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MCE, PAPERS (lG5h-192 9)
Raleigh, North Carolina
>1850-1929
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Pf! 233-1-233.8
Physical Description: Broadsides, sketches, statements, receipts,
advertisements, affidavits, bills, newspapers, and letters- 1,1:27 items.
Diaries and memorandum books. 30 notebooks.
Acquisition: Gift nf Mrs. Benjamin R. Lacy, Raleigh, North Carolina.
April 1, 1936.
Description: Benjamin Rice Lacy, son of Reverend Drury and Mary Rice
Lacy, was born in Raleigh, June 19, 3.85b. After attending Graves
Preparatory School in Graham and the Bingham School at Mebane, he
stopped school to help support his family. He began an apprenticeship
as. a locomotive engineer, followed by sixteen years as an engineer and
two as a shop foreman. An active member of the Brotherhood of Locomotive
Engineers, he continued his interest in that organization and in labor
throughout Iris life.
Lacy was appointed State Commissioner of Labor and Printing
in 189b and remained in that office until his election as State. Treasurer
in 1900. For 29 years he served as Treasurer, his career ending with
his death. .
. Treasurer Lacy was called on to act as financial officer
for numerous non-paying, charitable, and church organizations. He was : V".
always active in community and State affairs - deacon of the First.
Presbyterian Church in Raleigh, trustee for Davidson College (which •••., f ''
recognized his services with an honorary LLD in 1928), city alderman, •• ,
member of the Aycock Memorial Commission, and defense committees . in
World War I, and was an active participant in the Masons, Oddfellows,
and Jr. 0. U. A. M. He married Mary Burwell and they had seven children.
One son, Presbyterian minister Benjamin Lacy, Jr., became president of
the Presbyterian theological seminary in Richmond.
