Frank E. Lacey Biography This biography appears on pages 605-606 in "History of Dakota Territory" by George W. Kingsbury, Vol. IV (1915) and was scanned, OCRed and edited by Maurice Krueger, mkrueger@iw.net. This file may be freely copied by individuals and non-profit organizations for their private use. Any other use, including publication, storage in a retrieval system, or transmission by electronic, mechanical, or other means requires the written approval of the file's author. This file is part of the SDGENWEB Archives. If you arrived here inside a frame or from a link from somewhere else, our front door is at http://usgwarchives.org/sd/sdfiles.htm FRANK E. LACEY. Frank E. Lacey, who has been a resident of South Dakota throughout practically his entire life, or for more than three decades, is an extensive potato grower of Sioux Falls township, Minnehaha county. His birth occurred in Scottsville, New York, on the 25th of November, 1882, his parents being William G. and Margaret Lacey. The father, who practiced medicine in Scottsville has passed away, but the mother survives and resides in Sioux Falls township. In 1883, when Frank E. Lacey was but six months old, the family came to South Dakota, purchasing and locating on a farm of one hundred and sixty acres on section 13, township 101, range 49, which was operated by the older brothers of our subject. Frank E. Lacey acquired his early education in the country schools and also spent two years as a student in the Baptist College of Sioux Falls. After putting aside his textbooks he turned his attention to agricultural pursuits and from the age of twenty-one until 1909 followed farming in partnership with his brother, Levi D., but during the past six years he has conducted his interests independently. He has erected all of the buildings on his farm, which is situated on section 14, Sioux Falls township. He has devoted his attention to potato culture, growing seventy-five hundred bushels annually, while during the past season he raised about six thousand bushels. Financial success has come to him in gratifying degree and he has long been widely recognized as a substantial and enterprising citizen. On the 11th of December, 1907, Mr. Lacey was united in marriage to Miss Daisy Darron, a daughter of H. H. and Emma Barron and a representative of an early pioneer family of South Dakota. They have had four children: Howard; Selden; Hugh R., who died when ten months old; and Louise. Mr. Lacey gives his political allegiance to the republican party and is now ably serving as chairman of the board of supervisors in Sioux Falls township. His religious faith is that of the Catholic church while fraternally he is identified with the Knights of Pythias, the Masons, the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks, the Woodmen and the Modern Brotherhood of America. For recreation and pleasure he indulges in hunting. He is a young man of force, ambition and enterprise and stands high in the esteem and confidence of his fellow citizens. He has served continuously in some township office since he was twenty-one years of age, as he v as assessor for two years and township clerk for three years, and is now serving his seventh year as supervisor.