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From: "Cathy Joynt Labath" <>
Subject: [IA-IRISH] Bio of Patrick Lacy
Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2003 18:36:58 -0600

Surnames: Lacy, Wickham, Fee

Biographical History of Pottawattamie County: Lewis Pub. Co., 1891.

Patrick Lacy, a leading business man of Council Bluffs, was born in
Ireland, in September, 1843. His father died in Ireland, and the family
removed to this country and settled in Savannah, Georgia, in 1850, where his
mother died of yellow fever about three years later.
In 1856 Mr. Lacy came to Council Bluffs with his sisters and brother,
and here remained until he was about eighteen years of age, when he left
home and started out as a teamster in a wagon train to Denver, making
several trips to and from the Bluffs. In the spring of 1863 he went to the
Colorado mines at Central City and engaged in mining, and the following year
he went to Idaho. Here, and in Montana, he spent several years, visiting
every mining camp of note in those Territories, and spending most of his
time in mining. In the fall of 1867 he returned to Council Bluffs and since
that time has been a continuous resident of that city, making several trips
at intervals throughout the West. As a citizen Mr. Lacy has been zealously
interested in the welfare of his city; was one of the charter members of the
first volunteer fire department, being its chief eight years, and a member
of it until it was superseded by the paid department, when he resigned.
Virtually he is the father of the fireman's movement in Council Bluffs. In
1878, in company with five others, he organized the State Firemen's
Association of Iowa, which is now one of the most prosperous organizations
of its kind. He has been its president three years, 1885-'87. He has also
been a member of the National Association of Fire Engineers since 1878, and
is now vice-president of Iowa.
In the political affairs of the city and county, Mr. Lacy has also
taken an active part. In 1887 he was elected by the Democratic party, a
member of the Board of Aldermen, and re-elected in 1889; has been president
of the board two years. He has been an extensive dealer in real estate in
this city; his residence is at 231 Park avenue.
Mr. Lacy is a member of the Catholic Church. He has been twice married,
the first time in 1868, to Miss Annie Wickham, the second time in 1872 to
Miss Mary Fee, of Wisconsin. To the two marriages there has been issue
eleven children, nine of whom are at present living.


Cathy Joynt Labath
The Irish in Iowa
http://www.celticcousins.net/irishiniowa/index.htm

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