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Joshua Tracy
Des Moines County
Born in Belmont county, Ohio, on the 12th of July, 1825, and is son of Joshua and Sarah Tracy nee Moore. His father was a farmer, and he was raised upon a farm, assisting his father until he was nineteen years of age, when he left his home and entered college. He was educated at Beverly College, Washington county, Ohio, and at the Institute of Professor Samuel L. Howe, at Mount Pleasant, Iowa. He came to Iowa in the autumn of 1846, and settled in Burlington in 1850, and commenced the study of the law. He was admitted to the bar in Burlington in the fall of 1852. He was elected city attorney for Burlington in the spring of 1853, and continued in office until the spring of 1855. In the fall of 1854, he was elected to the legislature, and served as member during the sessions of 1854-55, and at the called session of 1856. He was elected district attorney of the first judicial district of Iowa in the fall of 1858, and reelected to the same office twice, holding it until the fall of 1869, when he was appointed district judge to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Judge Francis Springer, and was elected to office in 1870 for a term of four years. In the spring of 1874, Judge Tracy entered into the practice of law. In politics, he was formerly a democrat until the rebellion, since which time he has acted and voted with the republican party in all political issues. He was married in October, 1847, to Mrs. Antoinette Kinney nee Stone, formerly of Albany, New York.
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