1674-5 John Collins192
THE NATIONAL CYCLOPIEDIA
mitten that Issued the song book used through- developed by the American bar." Alone, or la
out the synod, editor of the religious calendar, collaboration with J1r. Snuthmayd, he drew maay
"Cross Banner"' and the monthly magazine, hundreds of inatrunu•nts, many more than any
"Friend of the Youth," and nasneinte editor of twn other men ever fr:uued, including 'wares of
the weekly n.•wapajs•r, "Native bond." JIr. tills :111.1 .lee.k ..f trust in all branches of the
Sw•ens■on was niternale•at•Itrge for the state legal praetiee. That no eoitest or question was
of kaftans to the Republican national ennven- ever raised in regard to any n( these numerous
tions in 1AA.A and 1892. and was n member of the instruments is a record virtually unrrputlled la
Kunsan legislature during 1889-110. Ile wax the history. .Mr. Tracy was a ehnrler Member of
author of "The Swedes in America" (\$All); the. New fork City liar Assoeintion, nn.l a mem-
'Address at the Dedication of the New College ber of the American liar Association, New
Building at Augnatnna" (1889); "Vid Item- York State 13nr Association, New York Law
mets Yard" (1a90): 41 Sverige" (1891); Institute, American Society of International
"Forgat•mig•e•j" (1892); with Rev. Ahrnham• l.nty, the New England 'm•ir•Iy, Die Dialer nt
Ann, ",Tube1•all•um" (149.1); "Ater 1 Sverige" F'onudere and Patriots of America, Sons of Ib.
(1498); and "I notrgonstund" (19(13), 11e re. American Revolution and the t1ilitary Order of
ceived the hnnorary degrees of M.A. from tho Loyal Legion. A resident of Plainfield,
Augustana College in 1839, Ph.D. from the N. .T„ fur many years lie was active in the
Royal T•niveraity nt Upanla, Sweden, in 1893, community life of that town, 'wing n alrntl•er
nn.l >1,T). from August:urn College nn.l Seminary and president of a h.• lo.tn ....,,,cit n gnvcranr n(
and Thiel College, 1;rrrnvillr, 1'44., in 1!'''. the \luhlrnherg hospital for twenlyonx years,
Ifo belonged to the Kansas Historical Society, and n director of the Plainfield public library.
A giant in hotly and mind, he pnsses)1r.I nn Ile was married Sept, :11, 1(111:1 to Martha Sher.
extraordinary energy and enpnrity for tvork and ruin, d:u,ghter of Bev. David 1 r„ue, "( Wet.
was n for..•ful and rlo. cent 14 or.
Ire, hors,: \loss. Ile ons the rasher of five dnrtgh•
sw,•n•sen was mnrrie.1 nt Moline, 111., Sept, I:,, ter., Emily Baldwin, Mary Fly:iris, Margaret
to Alma Christina Lind, and had two chit- Louisa, wife of Dr. (.•hnrles \T. Mix, Edith ldaat•
dren, Bertha and Annie Svensson, Ile died in rings and Martha Tracy, and of four aonz, How
Los Angeles, Calif., Feb, ]4, 1904. and Crosby, Everts, Robert Storer and WilliamTRACY, Jeremiah Evart; Inwyer, wn■ born Et'rtrts Tracy. \I r. Tracy died nt Italltudc*le
nt. \\'indoor, Vt., ,I:tn, 31, 14:I.1, son of Ebenezer \taus., I I., 11, 1!e2:I,
tarter rind Ma rtbn Sherman (Everts) 'pricy.
B-.ohnStiles, orultnri t and eity{is trtivate of Dartmouth College and of the Andover Theological `rudeveloper,nrh^ J.,
inary (1S=2), was editor and proprietor of the :9, Is:) , Ann of Is:,a. :1n. S;
"Vermont ('hrnniele," p p I ,nth se's Collins,('0a
n religious newspal.cr lies tool n .L•s�•.vi.lant of Praise's ollia
whir) for more than thirty years w'aa n power. (jnaker, %v)o rause from Ita.l••Iif, \liddlcie ,
fill influence both in and beyond the state. Ilia F;ngl:uul, and settled at Itnrliagton, N..1., where
earliest American ancestor was Stephen Tracy, he (wilt the lirst Quaker .,,.,tiug.house,in 11/7x.
a native of England, who with his wife Try• Prone Francis and his wife \lar(• r:oslin, the line
;,Msa landed at Plymouth, Mass., in 111:1, Ti,.. motion., through their sou . fffii1T-!r,,l his wit',
line of ,11,eent is trnrr.l from them, throng!, 1:Iiraheth Moore: their sou I•rau,•is and his wife
John and Mary (Prim/.) Tracy, Stephen and Ann Haines; their son John and his wife Ruth
1)ehnrah (I'angbnrn) Tracy, Thomas and Eliz:\• Itnrrodale; :11„1 their sou Arthur and his wife
beth (Warner) Tracy, and Joseph and Ruth NIarlha ltn!linger, the graudl.ar•nls of John
(Carter) 'Pratt•, parents of 1•:b.11ezer 4'. %Tracy. Stiles Collins, Educated in pnl.Ii.• :11111 privet.•
After rr,nIpleting hie prep:sr:dory 1rniuing in the schools in Monr..1own, ,\Ir, .'',Ilios entered the
public art'•"els of his native state, .Jeremiah E. fmtit•growing and nursery business in Is.'s:, tad
Tracy began the study of Ins- in the office of Inter t•otablished the Pleasant Valley nnracriea
his uncle, Hon. William M. }worts, in New York which he roadncte.l for many years. Ib• nlso
tits. Noma years Infer he rnterrd Die I,s uulin•aiied lo.ilder.' an•I f,unn•,,' supply pints
school of Vide 1'i,terslly, n,, l 1114 duly gray!,, nl \to..n•slowi mid \I.•r. haotyille. N, J. l0 Iss9
ated LL.B. in 1 .1i. He wns n.Imitte.l to the \Ir. Collins wns one of a group of New Jersey
ber of New York in the same year, beginning men who undertook to develop :11, inunenae
praetice as an assistant in the office of Evnr,s, co118not grove on the Florida coast, They puny
Snuthnlay,l & Choate, one of the trading firms chased disconnc,led strips of I:uul, with a tutor
of the country, in which be became n parker In acreage of 41,.;nu ,•strn.lirtg for sisly•li,, 11111,44
.lune. ]A..9 Ile continued a member of this firm nlnng the Florida const north of Miami heart',
throughout his professional career, covering but although the prnjeet was a failure Mr. Col•
half a century, and ending with his retirement tins did not relinquish his interest in Florida
in 1907. The style was changed to Eynrts, fruit growing, n 19(1'1 ne aired Iron acres
Choate & Beaman in 1SS4, nn.l to Everts. Tracy of Innrl between the Atlantic• oeenn nn
•
1 Sherman in 1901. It represented ninny inter• enyneT};-rtireef1- j'tst of Miami, and on thin
est' of the lint importance, including the tract planted the •Inrgest ny",•rine grove in the
Pennsylvania, New York t'entrnl nn.1 the world, devoting 1111101 r,ltention to finding differ•
l':,ill.' railron.ds, several lending shipping coin• ent varieties of the fruit that would Irnr at
ponies and nnirerous eorp•,rations, limns nnl different lint,44 in the year. later he derided to
individuals engaged in financial, realty and gen. develop the trar•t into residential properties and
er:tl business operations. Mr. Tracy enjoyed the for that purpose organize,! the \li:ani Reach Im•
reputation of being the foremost renity Inwyer pros,nlent Co., of which Ire was president, and
in New York city, nnd according to records,dia.. deeded to it the lnoo.:icre tract in 1912. Inter
pinye.l similar skill in surrogate prnetiee rind lie constructed a /aunt between Itis,•aynr hey
in suits for neootrnting. In the words of a pro• and Lake I'anroist and I•ridged Biscayne bny,
fessienal associate. he was "unquestionably the between Miami heal, and \I ami, with n
greatest conveyancer and draughtsman ever wooden structure two and a half utiles long, at
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of $100,000. It was Inter replaced by
•i and concrete causeway. After the
los of the bridge the maugrovu swain')
tendering the bay was cleared, the level
land lifted and the hay deepened by
6 material from the lots nod building
ilea was begun. curl (1. FIAlier, or
polls, Ind., an,' New York, purchased a.
section of the land from the Miami Reach
anent Co. and on it carried out an enor•
dredging and hnilding development in•
the expenditure of millions of dollars.
h u a result of Mr. Collins' vision, ruur•
pa enterprise, the present city of Miami
with a permanent population of over
and one u( the .stmt popular tt•inter
Oa the Florida .•.,nst, has g rnwn ❑I, nn
which wits principally swam'', when he
Its development." Mr. Collins wns a mem.
;af the United States Toror Iogirnl Society
the New Jersey llnrtieultnral Noriety, and
aleag member of the (neiely of Friends.
twice married: (1t ,tan. 17, 1401, In
1 A, dnughter of Rrn•jnntin Rogers, of \It.
1, N. J., by whom he had five children:
&, Katharine R., wife of Thomas .T. Pan•
Arthur .1., Irving A. And Tester Collins;
Collins died in I914 nn,l 1m, nutrrir.t un
16, 1910, Ida 1C., daughter of Buren T,nr•
'a( Stavanger, Nnrwny. Tie died at Miami
Fla„ Felt. 11, 1929.
SON, Charles Fletcher, U. C. senator
1-17), was horn at \\'inalnw, Moss., Feb.
1839, son of \Cillinm Fletcher and Ruth F.
kr) Johnson. Ile was descended from
Johnson, a native of l' nglnnd who enure
,Ameriea with the Winthrop group in 11130
nettled In Rntlnrv, \Ins'.. Jahn, W110 was n
ly to the general court in Id31, ntnrried
*retry, and from them the line of drsrent
through Humphrey and Eleanor (Cheney)
Hon; Ren,jautin and Rebecca (Hersey) John•
I JOahmn and Lydia (Wird) T,inojn .Tnhn•
; Jaeoh, whose wife is unknown, awl ,Inco),
Ahlgnil ( Ila telt t Johnson, the grnu.lparents
Charles F. Johnson. Ile nttended the Water.
Classical institute, Colby and Row'dnin col.
and wns grndunfed .\.R at the last in 1079,
spent a period teaehing st•hnol and rase to the
tion of principal of the Machias (Me.) high
I. He studied law simultaneously and
nt
being ndtteul to the bar in 1900'began
prsetire as junior pnrtnor of the firm of
wa k Johnsen of l\ateryitle, Me. In 1990,
became n mem her of the firm of \\'el,b,
Honk Weld, and after its dissolution four
later he maintained an independent prive-
t it Waterville. Ile entered politics AA a
her of the ltrmneratie party and Anon rnsr
prominence. Ile was n delegate to the nn•
1 conventions of the period from 1904 to
116` and nerved his city ns mayor in 1993 and
her of the hoard nf aldermen In 1099. 1Ie
led as a candidate far governor in 109'_' and
is in 1994. :\(ter serving t wo terms in the
alae house of representatives, from 19(' to
109, he was elected to the 1". S. senate for the
11-17 term, the tint Democratic senator from
Ake since 1417, In the senate he Arr'ed no n
her of the rnmmlttees on finance, nnt•nI
•alfadrs, pensions and fisheries. (1n returning to
rate life he wag appointed 1'. R. circuit
edge In the first circuit and remained on the
eh for twelve years, resigning in Mny, 1929.
was a trt.tee of Itowtloin 1'oll•gr, which
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ties -1t7 Oa I D il Kwir (As 04
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eonferred upon him the honorary degree of
1.1..1). in 1911, and a member of the Masonic
fraternity (:\3rd degree). Ile was married, Pee.
91, 7xM1, to Abhie W., daughter of Isa:t.• \V
Britton, of \Yinelnw•, Me., and they 111111 a laugh
ter, Entnut I.., tei fu of Henry \\', Ablmt 1, of
\\'ntt•r'illc. Ile died tet S1. I'etershmrg,
Feb. LI, 1930,
CALVERT, John Bette, clergyman and editor.
was born at l'rehle. Cortland yo., N. 1'., Aug
29, 19.72, son of ,ironer Alexander and Clive
:\,Inline ( Bet tit) ('elver,, grandson of John and
Isabella 1slory) Calvert, ami gra•:It IV:unlson
John Calvert of Armagh, lrel:uol, tthn settled
in New York city in 1792, and later remove.)
to a (arm in Saratoga county, N. Y. I)r. (':tl
vert reeeive.t his early education at the ('ort•
land Ac'rtdlentt•. Homer. N. Y. the "(111 .\ea.!
emy" at Cortland, and at the Itnehest•r t'ollt•gi
ate Institute, where lie was awnrdcd the gold
medal for oratory. In IA71-72, he was grin•
eil+:tl n( the high school rat tf l.'an, N. 1-.. and
then ,entered the I'niyersity of Rochester, %len.
he was graduated Alt. in I' 7'l and .\.\I. in
1879. In the latter 'ear also he rnutpletel the
course in the Eldon Theologi'al `'en:in:tr". New
York city. Ile had been licensed to preach in
l97.i; was ordained in :ut.l front l l to
l`tt 7. served as assistant pastor of the 1':tiv:iry
Itnptist Church, New York city. Li 1979. l+.•
was elet•trd secretary of the Baptist Mission•
ar' Convention of the state of New York. au•l
demonstrated suet grent executive nhility that
in 1,Zsrd he was unanimously el,nsen president of
the convention. Ile retire,) from this other in
191)7, after haying performed a lasting tier i.•1.
in giving direction and permanency to the coo•
ventint's work. As n freepient enntrilutor to
the ,.Inmos of "The 1:enntiner," "Zion's .\•Ivo
carr," :ea.l "Thr Standard," his tastes finally
led hien into journalism. enol in Fehrutrv, 19,9.
he purchased the "Baptist Weekly" changed the
name to "The Christian Inquirer." and was its
editor :in.' president of the publishing enutpaav
for set ,•n years, Itt NI:tr•h, 1 "9'., chis 1 tInr
was rnusoli.lnted with "The Examiner." Or
Calvert bee:une a ntorkhotder of the F:Samtitut r
Co. and w:14 one of the editorial staff until 1912.
.\s an editor, Dr. Calvert was singularly well
equipped, having nn unusual sense of news
values and n wide knowledge of denominational
movements and men. For many years• he was
president of the Anterienu Seamen's Friend
)oeiet', an institution to telieh Itis interest
was I:argely devoted its his I:tlrr vr:ers. 110
also serve.) as president of the New York
Evangelistic Committee, whose work he tont;
sustained with personal services and financial
eontrittutinns; was n member of the national
hoard nf trusters of the Near F,:nt Relief; was
:t trustee of the University of It,•hester, and
during 1911.1-1U was president of the board of
trustees of Cook Arn,lrmy. After 1910, alsn, he
was president of the lnstittte of ,\ppli.•,I \Iasi••.
In collabnr:ttinn with F:,Is in A. Bedell, he
piled the "Church Ilymnary" for use in Baptist
churches, and was the author of "Men \Cho
Have Meant Much to Me" (1918), "The Impar
tint Christ," and "Ministering in a Wide Field."
11t• wits a member of the I'hi Tlrta Kappa n(
Rnrht•sler I'niytrsil' (prrsi.lenl, Iv!t!t 19nu1.
New Ynrk :\lumni .\s:meiation of lh,• t'nty.•r
sitz• of Rnehester (president, 1099-19u1 t. Itapli+t
�nrial 1'oinu (president, 1!t04-t1.i), Cortland
comity T:oeiets' (president, 191011, Autrriran