Tracy Beadle

Dr. Tracy Beadle (November 21, 1808 – March 22, 1877) was an American druggist, banker, and politician from Elmira, New York.

Life

Beadle was born on November 21, 1808, in Otsego, New York,{{Cite book |url=https://www.google.com/books/edition/History_of_Tioga_Chemung_Tompkins_and_Sc/rKsQAQAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=%22Dr.%20Tracy%20Beadle%22 |title=History of Tioga, Chemung, Tompkins and Schuyler Counties, New York |publisher=Everts & Ensign |year=1879 |location=Philadelphia, P.A. |pages=287 |language=en |via=Google Books}} the son of Henry and Susan Beadle.{{Cite book |last=Beadle |first=Walter J. |url=https://archive.org/details/samuelbeadlefami00bead/page/746/mode/2up?view=theater |title=Samuel Beadle Family: History and Genealogy of Descendents of Samuel Beadle, planter, Who Lived in Charlestown, Massachusetts, in 1656 and Died in Salem, Massachusetts, in 1664 |year=1970 |pages=747–748 |language=en |via=Internet Archive}}

Beadle grew up in Cooperstown. He studied medicine with Dr. Mitchell of Norwich and his uncle Dr. Chauncey Beadle of St. Catharines, Canada and graduated from Pittsfield, Massachusetts. In 1831, he became a member of the Otsego County Medical Society{{Cite book |url=https://www.google.com/books/edition/History_of_Otsego_County_New_York/kCJEAQAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=Tracy%20Beadle |title=History of Otsego County, New York |publisher=Everts & Fariss |year=1878 |location=Philadelphia, P.A. |pages=36 |language=en |via=Google Books}} and formed a partnership as physicians and apothecaries with Erastus Curtiss under the firm name Curtiss & Beadle. They had a brick store in Cooperstown.{{Cite news |date=31 January 1831 |title=COPARTNERSHIP FORMED |url=https://www.nyshistoricnewspapers.org/?a=d&d=toc18310131-01.1.3&e=-------en-20--1--txt-txIN---------- |work=The Tocsin |location=Cooperstown, N.Y. |page=3 |via=NYS Historic Newspapers |volume=II |issue=36}} The partnership dissolved in 1833.{{Cite news |date=30 December 1833 |title=DISSOLUTION |url=https://www.nyshistoricnewspapers.org/?a=d&d=otr18331230-01.1.3&e=-------en-20--1--txt-txIN---------- |work=The Otsego Republican |location=Cooperstown, N.Y. |page=3 |via=NYS Historic Newspapers |volume=V |issue=32}} He also began running the Green Store with Elias Root in 1832,{{Cite news |date=8 October 1832 |title=New Goods, The Green Store |url=https://www.nyshistoricnewspapers.org/?a=d&d=frja18321008-01.1.3&e=-------en-20--1--txt-txIN---------- |work=Freeman's Journal |location=Cooperstown, N.Y. |page=3 |via=NYS Historic Newspapers |volume=25 |issue=4}} although that partnership dissolved in 1834.{{Cite news |date=21 April 1834 |title=Dissolution |url=https://www.nyshistoricnewspapers.org/?a=d&d=otr18340421-01.1.3&e=-------en-20--1--txt-txIN---------- |work=The Otsego Republican |location=Cooperstown, N.Y. |page=3 |via=NYS Historic Newspapers |volume=V |issue=48}}

In 1835, Beadle moved to Elmira and opened a drug store there. In 1849, he and Simeon Benjamin organized the Bank of Chemung. Around that time, he and Captain Samuel Partridge bought 400 acres of land known as the Robert Covell farm in Southport. This land became the Fifth Ward of Elmira. In 1855, he was the Republican candidate for the New York State Senate in New York's 26th State Senate district.{{Cite news |date=18 October 1855 |title=New York Senatorial Nominations |url=https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83030313/1855-10-18/ed-1/seq-4/ |work=New York Herald |pages=4 |edition=Morning |via=Chronicling America |issue=6990}} He was an alternate delegate to the 1856 Republican National Convention.{{Cite news |date=5 June 1856 |title=DELEGATES AT LARGE |url=https://www.nyshistoricnewspapers.org/?a=d&d=ycc18560605-01.1.2&e=-------en-20--1--txt-txIN---------- |work=Yates County Chronicle |location=Penn Yan, N.Y. |page=2 |via=NYS Historic Newspapers |volume=XIV |issue=23}}

Beadle was originally a Whig. In 1861, he was elected to the New York State Assembly as a Union Republican, representing Chemung County. He served in the Assembly in 1862.{{Cite book |last=Murphy |first=William D. |url=https://www.google.com/books/edition/Biographical_Sketches_of_the_State_Offic/GX9BAAAAYAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=%22Tracy%20Beadle%22 |title=Biographical Sketches of the State Officers and Members of the Legislature of the State of New York, in 1862 and '63 |year=1863 |pages=142 |language=en |via=Google Books}} He lost the 1862 reelection to the Assembly to Democratic candidate Charles Hulett.{{Cite book |url=https://archive.org/details/eveningjournalal1863slsn/page/84/mode/1up?view=theater |title=The Evening Journal Almanac, 1863 |publisher=Weed, Parsons & Company |year=1863 |location=Albany, N.Y. |pages=84 |language=en |via=Google Books}} He served on a military committee for raising troops for the American Civil War in 1863. He was a delegate-at-large to the 1867-1868 New York State Constitutional Convention.{{Cite book |last=Hough |first=Franklin B. |author-link=Franklin B. Hough |url=https://www.google.com/books/edition/New_York_Convention_Manual/r-kJAAAAIAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&pg=PR7&printsec=frontcover |title=New York Convention Manual |publisher=Weed, Parsons & Company |year=1867 |location=Albany, N.Y. |pages=vii |language=en |via=Google Books}}

Beadle was an active member of the First Presbyterian Church. In 1833, he married Mary Worthington, daughter of Captain Ralph Worthington of Cooperstown. Their children were Ralph W., Henry, Chauncey M., and Anna B.

Beadle died at home on March 22, 1877.{{Cite news |date=23 March 1877 |title=DEATH OF DR. TRACY BEADLE |url=https://www.nyshistoricnewspapers.org/?a=d&d=eda18770323-01.1.4&e=-------en-20--1--txt-txIN---------- |work=Elmira Daily Advertiser |location=Elmira, N.Y. |page=4 |via=NYS Historic Newspapers |volume=XXIV |issue=70}} His funeral was held in his house, with Rev. Dr. A. W. Cowles reading Scripture, his brother Rev. Dr. Elias R. Beadle of the Second Presbyterian Church of Philadelphia offering a prayer, and Rev. Dr. W. E. Knox giving a few remarks at both the funeral and the burial in Woodlawn Cemetery.{{Cite news |date=27 March 1877 |title=FUNERAL OF THE LATE DR. TRACY BEADLE |url=https://www.nyshistoricnewspapers.org/?a=d&d=eda18770327-01.1.4&e=-------en-20--1--txt-txIN---------- |work=Elmira Daily Advertiser |location=Elmira, N.Y. |page=4 |via=NYS Historic Newspapers |volume=XXIV |issue=73}}