Statewide County HI Archives Biographies.....Tracy, Clifton Howard July 12, 1876 - 
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Source: The Story of Hawaii and Its Builders, Honolulu Star Bulletin, Ltd. Territory of Hawaii, 1925
Author: Edited by George F. Nellist

CLIFTON HOWARD TRACY, Lawyer. After spending sixteen years in various 
capacities in Hilo and Honolulu, chief of which was as sanitary officer for 
the territorial Board of Health from 1900 to 1904, during the second bubonic 
plague epidemic, Clifton H. Tracy decided upon a legal career and entered Yale 
Law School in 1916. Upon his graduation in 1919 with the degree of LL.B., he 
returned to Honolulu and became associated with the law firm of Frear, 
Prosser, Anderson & Marx.
  Mr. Tracy’s most notable public service in Hawaii was given as chief 
sanitary officer. He also served as chief building inspector in the rebuilding 
of Chinatown after the big plague fire. For the next three years he was a 
conductor on the Oahu Railway and from 1907 to 1911 he managed the cattle 
ranches, city and other properties of the Dowsett Co., Ltd., for the Hawaiian 
Trust Co., Ltd. In 1911 he was assistant to the superintendent of the Hilo 
railway, and the following year he returned to Honolulu and managed two 
laundry companies until he left Hawaii to study law.
  Having specialized, in his legal work, in land and probate matters, Mr. 
Tracy was appointed an examiner of the land court, one of five persons who act 
for the court in the investigation of title of applicants for the registration 
of land.
  He played a part in the overthrow of the Hawaiian Monarchy in 1893, acting 
as an aide to Colonel J. H. Soper, commander-in-chief of the revolutionary 
forces that actually brought about the overthrow of Queen Liliuokalani. He 
served during the rebellion of 1895 as a member of Company B, National Guard 
of Hawaii, and for some years was a leader in National Guard affairs as a 
first lieutenant and adjutant of the 1st battalion and afterwards joining the 
sharpshooter company.
  Religious and athletic interests have claimed Mr. Tracy’s attention, and for 
some years he was a director of the Y.M.C.A., treasurer of Central Union 
Church, and superintendent of the Sunday School. During his younger student 
days at Oahu College he was champion hammer thrower of the islands for three 
years, champion bicycle rider in 1896, captain-elect of the Oahu College 
football team, and at the University of California, which he attended for two 
years, he was stroke oar of the U. C. crew, winning the Pacific Coast 
championship, and a member of the U. C. rifle team that twice won the 
championship of the United States. He was also a sprinter, high jumper, pole 
vaulter and a member of the Healani junior crew.
  Born in Wichita, Kansas, on July 12, 1876, Mr. Tracy is the son of James M. 
Tracy, Kansas pioneer and former well known Honolulu clothier, and Laura E. 
(Davis) Tracy. With his parents he came to Honolulu when a boy of 13. In 1910 
he married Thora Oss, who was born on the island of Niihau, and they have 
three children, James Clifton, Thora Laura and Nathan Howard Tracy. Mr. Tracy 
is a 32nd degree Mason, a member of the Delta Upsilon fraternity, at the 
University of California, the Phi Delta Phi (legal) fraternity at Yale 
University, and the Bar Association of Hawaii.


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