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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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