacher of his time. This language cannot be deemed too strong for John Goodsir. By the distinguished colleagues who were the pall-bearers at the mournful ceremony, by the numerous private friends, and by the 200 pupils of the present and past years; who followed their associate and master to his final resting place, it will be reckoned as but inadequately descriptive. The profession and the scientific world at large can...

Two centuries ago Dr. John Goodsir was among the best known men in the East Neuk of Fife. According to the Glasgow Herald Newspaper dated Saturday, 26 December 1868: "Dr. John Goodsir was a well-known and popular man. 'The customs of the period' in which he lived were primitive and curious, and the practice of the healing art in rural district was carried on in pack-saddle fashion and regularity. Dr. Goodsir would start from Largo on Monday, caparisoned for the week with drugs and surgical appliances and not return home till Friday as itinerant with his physic as the ancient Peripatetic with...

"We have today to record the death, at St. Andrews, under peculiarly melancholy circumstances, of the venerable second minister of the Established Church there, the Reverend George Buist, D.D., at the advanced age of eighty-four years...Dr. Buist was one of the oldest ordained ministers of the Church of Scotland...held the rank of Moderator of the Assembly of the Church. He was attentive minister, sincere in the performance of his duties, a thorough business man and his loss will be greatly felt..." Thus ran the front page of the Dundee Advertiser Newspaper for 20 April 1860 giving a small...

For at least 58 years, George Ballingall led a long and distinguished life as tenant farmer of Rameldry, Kettle - an eighteenth century agriculturist of which the Howe of Fife can be proud. Despite personal sadness occasioned by the loss of his first and second wives, George Ballingall will have taken comfort in the raising of his 15 children and would surely be delighted by the continued tenancy of Rameldry by his descendants until 1913. He is commemorated here in grateful esteem and recognition by his Fifth Great Grandson, Michael T. Tracy.

Daniel H. Tracy was the first generation of the Tracy family born on American soil. The son of Irish immigrants, he grew up in Grand Isle, Vermont and the Irish Settlement located in Schuyler Falls, Clinton County, New York. He worked on his father's farm until his marriage when he began farming his own land in Schuyler Falls and later in Saranac, New York. Daniel also worked as a collier on his lands. Daniel and Anna Tracy would raise a large family of 11 children until the death of his wife in October of 1873. Daniel was said to come on hard times and moved west to Chicago, Illinois to work...

William Bernard Tracy was raised on his father's farm at Saranac, Clinton County, New York. At the age of six he would lose his mother, and a few years later, his father remarried and relocated to Kansas. He grew up under the care of his older brothers and sisters. He was rather short and stood 5 feet 4 and 5/8 inches tall, had gray eyes and short light brown hair. Tracy enlisted in the U.S. Army at the age of 20 and served in the last of the American Indian wars of the late 1880s. While in the army he developed a great interest in music and also served as a musician playing the saxophone....

Only 18 miles south of the U.S. border with Canada is the city of Plattsburgh, Clinton County, New York once a major hub in the fur trade with Montreal. This city nestled along the shores of Lake Champlain was first settled in 1785. The Tracy family's ancestry is steeped in the history of this area of upstate New York. For it was here that Daniel and Anna Tracy raised their eleven children in the city and the small farming community of Saranac. Daniel and his sons would farm the lands in Livingston Gore which was situated in the portion of Saranac known as Burnt Hill. To give the reader a...