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

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, the son of Henry and Susan Beadle. Beadle grew up in

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. He studied medicine with Dr. Mitchell of

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and his uncle Dr. Chauncey Beadle of St. Catharines, Canada and graduated from

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. In 1831, he became a member of the Otsego County Medical Society and formed a partnership as physicians and apothecaries with Erastus Curtiss under the firm name Curtiss & Beadle. They had a brick store in Cooperstown. The partnership dissolved in 1833. He also began running the Green Store with Elias Root in 1832, although that partnership dissolved in 1834. 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

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. This land became the Fifth Ward of Elmira. In 1855, he was the Republican candidate for the

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. He was an alternate delegate to the

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. 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

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. He lost the 1862 reelection to the Assembly to Democratic candidate

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. He served on a military committee for raising troops for the

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in 1863. He was a delegate-at-large to the 1867-1868 New York State Constitutional Convention. Beadle was an active member of the First

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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. 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

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References

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The Political Graveyard
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