Background
Lacy, Arthur Jay was born on September 30, 1876 in Nirvana, Lake County, Michigan, United States. Son of Francis Daniel and Eunice Amelia (Stevens) Lacy.
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Arthur Jay Lacy
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Bachelor of Laws, Valparaiso (Indiana) U., 1896, University of Michigan, 1898. Honorary Doctor of Laws, Milligan College, 1940.
Career
Admitted to Michigan bar, 1899, began practice at Clare. Mayor of Clare (4 terms), 1903-1907. Settled in Detroit, 1909.
Member Millis, Griffin and Lacy, 1912-1913. Judge Domestic Relations Circuit Court of Wayne County, Michigan, 1913-1914. Member Anderson, Wilcox, Lacy & Lawson, 1914-1947, and Wilcox, Lacy, Lawson, Kirby & Hunt, 1947-1952, of counsel, 1952-1959.
Of counsel Lacy, Lawson, Kirkby, Bolton & Hoffman, from 1959. Faculty Detroit College Law, 1913-1928. An authority on philanthropic trusts, taxation and wills.
Counsel for taxpayers in Ford Stock Valuation Income Tax Case. Counsel for donors in creating Children’s Fund of Michigan and Rackham Fund. Counsel in reorganization of Detroit Trust Company under Michigan Emergency Banking Act, of which, subject was co-author.
Director Boys’ Club (past president). Advisory board Salvation Army, Detroit. President Detroit Civil Service Commission 1917-1921.
President Lawyers Club of Detroit, 1918-1920. Democratic candidate for governor of Michigan, 1934. Honorary trustee Children’s Hospital of Michigan.
Trustee National Sanitation Foundation, Detroit Community Trust, Detroit History Society.
Membership
Member S.A.R., American, Michigan, Detroit bar associations, Newcomen Society N.A., Delta Theta Pi, other civic, and social societies. Mason.; Clubs: University of Michigan, Detroit Athletic, Detroit Golf (director, past president).
Connections
Married Beth Garwick, November 1, 1898.
