Shaver, F. A., Arthur P. Rose, R. F. Steele, and A. E. Adams, compilers.  "An
Illustrated History of Central Oregon." ("Embracing Wasco, Sherman, Gilliam,
Wheeler, Crook, Lake, & Klamath Counties")  Spokane, WA: Western Historical
Publishing Co., 1905.  p. 886.
 
WALTER D. TRACY

     is a farmer and dairyman residing twenty miles west from Lakeview,  Oregon,
on one of the most valuable tracts of land in that locality. He has in all five
hundred and sixty acres of land, about one-half of which is natural meadow and
under irrigation, producing an abundance of feed for his large herd of dairy
stock. All of his land is well improved and under fence.
     Mr. Tracy is a native of Clayton county, Iowa, born November 21, 1864, the
son of John S. and Malissa (Baker) Tracy, the former a native of Illinois and
the latter of New York. John S. Tracy was an early pioneer of Clayton county,
Iowa, and came to California in 1876, settling in Shasta county, where he still
lives at the age of  sixty-four years. His father, James Tracy, came from
Ireland to Illinois and died in Iowa at about the age of eighty years. The
mother of Walter D. Tracy removed in early life with her parents to Iowa, where
she was married. She came west with her husband and died in Shasta county,
California twenty-two years ago.
     The brothers and sisters of Mr. Tracy are, Charles C., Mrs. Clara Tooney,
John Q., and Ernest F., all residents of Sacramento, California.
     Mr. Tracy came west with his parents and grew to manhood on a farm. In the
spring of 1884 he came to Silver Lake, Oregon, where he obtained work for a
short time, after which he took a homestead and preemption in Drew's valley and
engaged in improving his land and raising stock. This land he sold in 1897, when
he purchased his present farm.  On November 17, 1886, Mr. Tracy was married to
Miss Nannie Barker, a native of Shasta county, which union has been blessed with
five children, Lawrence E., Joe E., Agnes E., Douglas O. and Roy A.   Mrs. Tracy
was a daughter of George and Mary Barker, who came via Panama to Shasta county
in very early days. Her grandparents were about the first who crossed the plains
with an ox team and settled in Shasta county, where both they and Mrs. Tracy's
parents since have died.
     In fraternity life Walter D. Tracy is associated with the Woodmen of the
World and is a member of Lakeview lodge. No. 63, I. 0. 0. F. Both he and Mrs.
Tracy are members of the Rebekah degree of Oddfellowship and Mrs. Tracy belongs
to the Women of Woodcraft.
     Mr. Tracy deserves great credit for his present high standing among his
social and business associates, as he started in life in his present locality
with hardly a dollar to his name. He is a man of pluck and energy, honor and
integrity, qualities which have won him a place in the confidence and esteem of
a wide circle of friends.


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Submitted to the Oregon Bios. Project in March 2011 by Diana Smith.  Submitter
has no additional information about the person(s) or family mentioned above.