Note: This is just one of1,325 family groupings listed onThe Political Graveyard web site.These families each have three or more politician members, all linked together by blood, marriage or adoption. These groupings — even thenames of the groupings,and the areas of main activity — are the result of a computer algorithm working with the data I have,not the choices of any historian or genealogist.  | Samuel Levis Gracey (1835-1911) — also known asSamuel L. Gracey — of Smyrna,KentCounty, Del.; Pawtucket,ProvidenceCounty, R.I.; Chelsea,SuffolkCounty, Mass.; Cambridge,MiddlesexCounty, Mass.; Natick,MiddlesexCounty, Mass.; Lynn,EssexCounty, Mass.; Boston,SuffolkCounty, Mass.Born in Philadelphia,PhiladelphiaCounty, Pa.,September8, 1835.Methodistminister; served in the Union Army during the Civil War; U.S.Consul inFoochow, 1890-93, 1897-1911, died in office 1911.Methodist.Member,GrandArmy of the Republic.Died bysuicide,when hecut histhroat with a razor, in the West NewtonSanitarium,West Newton, Newton,MiddlesexCounty, Mass.,August19, 1911 (age75 years, 345days).Interment atMt.Moriah Cemetery, West Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pa. | | | Spencer Pettis Gracey (1865-1933) — also known asSpencer P. Gracey — of Atlanta,LoganCounty, Ill.; Berkeley,AlamedaCounty, Calif.; Hankow (now part of Wuhan),China.Born in Philadelphia,PhiladelphiaCounty, Pa.,December18, 1865.Operasinger; U.S. Vice Consul inFoochow, as of 1898; U.S. Consular Marshal inFoochow, as of 1898; worked for StandardOil companyin Japan and China;foreignexchange broker.Died, fromperitonitisandheartfailure, in InternationalHospital,Hankow (now part of Wuhan),China,January15, 1933 (age67 years, 28days).Cremated.  | Wilbur Tirrell Gracey (1877-1945) — also known asWilbur T. Gracey — of Oakland,AlamedaCounty, Calif.; Woodbury,GloucesterCounty, N.J.; Troy,RensselaerCounty, N.Y.Born in East Weymouth, Weymouth,NorfolkCounty, Mass.,February26, 1877.U.S. Vice Consul inFoochow, 1899-1902; U.S. Vice & Deputy Consul inFoochow, 1902-04, 1905;Nanking, 1904-05; U.S. Vice & Deputy Consul General inHong Kong, 1905-06; U.S. Consul inTsingtao, 1906-10;Nanking, 1910-12;Progreso, 1912-14;Seville, 1914-18;Monterrey, 1918;Birmingham, as of 1919-20.Died in New Jersey,October2, 1945 (age68 years, 218days).Burial location unknown. |
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