Biographical Sketch of S. Spencer Tracy, Greene County, Missouri, 
Center Township

>From "History of Greene County, Missouri," St. Louis: Western
Historical Company, 1883.

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Mr. Tracy is the son of Seymour and Ellen (Kelland) Tracy, and was born
in Yates County, New York, July 25, 1844.  His fahter was born in 1804,
and from 1839 to 1879 did an extensive milling and grain business at 
Penn Yan, New York, with a mill of four hundred barrels capacity per
day.  Spencer grew to manhood and was educated in his native county. He
began learning the machinist's trade at the age of sixteen, and in 1862
he went to Springfield, Massachusetts, and worked in the United States
armory.  In 1864, he took a course in Burman's commercial college, 
graduating in 1865.  He was then appointed government inspector, to in-
spect cavalry equipments at Newark, New Jersey, which position he held
until the war closed.  In 1866 he went to Kansas City, Missouri, and 
that fall went to Galva, Illinois, where he clerked in a store for two
years and then went to Van Buren, Arkansas, staying there four years, 
and in 1873, he moved to Greene County, Missouri, where he has since
resided.  He owns a farm of two hundred acres, and is one of the rising
young farmers of the county.  Mr. Tracy was married November 3, 1873,
to Miss Jennie, daughter of Ellis C. and Parthena (Bryant) Powell, of
this county.  By their marriage they have five children, viz.: Maud,
Ellen, Seymour, Clara and Freddie.  Mr. Tracy has been a member of the
A. F. & A. M. society since he was twenty-one years of age.

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