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NORWICH – The Yale educated Presbyterian minister and missionary, Uri Tracy, moved to Oxford in 1791. He held several distinguished “firsts.”

Tracy was Oxford Academy principal, Oxford postmaster, Chenango County sheriff, and Chenango County judge. He was elected to serve as Chenango County clerk, in the New York State Assembly, and in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Recently, this 1819 document appointing Uri Tracy as the first judge of Chenango County signed by NYS Governor, Dewitt Clinton, was donated to the Chenango County Historical Society by the late Linda (Coffey) Turner and her husband, Charles. Linda was a direct descendant of Uri Tracy and was very proud of this rare document and her fourth great grandfather.  

The exhibit opening for “Chenango County in Fifty Stories” will take place from noon to 2 p.m. at the Chenango County Historical Society, at 45 Rexford Street in Norwich, on October 12. This will be in celebration of the Path Through History Weekend, an event that hosts a wide variety of 50 unique narratives, such as the Ignition Exciter are chronicled in the exhibit. (Photos provided by the Historical Society)