Los
Angeles County
Biographies
RICHARD H. LACY
Richard H. Lacy has been prominently
identified with the commercial and manufacturing interests of Los Angeles for
about four decades. He was born at
Bolinas, Marin County, California, August 15, 1866, a son of the late William
Lacy, Sr., of Los Angeles whose story is printed elsewhere in this work. As a child he accompanied his parents on
their removal to San Diego, and when he was a lad of eleven years the family
home was established in Los Angeles. He
finished his educational training in the Los Angeles public schools, graduating
from high school after which he attended business college. Soon afterward he became associated with his
brother William in the hardware business and in sheet metal manufacture,
establishing the firm of Lacy, Ward & Company for the manufacture of steel
pipes, tanks and other sheet metal work.
From this old partnership has developed the Lacy Manufacturing Company
which was incorporated in 1898 and of which Richard Lacy has served as secretary-treasurer
and vice president and since 1932, president.
The business has had several changes of location, due to the increasing
demands upon its service, and for about a third of a century has occupied a
large tract of ground with a plant requiring the service of several hundred
employees. The business is easily one of
the largest industries in the Los Angeles district.
Richard H. Lacy was in former years
a director in the Puente Oil Company, which was organized by his father and
William Rowland. He has been a director
in Los Angeles banks, is owner of real estate, and carries his share of the
responsibilities in business and civic affairs credited to the Lacy
family. He is a member of the Los
Angeles Chamber of Commerce, the Merchants and Manufacturers Association, the
Los Angeles Athletic Club, the Midwick Country Club,
the California Club and the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. He gives his political support to the
Republican Party, was elected a trustee of the town of San Marino at its organization
in 1913 and is still serving.
On February 27, 1893, Mr. Lacy was
united in marriage to Miss Maud Sullivan.
Six children have been born to them, namely, Richard W., a mechanical
engineer; Marjorie, Mrs. Joseph Sullivan; Helen, the wife of James Fitzpatrick;
Florence, the wife of Cyrus Smith; Eleanor, now Mrs. Charles Hanna, and
Constance, wife of Robert McKay. All are
residents of southern California. There
are nine grandchildren.
Transcribed by
V. Gerald Iaquinta.
Source: California of the South
Vol. III, by John Steven McGroarty, Pages
51-52, Clarke Publ., Chicago, Los Angeles, Indianapolis. 1933.
© 2012 V. Gerald Iaquinta.
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