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the trunking llrm or Ualt iVTracy; and in connection with Mr, Gait erected the AcAdemy of Music in Sterling, llesides f-frt bK try s t ototii an U raclHTTu g Interests, Mr. Tiucy has large interests In other manufactories situated m.thia viciuity! In our place was practically without manufactories; when he died, it had become one of the foremost towns in Northern Illinois in business activities. I11 reviewing the history of our industrial advancement, we ilnd no name more worthy to be honored, as u promoter of our success, than that of George .*S. Tracy. To whom was lie unequal \ Descended from a hardy race, not ashamed to work, Mr;Tracy naturally sought a vocation wherein chance was not the chief element of success. Patient labor ami application are as necessary fur success In business as they are in the pursuits of science. The old Greek maxim was: To become, an. able man iu any profession three, things arc necessary,—nature, study and practice/* hord Melbourne said; “Mukdig it small provision for the young men is of all things tho most prcjudical to themselves. The young should hear this language; It depends upon your own exertions whether you starve or.not/* No provision** eui-barraseed Mr. Tracy b youth, ‘and whatever success he achieved In business pursuits, he won by his own diligent, patient, and intelligent devotion to business, lie early recognized the law that he who would achieve success must learn to labor and wait/* ills early experience in life made him sympathize with those in his employment, and enabled him rightly to discriminate between merit and demerit amongst them., ileuce lie grew in favor with them as the years passed by.Deliberate iu speech,. self-possessed under stress of dirileulties, keenly intelligent in the Hues of buslneaB pursued by him, he rarely erred in Judgment of men or things. , He was not given to unfriendlycnticism of his business competitors or his ueighbors. Without personal or business jealousy, hla speech was judicious commendatiqn, or it was withheld. He was conservative iii politics; iu religion by inheritance and
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Sterling Standard
Sterling, Illinois, US
Thu, May 14, 1891
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