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BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH
                                                             Of
                                                   M⸫W⸫ Oliver P. Lacy

                                                         1879-1880

                                               Oliver Perry Lacy, a public official and a Past Master of Walla
                                               Walla Lodge, No. 7, was elected as our leader in 1879. He was
                                               born Feb. 5, 1835 at Aurora, Ohio, and came to Walla Walla in
                                               1861. He occupied various civil offices in his city and in the
                                               Territory with “honor to himself and fidelity to the people.”

                                               He was a Territorial Legislator for a season and a member of the
                                               Constitutional Convention of 1876. Walla Walla Lodge raised
                                               him in 1873, and he served as its Master in 1875, and as Deputy
                                               Grand Master in that year. He died in Walla Walla on October
                                               28, 1884.
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