BIO: Charles Russell GRACEY, Huntingdon County, PA Contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by Dave Wilson Copyright 2006. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/pa/pafiles.htm ************************************************************** __________________________________________________________ McElroy, James Thomas Jr., McElroy's Family Memories, Huntingdon, PA: (Author), 1930, page 72. __________________________________________________________ CHARLES RUSSELL GRACEY Mount Union, Pa. Secretary, Borough Mount Union, and Secretary, Water Commission: He was born in Clay Township, October 26, 1888, and began his preliminary education in the common schools of Taylor Township, Fulton County, Pa. Remained on the farm until twenty-three years of age. In the Normal School at Harrisonville; also at McConnellsburg, Pa. Eastman Business College called him and he graduated in 1915. He taught school four years in Taylor Township, Fulton County, Pa., and one year in Shirley Township, Huntingdon County, Pa. Was with the Aetna Explosive Company for three years and eight months. Charles Gracey is the son of Samuel C. Gracey, who was married to Hannah J. Bratton; they reside in Mount Union, Pa. The Graceys trace their ancestry back to about ninety-four years; of Irish extraction. Mr. Charles Gracey has served for eight years as Inspector and Clerk on election board. Belongs to the Masonic fraternity, 688, and I.O.O.F. 677, Mount Union, Pa. He has two brothers, William Jennings Bryan Gracey, named after the great Commoner, William; is Assistant Field Supervisor, with Aetna Explosive Company, headquarters at Hartford, Connecticut; Richard Alton, Huntingdon, Pa., with Prudential Insurance Company. Sisters are: Estella, wife of Fred Tennant, Altoona, Pa.; Gladys J., wife of Carson Jones, of Mount Union, Pa.; Addie M., married to Wm. Lane, of Mount Union, Pa.; Nellie B., wife of Frank Yeager, of Akron, Ohio; Louise, a student at Juniata College, at home, and one sister, deceased. Mr. Gracey is a Democrat of a most pronounced type. He ws married to Jane A. Cromer, of Fort Littleton, Fulton County. One daughter, Henrietta L., nine years, attending school, and Wayne Cromer, aged three years. As Secretary of the Mount Union Borough and the Water Commission he has rendered valuable service and pays attention to these offices in an efficient manner.