When Hiram Emery Tracy was born on 21 May 1845, in Gouldsboro, Hancock, Maine, United States, his father, Enoch Tracy, was 37 and his mother, Mariah Gubtail, was 36. He married Josephine Moon on 12 September 1868, in Gouldsboro, Hancock, Maine, United States. He died on 21 March 1869, in At Sea, at the age of 23, and was buried in Gouldsboro, Hancock, Maine, United States.
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"In 1851, Maine outlawed the sale of alcohol, allowing exceptions only for ""medicinal, mechanical, and manufacturing purposes"". This made Maine the first state to experiment with prohibition. Neal Dow, mayor of Portland, believed that alcohol was linked to slavery and was also convinced by the Christian temperance movement. Dow ran into problems later for his anti-immigration rhetoric against the Irish, and also for breaking his own prohibition laws; although not a designated ""purchaser"", Dow personally purchased alcohol to distribute to local doctors, violating a technicality. As the citizens turned against him, Dow eventually ordered soldiers to fire on protesters. This marked a sharp decline in Dow's political career, and the Maine Law was repealed by 1856. Aspects of the law would remain in tact, however, and ultimately paved the way for the 18th Amendment, which prohibited alcohol on the national level."
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English: variant of Tracey .
Irish: variant of Treacy .
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