Son of Ebenezer Carter and Martha Sherman (Evarts) Tracy. During the Civil War he was an inspector of prisons and hospitals. He was also a writer and had several articles appearing in Popular Science Monthly, including, "The Problem of Municipal Nuisances," in Popular Science Monthly Volume 18, March 1881 and "The Essentials of Anatomy, Physiology, and Hygiene".
His Yale obituary provided by Find A Grave member, Cheryl Cartwright:
Roger Sherman Tracy, B,A. 1862.
Born December 9, 1841, in Windsor, Vt.
Died March 6, 1926, in Ballardvale, Mass
Father, the Rev Ebenezer Carter Tracy (B.A. Dartmouth 1819); studied at Andover Theological Seminary; editor and publisher of Vermont Chronicle for over thirty years; son of Joseph and Ruth (Carter) Tracy; sixth in direct descent from Stephen Tracy, who came from England to Plymouth, Mass.,in 1623 and later settled in Duxbury, Mass.
Mother, Martha Sherman (Evarts) Tracy; daughter of Jeremiah Evarts (B.A. 1802) and Mehitabel (Sherman) Evarts; sister of John Jay Evarts (B A. 1832) and William Maxwell Evarts (B A. 1837); sister-in-law of the Rev. David Greene (B A. 1821); granddaughter of Roger Sherman (honorary M A. 1768), a signer of the Declaration of Independence, a member of the Continental Congress and of the Constitutional Convention, and treasurer of Yale College 176 5-1776; great-granddaughter of Timothy Todd (B.A. 1747); descendant of John Evarts, who came to this country during the first half of the seventeenth century and settled in New England.
Yale relatives include: J. Evarts Tracy, '57 L. (brother); Howard C. Tracy, '87, Evarts Tracy, '90, Robert S. Tracy, '93, and William E. Tracy, 'oo (nephews); and Charles B Evarts, ex-'66, Allen W. Evarts, '69, William Evarts, ex-71, Sherman Evarts, '81, Maxwell Evarts, '84, Jeremiah M and Roger S. Evarts, both '17, Effingham C. Evarts, '19, and Prescott Evarts, £#-'23 (cousins).
Windsor High School. High oration appointments Junior and Senior years; member Phi Beta Kappa. Taught at Peekskill (N. Y.) Military Academy 1862-64; studied medicine at College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia, 1864-67 (M.D. 1868); connected with Bellevue Hospital, New York City, as junior and senior assistant and house surgeon 1867-69; spent the next year abroad, during most of the time studying in Berlin; practiced medicine in New York City 1870-73; then obliged, to give up practice because of increasing deafness; member New York Board of Health 1870-1901 (deputy registrar and registrar of records 1870-1901; also assistant sanitary inspector 1870-73, sanitary inspector 1873-1887, and chief sanitary inspector 1887); retired from public service in 1901, but for some time kept his room at the Department of Health, where he did much of his writing; in 1904 bought a farm in Winsted, Conn., where he lived two years; had since resided at Ballardvale; author: Handbook of Sanitary Information for Householders (1884); 'the Essentials of Anatomy, Physiology, and Hygiene (1884); Outlines of Anatomy, Physiology, and Hygiene (1889), The White Man's Burden (under nom deplume of T. Shirby Hodge; 1915); monographs on vital statistics for Wood's Reference Handbook of the Medical Sciences (1893) and on sanitary subjects for the Annual Reports of the New York Health Department; contributed articles to the appendix of the American edition of Parke's Hygiene^ to Michael Foster's Primer of Physiology, one of the series of Science Primers edited by Huxley, Roscoe & Balfour Stewart (1883), to Buck's Hygiene and Public Health, and to the Popular Science Monthly and the Century; affiliated with the Congregational Church.
Unmarried Death due to chronic myocarditis. Buried in Old South Cemetery, Windsor Survived by a sister, Mrs. George P. Byington, of Ballardvale.
His Yale obituary provided by Find A Grave member, Cheryl Cartwright:
Roger Sherman Tracy, B,A. 1862.
Born December 9, 1841, in Windsor, Vt.
Died March 6, 1926, in Ballardvale, Mass
Father, the Rev Ebenezer Carter Tracy (B.A. Dartmouth 1819); studied at Andover Theological Seminary; editor and publisher of Vermont Chronicle for over thirty years; son of Joseph and Ruth (Carter) Tracy; sixth in direct descent from Stephen Tracy, who came from England to Plymouth, Mass.,in 1623 and later settled in Duxbury, Mass.
Mother, Martha Sherman (Evarts) Tracy; daughter of Jeremiah Evarts (B.A. 1802) and Mehitabel (Sherman) Evarts; sister of John Jay Evarts (B A. 1832) and William Maxwell Evarts (B A. 1837); sister-in-law of the Rev. David Greene (B A. 1821); granddaughter of Roger Sherman (honorary M A. 1768), a signer of the Declaration of Independence, a member of the Continental Congress and of the Constitutional Convention, and treasurer of Yale College 176 5-1776; great-granddaughter of Timothy Todd (B.A. 1747); descendant of John Evarts, who came to this country during the first half of the seventeenth century and settled in New England.
Yale relatives include: J. Evarts Tracy, '57 L. (brother); Howard C. Tracy, '87, Evarts Tracy, '90, Robert S. Tracy, '93, and William E. Tracy, 'oo (nephews); and Charles B Evarts, ex-'66, Allen W. Evarts, '69, William Evarts, ex-71, Sherman Evarts, '81, Maxwell Evarts, '84, Jeremiah M and Roger S. Evarts, both '17, Effingham C. Evarts, '19, and Prescott Evarts, £#-'23 (cousins).
Windsor High School. High oration appointments Junior and Senior years; member Phi Beta Kappa. Taught at Peekskill (N. Y.) Military Academy 1862-64; studied medicine at College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia, 1864-67 (M.D. 1868); connected with Bellevue Hospital, New York City, as junior and senior assistant and house surgeon 1867-69; spent the next year abroad, during most of the time studying in Berlin; practiced medicine in New York City 1870-73; then obliged, to give up practice because of increasing deafness; member New York Board of Health 1870-1901 (deputy registrar and registrar of records 1870-1901; also assistant sanitary inspector 1870-73, sanitary inspector 1873-1887, and chief sanitary inspector 1887); retired from public service in 1901, but for some time kept his room at the Department of Health, where he did much of his writing; in 1904 bought a farm in Winsted, Conn., where he lived two years; had since resided at Ballardvale; author: Handbook of Sanitary Information for Householders (1884); 'the Essentials of Anatomy, Physiology, and Hygiene (1884); Outlines of Anatomy, Physiology, and Hygiene (1889), The White Man's Burden (under nom deplume of T. Shirby Hodge; 1915); monographs on vital statistics for Wood's Reference Handbook of the Medical Sciences (1893) and on sanitary subjects for the Annual Reports of the New York Health Department; contributed articles to the appendix of the American edition of Parke's Hygiene^ to Michael Foster's Primer of Physiology, one of the series of Science Primers edited by Huxley, Roscoe & Balfour Stewart (1883), to Buck's Hygiene and Public Health, and to the Popular Science Monthly and the Century; affiliated with the Congregational Church.
Unmarried Death due to chronic myocarditis. Buried in Old South Cemetery, Windsor Survived by a sister, Mrs. George P. Byington, of Ballardvale.
Son of Ebenezer Carter and Martha Sherman (Evarts) Tracy. During the Civil War he was an inspector of prisons and hospitals. He was also a writer and had several articles appearing in Popular Science Monthly, including, "The Problem of Municipal Nuisances," in Popular Science Monthly Volume 18, March 1881 and "The Essentials of Anatomy, Physiology, and Hygiene".
His Yale obituary provided by Find A Grave member, Cheryl Cartwright:
Roger Sherman Tracy, B,A. 1862.
Born December 9, 1841, in Windsor, Vt.
Died March 6, 1926, in Ballardvale, Mass
Father, the Rev Ebenezer Carter Tracy (B.A. Dartmouth 1819); studied at Andover Theological Seminary; editor and publisher of Vermont Chronicle for over thirty years; son of Joseph and Ruth (Carter) Tracy; sixth in direct descent from Stephen Tracy, who came from England to Plymouth, Mass.,in 1623 and later settled in Duxbury, Mass.
Mother, Martha Sherman (Evarts) Tracy; daughter of Jeremiah Evarts (B.A. 1802) and Mehitabel (Sherman) Evarts; sister of John Jay Evarts (B A. 1832) and William Maxwell Evarts (B A. 1837); sister-in-law of the Rev. David Greene (B A. 1821); granddaughter of Roger Sherman (honorary M A. 1768), a signer of the Declaration of Independence, a member of the Continental Congress and of the Constitutional Convention, and treasurer of Yale College 176 5-1776; great-granddaughter of Timothy Todd (B.A. 1747); descendant of John Evarts, who came to this country during the first half of the seventeenth century and settled in New England.
Yale relatives include: J. Evarts Tracy, '57 L. (brother); Howard C. Tracy, '87, Evarts Tracy, '90, Robert S. Tracy, '93, and William E. Tracy, 'oo (nephews); and Charles B Evarts, ex-'66, Allen W. Evarts, '69, William Evarts, ex-71, Sherman Evarts, '81, Maxwell Evarts, '84, Jeremiah M and Roger S. Evarts, both '17, Effingham C. Evarts, '19, and Prescott Evarts, £#-'23 (cousins).
Windsor High School. High oration appointments Junior and Senior years; member Phi Beta Kappa. Taught at Peekskill (N. Y.) Military Academy 1862-64; studied medicine at College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia, 1864-67 (M.D. 1868); connected with Bellevue Hospital, New York City, as junior and senior assistant and house surgeon 1867-69; spent the next year abroad, during most of the time studying in Berlin; practiced medicine in New York City 1870-73; then obliged, to give up practice because of increasing deafness; member New York Board of Health 1870-1901 (deputy registrar and registrar of records 1870-1901; also assistant sanitary inspector 1870-73, sanitary inspector 1873-1887, and chief sanitary inspector 1887); retired from public service in 1901, but for some time kept his room at the Department of Health, where he did much of his writing; in 1904 bought a farm in Winsted, Conn., where he lived two years; had since resided at Ballardvale; author: Handbook of Sanitary Information for Householders (1884); 'the Essentials of Anatomy, Physiology, and Hygiene (1884); Outlines of Anatomy, Physiology, and Hygiene (1889), The White Man's Burden (under nom deplume of T. Shirby Hodge; 1915); monographs on vital statistics for Wood's Reference Handbook of the Medical Sciences (1893) and on sanitary subjects for the Annual Reports of the New York Health Department; contributed articles to the appendix of the American edition of Parke's Hygiene^ to Michael Foster's Primer of Physiology, one of the series of Science Primers edited by Huxley, Roscoe & Balfour Stewart (1883), to Buck's Hygiene and Public Health, and to the Popular Science Monthly and the Century; affiliated with the Congregational Church.
Unmarried Death due to chronic myocarditis. Buried in Old South Cemetery, Windsor Survived by a sister, Mrs. George P. Byington, of Ballardvale.
His Yale obituary provided by Find A Grave member, Cheryl Cartwright:
Roger Sherman Tracy, B,A. 1862.
Born December 9, 1841, in Windsor, Vt.
Died March 6, 1926, in Ballardvale, Mass
Father, the Rev Ebenezer Carter Tracy (B.A. Dartmouth 1819); studied at Andover Theological Seminary; editor and publisher of Vermont Chronicle for over thirty years; son of Joseph and Ruth (Carter) Tracy; sixth in direct descent from Stephen Tracy, who came from England to Plymouth, Mass.,in 1623 and later settled in Duxbury, Mass.
Mother, Martha Sherman (Evarts) Tracy; daughter of Jeremiah Evarts (B.A. 1802) and Mehitabel (Sherman) Evarts; sister of John Jay Evarts (B A. 1832) and William Maxwell Evarts (B A. 1837); sister-in-law of the Rev. David Greene (B A. 1821); granddaughter of Roger Sherman (honorary M A. 1768), a signer of the Declaration of Independence, a member of the Continental Congress and of the Constitutional Convention, and treasurer of Yale College 176 5-1776; great-granddaughter of Timothy Todd (B.A. 1747); descendant of John Evarts, who came to this country during the first half of the seventeenth century and settled in New England.
Yale relatives include: J. Evarts Tracy, '57 L. (brother); Howard C. Tracy, '87, Evarts Tracy, '90, Robert S. Tracy, '93, and William E. Tracy, 'oo (nephews); and Charles B Evarts, ex-'66, Allen W. Evarts, '69, William Evarts, ex-71, Sherman Evarts, '81, Maxwell Evarts, '84, Jeremiah M and Roger S. Evarts, both '17, Effingham C. Evarts, '19, and Prescott Evarts, £#-'23 (cousins).
Windsor High School. High oration appointments Junior and Senior years; member Phi Beta Kappa. Taught at Peekskill (N. Y.) Military Academy 1862-64; studied medicine at College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia, 1864-67 (M.D. 1868); connected with Bellevue Hospital, New York City, as junior and senior assistant and house surgeon 1867-69; spent the next year abroad, during most of the time studying in Berlin; practiced medicine in New York City 1870-73; then obliged, to give up practice because of increasing deafness; member New York Board of Health 1870-1901 (deputy registrar and registrar of records 1870-1901; also assistant sanitary inspector 1870-73, sanitary inspector 1873-1887, and chief sanitary inspector 1887); retired from public service in 1901, but for some time kept his room at the Department of Health, where he did much of his writing; in 1904 bought a farm in Winsted, Conn., where he lived two years; had since resided at Ballardvale; author: Handbook of Sanitary Information for Householders (1884); 'the Essentials of Anatomy, Physiology, and Hygiene (1884); Outlines of Anatomy, Physiology, and Hygiene (1889), The White Man's Burden (under nom deplume of T. Shirby Hodge; 1915); monographs on vital statistics for Wood's Reference Handbook of the Medical Sciences (1893) and on sanitary subjects for the Annual Reports of the New York Health Department; contributed articles to the appendix of the American edition of Parke's Hygiene^ to Michael Foster's Primer of Physiology, one of the series of Science Primers edited by Huxley, Roscoe & Balfour Stewart (1883), to Buck's Hygiene and Public Health, and to the Popular Science Monthly and the Century; affiliated with the Congregational Church.
Unmarried Death due to chronic myocarditis. Buried in Old South Cemetery, Windsor Survived by a sister, Mrs. George P. Byington, of Ballardvale.
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