Edward TRACY
- Born: Cir 1825, New York, USA
- Died: 1897, Bermuda aged about 72
General Notes:
Edward Tracy was the founder of the big malt house in Lansingburgh, said to be one of the largest in the country.
Probate: The sun., May 22, 1898, 1, Page 10, Image 10: http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83030272/1898-05-22/ed-1/seq-10/#words=Cagger
http://blog.timesunion.com/rittner/millionaires-flourished-in-the-capital-district-during-19th-century/3740/
Edward Tracy
Malting, brewing and real estate investments.
NOTE: Sued the Troy and Lansingburgh Railroad Company to prevent them from erecting poles for an electric motor system on a street in Lansingburgh opposite his property. Won an temporary injection but was vacated. He was as a director of the United National Bank in 1890. Owned the Tracy & Russell Brewing Company in NYC in 1864. He was a well known bachelor to his friends and associates in Lansingburgh until his "wife" sued his estate after death claiming otherwise. It appears she did not win.
In 1904 when his sister Sara died in NYC, she left an estate worth $6 million for various charities. Edward left her his fortune when he died and she moved to the city after. He was considered the richest man in Lansingburgh. She even left Edward's coachman $1000. There is a Sara Tracy Hall at the Wheeling Jesuit University in West Virginia. Her contributions created the college.
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