Los Angeles-San Diego-Marin County CA Archives Biographies.....Lacy, Sr., William June 11, 1835 - August 7, 1897
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Source: California and Californians, Vol. IV, Published 1932, Pages 47 - 48
Author: The Lewis Publishing Company

     WILLIAM LACY, SR., was born in London, England, June 11, 1835, was reared 
and educated there, and as a young man came to America in search of his 
fortune. For several years his home was in Indiana, where he met and married 
Miss Isabella Rigg. She was born in the historic city of Carlisle, in 
Northumberland, England. In 1863 William Lacy and wife set out for California, 
traveling around by the Isthmus and landing in San Francisco, and soon located 
at Bolinas in Marin County. William Lacy, Sr., was a general merchant there 
four years, and selling his business, moved to Southern California. For a 
number of years his home was at San Diego, where he practiced his profession 
as an architect. In 1874 he removed to Los Angeles, and for nearly a quarter 
of a century was closely associated with business in that city and surrounding 
territory. He was a hardware merchant, and was also interested in banking, 
serving as the first cashier of the old Commercial, now the First National, 
Bank of Los Angeles and afterwards serving as director of that institution. He 
became associated during the '80s with William Rowland in developing the 
second oil field in Southern California, the Puente Oil Company.

     He was the chief mover in organizing this company, and after financing it 
started the prospecting and development of wells which for many wars has made 
the name Puente synonymous with the petroleum wealth of Southern California. 
Mr. Lacy was president of the company for several years, but on account of 
other interests resigned that office and thereafter divided his time among 
many enterprises. He was interested in real estate, and laid out several 
additions to the East Side of Los Angeles, materially extending the corporate 
limits. He also had extensive mining interests in old Mexico, and his death 
occurred in Mexico, August 7, 1897, at the age of sixty-two.

     He was a democrat in politics, and was always ready with his time and 
means to further any community projects, though never seeking personal 
recognition in public office. His widow survived him and passed away in Los 
Angeles in February, 1905. They were the parents of six children: William, 
president of the Lacy Manufacturing Company, Richard H., secretary and 
treasurer of the Lacy Manufacturing Company; Edward, who has extensive mining 
interests in Mexico; Fred G., who died when twenty-eight years of age; Sophia 
and Isabelle, both residents of Los Angeles.

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