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<p></p> <table style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122;" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">Revision as of 16:33, 6 July 2023</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l1">Line 1:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 1:</td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Ancestry: https://www.ancestry.com/discoveryui-content/view/7984753:60525?tid=&amp;pid=&amp;queryId=59bbf39af6db5c70ae340e4c5f3bac5a&amp;_phsrc=HEg46715&amp;_phstart=successSource</ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"></ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[Image:lacey.jpg|left|thumb|250px|Photo courtesy: Linwood Legacies.]]LACY, Benjamin William. (Locke, NY, Mar. 12, 1849--Dubuque, IA, Sept. 28, 1912). In 1868 Lacy was a penniless young school teacher from Lima, Iowa, the son of an unsuccessful country doctor, when he was invited by a distinguished relative, Judge Westel Willoughby of Alexandria, Virginia, to study law in his office.  After a year, he obtained a job in the Bureau of the Census as a clerk. He moved into Washington and continued his law studies. He received his law degree from the Columbia School of Law in 1871. In Washington, Lacy was introduced to Congressman [[ALLISON, William Boyd|William Boyd ALLISON]] as a constituent and a relative of Judge Willoughby. Allison advised young Lacy to move to Dubuque after his graduation and seek a place in a law firm there.  </div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[Image:lacey.jpg|left|thumb|250px|Photo courtesy: Linwood Legacies.]]LACY, Benjamin William. (Locke, NY, Mar. 12, 1849--Dubuque, IA, Sept. 28, 1912). In 1868 Lacy was a penniless young school teacher from Lima, Iowa, the son of an unsuccessful country doctor, when he was invited by a distinguished relative, Judge Westel Willoughby of Alexandria, Virginia, to study law in his office.  After a year, he obtained a job in the Bureau of the Census as a clerk. He moved into Washington and continued his law studies. He received his law degree from the Columbia School of Law in 1871. In Washington, Lacy was introduced to Congressman [[ALLISON, William Boyd|William Boyd ALLISON]] as a constituent and a relative of Judge Willoughby. Allison advised young Lacy to move to Dubuque after his graduation and seek a place in a law firm there.  </div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> </table>

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<p></p> <table style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122;" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">Revision as of 16:31, 6 July 2023</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l1">Line 1:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 1:</td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[Image:lacey.jpg|left|thumb|250px|Photo courtesy: Linwood Legacies.]]LACY, Benjamin William. (Locke, NY, Mar. 12, 1849-Dubuque, IA, Sept. 28, 1912). In 1868 Lacy was a penniless young school teacher from Lima, Iowa, the son of an unsuccessful country doctor, when he was invited by a distinguished relative, Judge Westel Willoughby of Alexandria, Virginia, to study law in his office.  After a year, he obtained a job in the Bureau of the Census as a clerk. He moved into Washington and continued his law studies. He received his law degree from the Columbia School of Law in 1871. In Washington, Lacy was introduced to Congressman [[ALLISON, William Boyd|William Boyd ALLISON]] as a constituent and a relative of Judge Willoughby. Allison advised young Lacy to move to Dubuque after his graduation and seek a place in a law firm there.  </div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[Image:lacey.jpg|left|thumb|250px|Photo courtesy: Linwood Legacies.]]LACY, Benjamin William. (Locke, NY, Mar. 12, 1849<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">-</ins>-Dubuque, IA, Sept. 28, 1912). In 1868 Lacy was a penniless young school teacher from Lima, Iowa, the son of an unsuccessful country doctor, when he was invited by a distinguished relative, Judge Westel Willoughby of Alexandria, Virginia, to study law in his office.  After a year, he obtained a job in the Bureau of the Census as a clerk. He moved into Washington and continued his law studies. He received his law degree from the Columbia School of Law in 1871. In Washington, Lacy was introduced to Congressman [[ALLISON, William Boyd|William Boyd ALLISON]] as a constituent and a relative of Judge Willoughby. Allison advised young Lacy to move to Dubuque after his graduation and seek a place in a law firm there.  </div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>With a letter from the influential senator-elect and introduced around Dubuque by [[HENDERSON, David B.|David B. HENDERSON]], Lacy received a clerkship in the office of Adams &amp; Robinson, one of the leading law firms in the city. Hard work, initiative, and intelligence led to membership in the firm, marriage to partner Robinson&#039;s daughter, an appointment as district judge, and later a place as counsel to and then president of  the [[IOWA TRUST AND SAVINGS BANK]]. He also served on [[FINLEY HOSPITAL (THE)]] board, director of the Union Electric Company and the [[KEY CITY GAS COMPANY]], and a member of the board of trustees of the [[CARNEGIE-STOUT PUBLIC LIBRARY]].  </div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>With a letter from the influential senator-elect and introduced around Dubuque by [[HENDERSON, David B.|David B. HENDERSON]], Lacy received a clerkship in the office of Adams &amp; Robinson, one of the leading law firms in the city. Hard work, initiative, and intelligence led to membership in the firm, marriage to partner Robinson&#039;s daughter, an appointment as district judge, and later a place as counsel to and then president of  the [[IOWA TRUST AND SAVINGS BANK]]. He also served on [[FINLEY HOSPITAL (THE)]] board, director of the Union Electric Company and the [[KEY CITY GAS COMPANY]], and a member of the board of trustees of the [[CARNEGIE-STOUT PUBLIC LIBRARY]].  </div></td></tr> </table>

Randylyon https://www.encyclopediadubuque.org/index.php?title=LACY,_Benjamin_William&diff=154645&oldid=prev 2019-05-17T03:04:01Z

<p></p> <table style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122;" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">Revision as of 03:04, 17 May 2019</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l5">Line 5:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 5:</td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>In 1907 Allison was challenged by Progressive Republican governor of Iowa, Albert Baird Cummins, for the Republican nomination for senator, in a preferential primary in June 1908. Judge Lacy took a place on the Committee of Seven, headed by their fellow townsman, [[ADAMS, John Taylor|John Taylor ADAMS]] to lead and guide Allison&#039;s campaign for the nomination. Allison narrowly won the nomination -- but in two months he was dead from cancer. Lacy was appointed Allison&#039;s sole executor and trustee without bond.  </div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>In 1907 Allison was challenged by Progressive Republican governor of Iowa, Albert Baird Cummins, for the Republican nomination for senator, in a preferential primary in June 1908. Judge Lacy took a place on the Committee of Seven, headed by their fellow townsman, [[ADAMS, John Taylor|John Taylor ADAMS]] to lead and guide Allison&#039;s campaign for the nomination. Allison narrowly won the nomination -- but in two months he was dead from cancer. Lacy was appointed Allison&#039;s sole executor and trustee without bond.  </div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Judge Lacy soon found himself with another assignment. He was the designee to finish the legal work necessary for carrying out Allison's role as executor of his <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">own </del>wife's estate and also the estate of Mrs. Allison’s aunt, Mrs. James W. Grimes, who had died in 1890. These tasks were to run on for several years before they could be completed.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Judge Lacy soon found himself with another assignment. He was the designee to finish the legal work necessary for carrying out Allison's role as executor of his wife's estate and also the estate of Mrs. Allison’s aunt, Mrs. James W. Grimes, who had died in 1890. These tasks were to run on for several years before they could be completed.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Full retirement never happened, although the major burden of his firm&#039;s business was assumed by his partners, Glenn Brown and his son, Frank Robinson Lacy. Family matters, attention to his large personal property holdings, extra work at the bank of which he was president, travel, reading, and illnesses consumed most of his time and energy. Under the date of August 26, 1910, he refers in his diary to a &quot;constant numbness, with some prickly feeling, and at times a feeling of fullness and heat&quot; in the thumb and forefinger of his left hand. This disappeared with therapy. On March 12, 1911, he refers to his sixty-second birthday, his apparent good health, his ability to turn out work without fatigue, but at the same time a great desire to take life easier, to &quot;take in sail,&quot; voluntarily, not from absolute necessity.</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Full retirement never happened, although the major burden of his firm&#039;s business was assumed by his partners, Glenn Brown and his son, Frank Robinson Lacy. Family matters, attention to his large personal property holdings, extra work at the bank of which he was president, travel, reading, and illnesses consumed most of his time and energy. Under the date of August 26, 1910, he refers in his diary to a &quot;constant numbness, with some prickly feeling, and at times a feeling of fullness and heat&quot; in the thumb and forefinger of his left hand. This disappeared with therapy. On March 12, 1911, he refers to his sixty-second birthday, his apparent good health, his ability to turn out work without fatigue, but at the same time a great desire to take life easier, to &quot;take in sail,&quot; voluntarily, not from absolute necessity.</div></td></tr> </table>

Randylyon https://www.encyclopediadubuque.org/index.php?title=LACY,_Benjamin_William&diff=127117&oldid=prev 2015-12-06T18:33:28Z

<p></p> <table style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122;" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">Revision as of 18:33, 6 December 2015</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l1">Line 1:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 1:</td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[Image:lacey.jpg|left|thumb|250px|<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Headstone in </del>Linwood <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Cemetery</del>]]LACY, Benjamin William. (Locke, NY, Mar. 12, 1849-Dubuque, IA, Sept. 28, 1912). In 1868 Lacy was a penniless young school teacher from Lima, Iowa, the son of an unsuccessful country doctor, when he was invited by a distinguished relative, Judge Westel Willoughby of Alexandria, Virginia, to study law in his office.  After a year, he obtained a job in the Bureau of the Census as a clerk. He moved into Washington and continued his law studies. He received his law degree from the Columbia School of Law in 1871. In Washington, Lacy was introduced to Congressman [[ALLISON, William Boyd|William Boyd ALLISON]] as a constituent and a relative of Judge Willoughby. Allison advised young Lacy to move to Dubuque after his graduation and seek a place in a law firm there.  </div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[Image:lacey.jpg|left|thumb|250px|<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Photo courtesy: </ins>Linwood <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Legacies.</ins>]]LACY, Benjamin William. (Locke, NY, Mar. 12, 1849-Dubuque, IA, Sept. 28, 1912). In 1868 Lacy was a penniless young school teacher from Lima, Iowa, the son of an unsuccessful country doctor, when he was invited by a distinguished relative, Judge Westel Willoughby of Alexandria, Virginia, to study law in his office.  After a year, he obtained a job in the Bureau of the Census as a clerk. He moved into Washington and continued his law studies. He received his law degree from the Columbia School of Law in 1871. In Washington, Lacy was introduced to Congressman [[ALLISON, William Boyd|William Boyd ALLISON]] as a constituent and a relative of Judge Willoughby. Allison advised young Lacy to move to Dubuque after his graduation and seek a place in a law firm there.  </div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>With a letter from the influential senator-elect and introduced around Dubuque by [[HENDERSON, David B.|David B. HENDERSON]], Lacy received a clerkship in the office of Adams &amp; Robinson, one of the leading law firms in the city. Hard work, initiative, and intelligence led to membership in the firm, marriage to partner Robinson&#039;s daughter, an appointment as district judge, and later a place as counsel to and then president of  the [[IOWA TRUST AND SAVINGS BANK]]. He also served on [[FINLEY HOSPITAL (THE)]] board, director of the Union Electric Company and the [[KEY CITY GAS COMPANY]], and a member of the board of trustees of the [[CARNEGIE-STOUT PUBLIC LIBRARY]].  </div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>With a letter from the influential senator-elect and introduced around Dubuque by [[HENDERSON, David B.|David B. HENDERSON]], Lacy received a clerkship in the office of Adams &amp; Robinson, one of the leading law firms in the city. Hard work, initiative, and intelligence led to membership in the firm, marriage to partner Robinson&#039;s daughter, an appointment as district judge, and later a place as counsel to and then president of  the [[IOWA TRUST AND SAVINGS BANK]]. He also served on [[FINLEY HOSPITAL (THE)]] board, director of the Union Electric Company and the [[KEY CITY GAS COMPANY]], and a member of the board of trustees of the [[CARNEGIE-STOUT PUBLIC LIBRARY]].  </div></td></tr> </table>

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<p></p> <table style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122;" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">Revision as of 18:32, 6 December 2015</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l18">Line 18:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 18:</td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Sage, Leland. &quot;Two Gentlemen From Dubuque,&quot; Online: http://www.lib.uiowa.edu/spec-coll/bai/sage.htm</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Sage, Leland. &quot;Two Gentlemen From Dubuque,&quot; Online: http://www.lib.uiowa.edu/spec-coll/bai/sage.htm</div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"></ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">"Benjamin William Lacy." Linwood Legacies. http://www.linwoodlegacies.org/benjamin-william-lacy.html</ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[Category: Lawyers and Judges]]</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[Category: Lawyers and Judges]]</div></td></tr> </table>

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<p></p> <table style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122;" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">Revision as of 00:40, 6 April 2014</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l1">Line 1:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 1:</td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[Image:<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">bwlacy</del>.jpg|left|thumb|250px|Headstone in Linwood Cemetery]]LACY, Benjamin William. (Locke, NY, Mar. 12, 1849-Dubuque, IA, Sept. 28, 1912). In 1868 Lacy was a penniless young school teacher from Lima, Iowa, the son of an unsuccessful country doctor, when he was invited by a distinguished relative, Judge Westel Willoughby of Alexandria, Virginia, to study law in his office.  After a year, he obtained a job in the Bureau of the Census as a clerk. He moved into Washington and continued his law studies. He received his law degree from the Columbia School of Law in 1871. In Washington, Lacy was introduced to Congressman [[ALLISON, William Boyd|William Boyd ALLISON]] as a constituent and a relative of Judge Willoughby. Allison advised young Lacy to move to Dubuque after his graduation and seek a place in a law firm there.  </div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[Image:<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">lacey</ins>.jpg|left|thumb|250px|Headstone in Linwood Cemetery]]LACY, Benjamin William. (Locke, NY, Mar. 12, 1849-Dubuque, IA, Sept. 28, 1912). In 1868 Lacy was a penniless young school teacher from Lima, Iowa, the son of an unsuccessful country doctor, when he was invited by a distinguished relative, Judge Westel Willoughby of Alexandria, Virginia, to study law in his office.  After a year, he obtained a job in the Bureau of the Census as a clerk. He moved into Washington and continued his law studies. He received his law degree from the Columbia School of Law in 1871. In Washington, Lacy was introduced to Congressman [[ALLISON, William Boyd|William Boyd ALLISON]] as a constituent and a relative of Judge Willoughby. Allison advised young Lacy to move to Dubuque after his graduation and seek a place in a law firm there.  </div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>With a letter from the influential senator-elect and introduced around Dubuque by [[HENDERSON, David B.|David B. HENDERSON]], Lacy received a clerkship in the office of Adams &amp; Robinson, one of the leading law firms in the city. Hard work, initiative, and intelligence led to membership in the firm, marriage to partner Robinson&#039;s daughter, an appointment as district judge, and later a place as counsel to and then president of  the [[IOWA TRUST AND SAVINGS BANK]]. He also served on [[FINLEY HOSPITAL (THE)]] board, director of the Union Electric Company and the [[KEY CITY GAS COMPANY]], and a member of the board of trustees of the [[CARNEGIE-STOUT PUBLIC LIBRARY]].  </div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>With a letter from the influential senator-elect and introduced around Dubuque by [[HENDERSON, David B.|David B. HENDERSON]], Lacy received a clerkship in the office of Adams &amp; Robinson, one of the leading law firms in the city. Hard work, initiative, and intelligence led to membership in the firm, marriage to partner Robinson&#039;s daughter, an appointment as district judge, and later a place as counsel to and then president of  the [[IOWA TRUST AND SAVINGS BANK]]. He also served on [[FINLEY HOSPITAL (THE)]] board, director of the Union Electric Company and the [[KEY CITY GAS COMPANY]], and a member of the board of trustees of the [[CARNEGIE-STOUT PUBLIC LIBRARY]].  </div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l9">Line 9:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 9:</td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Full retirement never happened, although the major burden of his firm&#039;s business was assumed by his partners, Glenn Brown and his son, Frank Robinson Lacy. Family matters, attention to his large personal property holdings, extra work at the bank of which he was president, travel, reading, and illnesses consumed most of his time and energy. Under the date of August 26, 1910, he refers in his diary to a &quot;constant numbness, with some prickly feeling, and at times a feeling of fullness and heat&quot; in the thumb and forefinger of his left hand. This disappeared with therapy. On March 12, 1911, he refers to his sixty-second birthday, his apparent good health, his ability to turn out work without fatigue, but at the same time a great desire to take life easier, to &quot;take in sail,&quot; voluntarily, not from absolute necessity.</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Full retirement never happened, although the major burden of his firm&#039;s business was assumed by his partners, Glenn Brown and his son, Frank Robinson Lacy. Family matters, attention to his large personal property holdings, extra work at the bank of which he was president, travel, reading, and illnesses consumed most of his time and energy. Under the date of August 26, 1910, he refers in his diary to a &quot;constant numbness, with some prickly feeling, and at times a feeling of fullness and heat&quot; in the thumb and forefinger of his left hand. This disappeared with therapy. On March 12, 1911, he refers to his sixty-second birthday, his apparent good health, his ability to turn out work without fatigue, but at the same time a great desire to take life easier, to &quot;take in sail,&quot; voluntarily, not from absolute necessity.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The diary closed rather abruptly on July 14, 1912, and death followed on September 28, 1912.  </div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">[[Image:bwlacy.jpg|left|thumb|250px|Headstone in Linwood Cemetery]]</ins>The diary closed rather abruptly on July 14, 1912, and death followed on September 28, 1912.  </div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The Benjamin William Lacy Memorial was erected in [[JACKSON PARK]].</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The Benjamin William Lacy Memorial was erected in [[JACKSON PARK]].</div></td></tr> </table>

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<p></p> <table style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122;" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">Revision as of 05:38, 3 April 2014</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l1">Line 1:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 1:</td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[Image:bwlacy.jpg|left|thumb|250px|Headstone in Linwood Cemetery]]LACY, Benjamin William. (Locke, NY, Mar. 12, 1849-Dubuque, IA, Sept. 28, 1912). In 1868 Lacy was a penniless young school teacher from Lima, Iowa, the son of an unsuccessful country doctor, when he was invited by a distinguished relative, Judge Westel Willoughby of Alexandria, Virginia, to study law in his office.  After a year, he obtained a job in the Bureau of the Census as a clerk. He moved into Washington and continued his law studies. He received his law degree from the Columbia School of Law in 1871. In Washington, Lacy was introduced to Congressman [[ALLISON, William Boyd|William Boyd ALLISON]] as a constituent and a relative of Judge Willoughby. Allison <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">who </del>advised young Lacy to move to Dubuque after his graduation and seek a place in a law firm there.  </div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[Image:bwlacy.jpg|left|thumb|250px|Headstone in Linwood Cemetery]]LACY, Benjamin William. (Locke, NY, Mar. 12, 1849-Dubuque, IA, Sept. 28, 1912). In 1868 Lacy was a penniless young school teacher from Lima, Iowa, the son of an unsuccessful country doctor, when he was invited by a distinguished relative, Judge Westel Willoughby of Alexandria, Virginia, to study law in his office.  After a year, he obtained a job in the Bureau of the Census as a clerk. He moved into Washington and continued his law studies. He received his law degree from the Columbia School of Law in 1871. In Washington, Lacy was introduced to Congressman [[ALLISON, William Boyd|William Boyd ALLISON]] as a constituent and a relative of Judge Willoughby. Allison advised young Lacy to move to Dubuque after his graduation and seek a place in a law firm there.  </div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>With a letter from the influential senator-elect and introduced around Dubuque by [[HENDERSON, David B.|David B. HENDERSON]], Lacy received a clerkship in the office of Adams &amp; Robinson, one of the leading law firms in the city. Hard work, initiative, and intelligence led to membership in the firm, marriage to partner Robinson&#039;s daughter, an appointment as district judge, and later a place as counsel to and then president of  the [[IOWA TRUST AND SAVINGS BANK]]. He also served on [[FINLEY HOSPITAL (THE)]] board, director of the Union Electric Company and the [[KEY CITY GAS COMPANY]], and a member of the board of trustees of the [[CARNEGIE-STOUT PUBLIC LIBRARY]].  </div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>With a letter from the influential senator-elect and introduced around Dubuque by [[HENDERSON, David B.|David B. HENDERSON]], Lacy received a clerkship in the office of Adams &amp; Robinson, one of the leading law firms in the city. Hard work, initiative, and intelligence led to membership in the firm, marriage to partner Robinson&#039;s daughter, an appointment as district judge, and later a place as counsel to and then president of  the [[IOWA TRUST AND SAVINGS BANK]]. He also served on [[FINLEY HOSPITAL (THE)]] board, director of the Union Electric Company and the [[KEY CITY GAS COMPANY]], and a member of the board of trustees of the [[CARNEGIE-STOUT PUBLIC LIBRARY]].  </div></td></tr> </table>

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<p></p> <table style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122;" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">Revision as of 17:20, 2 April 2014</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l1">Line 1:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 1:</td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[Image:bwlacy.jpg|left|thumb|250px|Headstone in Linwood Cemetery]]LACY, Benjamin William. (Locke, NY, Mar. 12, 1849-Dubuque, IA, Sept. 28, 1912). In 1868 Lacy was a penniless young school teacher from Lima, Iowa, the son of an unsuccessful country doctor, when he was invited by a distinguished relative, Judge Westel Willoughby of Alexandria, Virginia, to study law in his office.  After a year, he obtained a job in the Bureau of the Census as a clerk. He moved into Washington and continued his law studies <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">receiving </del>his law degree from the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Columbian </del>School of Law in 1871.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[Image:bwlacy.jpg|left|thumb|250px|Headstone in Linwood Cemetery]]LACY, Benjamin William. (Locke, NY, Mar. 12, 1849-Dubuque, IA, Sept. 28, 1912). In 1868 Lacy was a penniless young school teacher from Lima, Iowa, the son of an unsuccessful country doctor, when he was invited by a distinguished relative, Judge Westel Willoughby of Alexandria, Virginia, to study law in his office.  After a year, he obtained a job in the Bureau of the Census as a clerk. He moved into Washington and continued his law studies<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">. He received </ins>his law degree from the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Columbia </ins>School of Law in 1871<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">. In Washington, Lacy was introduced to Congressman [[ALLISON, William Boyd|William Boyd ALLISON]] as a constituent and a relative of Judge Willoughby. Allison who advised young Lacy to move to Dubuque after his graduation and seek a place in a law firm there</ins>.  </div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">During these student days in Washington, Lacy was introduced to Congressman [[ALLISON, William Boyd|William Boyd ALLISON]] as a constituent and a relative of judge Willoughby. It was Allison who advised young Lacy to move to Dubuque after his graduation and seek a place in </del>a <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">law firm there. With an introduction </del>from the influential senator-elect and introduced around <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">town </del>by [[HENDERSON, David B.|David B. HENDERSON]], Lacy <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">finally </del>received a clerkship in the office of Adams &amp; Robinson, one of the leading law firms in the city. Hard work, initiative, and <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">intellectual brilliance were rewarded by admission into </del>membership in the firm, marriage to partner Robinson's daughter, an appointment as district judge, and later a place as counsel to and then president of  the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Iowa Trust and Savings Bank</del>. He also served on [[FINLEY HOSPITAL (THE)]] board, director of the Union Electric Company and the [[KEY CITY GAS COMPANY]], and a member of the board of trustees of the [[CARNEGIE-STOUT PUBLIC LIBRARY]].  </div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">With </ins>a <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">letter </ins>from the influential senator-elect and introduced around <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Dubuque </ins>by [[HENDERSON, David B.|David B. HENDERSON]], Lacy received a clerkship in the office of Adams &amp; Robinson, one of the leading law firms in the city. Hard work, initiative, and <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">intelligence led to </ins>membership in the firm, marriage to partner Robinson's daughter, an appointment as district judge, and later a place as counsel to and then president of  the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">[[IOWA TRUST AND SAVINGS BANK]]</ins>. He also served on [[FINLEY HOSPITAL (THE)]] board, director of the Union Electric Company and the [[KEY CITY GAS COMPANY]], and a member of the board of trustees of the [[CARNEGIE-STOUT PUBLIC LIBRARY]].  </div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>In 1907 Allison was challenged by Progressive Republican governor of Iowa, Albert Baird Cummins, for the Republican nomination for senator, in a preferential primary in June 1908. <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">At great sacrifice, </del>Judge Lacy took a place on the Committee of Seven, headed by their fellow townsman, [[ADAMS, John Taylor|John Taylor ADAMS]] to lead and guide Allison's campaign for the nomination. Allison narrowly won the nomination -- but in two months he was dead from <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">the </del>cancer <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">which should have precluded his candidacy in the first place</del>. Lacy was appointed Allison's sole executor and trustee without bond.  </div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>In 1907 Allison was challenged by Progressive Republican governor of Iowa, Albert Baird Cummins, for the Republican nomination for senator, in a preferential primary in June 1908. Judge Lacy took a place on the Committee of Seven, headed by their fellow townsman, [[ADAMS, John Taylor|John Taylor ADAMS]] to lead and guide Allison's campaign for the nomination. Allison narrowly won the nomination -- but in two months he was dead from cancer. Lacy was appointed Allison's sole executor and trustee without bond.  </div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Judge Lacy soon found himself with another assignment<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">: he </del>was the designee to finish the legal work necessary for carrying out Allison's role as executor of his own wife's estate and also the estate of Mrs. Allison’s aunt, Mrs. James W. Grimes, who had died in 1890. These tasks were to run on for several years before they could be completed.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Judge Lacy soon found himself with another assignment<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">. He </ins>was the designee to finish the legal work necessary for carrying out Allison's role as executor of his own wife's estate and also the estate of Mrs. Allison’s aunt, Mrs. James W. Grimes, who had died in 1890. These tasks were to run on for several years before they could be completed.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Full retirement <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">would </del>never <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">become a reality</del>, although the major burden of his firm's business was assumed by his partners, Glenn Brown and his son, Frank Robinson Lacy. Family matters, attention to his large personal property holdings, extra work at the bank of which he was president, travel, reading, and <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">petty </del>illnesses consumed most of his time and energy. Under the date of August 26, 1910, he refers in his diary to a "constant numbness, with some prickly feeling, and at times a feeling of fullness and heat" in the thumb and forefinger of his left hand. This disappeared with therapy. On March 12, 1911, he refers to his sixty-second birthday, his apparent good health, his ability to turn out work without fatigue, but at the same time a great desire to take life easier, to "take in sail," voluntarily, not from absolute necessity.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Full retirement never <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">happened</ins>, although the major burden of his firm's business was assumed by his partners, Glenn Brown and his son, Frank Robinson Lacy. Family matters, attention to his large personal property holdings, extra work at the bank of which he was president, travel, reading, and illnesses consumed most of his time and energy. Under the date of August 26, 1910, he refers in his diary to a "constant numbness, with some prickly feeling, and at times a feeling of fullness and heat" in the thumb and forefinger of his left hand. This disappeared with therapy. On March 12, 1911, he refers to his sixty-second birthday, his apparent good health, his ability to turn out work without fatigue, but at the same time a great desire to take life easier, to "take in sail," voluntarily, not from absolute necessity.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The diary closed rather abruptly on July 14, 1912, and death followed on September 28, 1912.  </div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The diary closed rather abruptly on July 14, 1912, and death followed on September 28, 1912.  </div></td></tr> </table>

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<p></p> <table style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122;" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">Revision as of 04:28, 28 December 2013</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l12">Line 12:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 12:</td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The Benjamin William Lacy Memorial was erected in [[JACKSON PARK]].</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The Benjamin William Lacy Memorial was erected in [[JACKSON PARK]].</div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"></ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>---</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>---</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> </table>

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<p></p> <table style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122;" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">Revision as of 04:28, 28 December 2013</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l11">Line 11:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 11:</td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The diary closed rather abruptly on July 14, 1912, and death followed on September 28, 1912.  </div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The diary closed rather abruptly on July 14, 1912, and death followed on September 28, 1912.  </div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">His home later became Hoffmann Mortuary</del>.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">The Benjamin William Lacy Memorial was erected in [[JACKSON PARK]]</ins>.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div> </div></td><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-added"></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>---</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>---</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> </table>

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