HON. LYMAN LACEY, Circuit and Appellate Judge; Havana; was born in Tompkins Co., N. Y., May 9, 1832, and is a son of John and Chloe (Hurd) Lacey, the former a native of New Jersey, and the latter of New York. In 1836, the family emigrated to Michigan, and the following year came to Illinois and settled in Fulton. The subject of this sketch received his early education in the common schools of this State, and subsequently entered Illinois College, at Jacksonville, where he graduated, in 1855, with the degree of A. M. He commenced the study of law the same year, with Hon. L. B. Ross, of Lewistown, Ill., and was admitted to the bar in 1856. In October of that year he located at Havana, where he followed the profession of law till 1862, when he was elected to the Lower House of the Legislature on the Democratic ticket; is Representative of Mason and Menard Cos., and served one term. He was elected in June, 1873, Circuit Judge of the Seventeenth District, comprising the counties of Mason, Menard, Logan and De Witt. In 1877, when the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Judicial Circuits were consolidated, and designated the Seventh Judicial District, embracing, in addition to the above-named counties, Cass, Greene, Jersey, Scott and Morgan, Judge Lacey was appointed by the Supreme Court Appellate Judge of the Third or Springfield District, and, in 1879, re-appointed to serve in the Second or Ottawa District. He was re-elected Circuit Judge June 2, 1879. He was married, May 9, 1860, to Caroline A. Potter, of Beardstown, Ill., who died Sept. 12, 1863. Two children by this union, one living, Lyman, Jr. May 19, 1865, he married Mattie A. Warner, of Havana, who was born in Ohio. By this union there were six children, four of whom are living:  Charles, Frank, Mattie and Edward.



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