IN MEMORY OF MAJOR LACEY J 



Mr. President and Members of the Bar Association: 



A year ago I was unable to be present at the meeting 

 of the State Bar Association, by reason of professional 

 engagements in which Major Lacey and myself were 

 mutually interested. After the adjournment of the Bar 

 Association at Sioux City, by arrangement I met Major 

 Lacey in Chicago. We went east on a business trip, and 

 I am sure that the members of the association who were 

 present and conferred upon Major Lacey the honor of 

 the presidency of the association, would have been pleased 

 to know with what high sense of appreciation Major 

 Lacey received the honor. He stated to me that he did 

 not believe that any political honor that had come to him 

 had touched his sense of appreciation as much as his 

 election as president of this association. 



It was my good fortune to become acquainted with 

 Major Lacey when I was a young lawyer. Leaving law 

 school I went to Oskaloosa and I sat down and waited 

 for clients. During the years that elapsed prior to Ma- 

 jor Lacey 's death I was closely associated with him, and 

 during all of those years I learned to respect and honor 

 him for his inherent worth. 



As a young lawyer I frequently called upon Major 

 Lacey to assist me in the trial of cases, and there can be 

 no better test of the courtesy and dignity of a lawyer than 

 the older lawyer who is called by his young and inexpe- 

 rienced associate, and in all these relations I found Major 



i Address delivered by Hon. James A. Devitt, of Oskaloosa, before the 

 State Bar Association at Cedar Eapids, June 25, 1914. 



