Tracy
Tracy names 2 different subjects across the 6 encyclopedias on this shelf. Each is set out below.
Tracy BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, an American lawyer
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, an American lawyer; born in Oswego, N. Y., April 26, 1830; 1830; was admitted to the 185 bar in 1851; served as district attorney of Tioga co. in 1853-1854; and was a member of the New York Legislature in 1861-1862. He raised the 109th and 137th Regiments of New York volunteers in July and August, 1862; took a distinguished part in the operations at the front in 1862-1865, and in the latter year was promoted Brigadier-General of volunteers for gallantry in battle. He was United States district attorney for the Eastern District of New York in 1866- 1873; judge of the Court of Appeals in 1881-1882; Secretary of the Navy in the cabinet of President Harrison in 1889- 1893; president of the commission which drafted the charter for Greater New York in 1895-1896; and unsuccessful candidate for mayor under the new charter in 1897. He died in 1915.
Tracy LOUIS, an English author
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
LOUIS, an English author, born at Liverpool, in 1863. He was cated privately in Yorkshire and France, and began journalism on Northern Cardiff. He Echo went, Darlington to, and then Allahabad, India, in vail. 1889, returned to England in 1893, and helped T. P. O'Connor to start "The Sun" newspaper in London. He then traveled in the United States and India, and when the war broke out became Commandant of the Whitby District Volunteers. He came with the British War Mission to the United States in 1917, and had charge of a British propaganda bureau in New York. His works include: "The Final War"; "The Postmaster's Daughter"; "The Revellers."
What Has Changed in the Last Century
Both men were near the end of their stories when Collier's wrote in 1921. Benjamin Franklin Tracy, dead six years by then, is remembered today chiefly for what the entry passes over in a phrase: as Harrison's Secretary of the Navy he pushed through the Naval Act of 1890 authorizing the first modern seagoing battleships, and historians now routinely call him a father of the modern U.S. Navy; he had also received the Medal of Honor in 1895 for the Wilderness in 1864, which Collier's does not mention. Louis Tracy, still alive and writing when the entry appeared, died in New York in 1928; his invasion fantasy "The Final War" (1896) is now read mainly as a specimen of pre-1914 future-war fiction, and much of his large output, including the detective novels he wrote as "Gordon Holmes," has slipped out of print. Otherwise the facts as set down here still stand.
Written for this edition, 2026.