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Major Lacey, the Boone and Crockett Club, by its executive com- 

 mittee, directs that this minute be entered on its records, and 

 that a copy of it be sent to Major Lacey 's widow. 



MAHASKA COUNTY BAK ASSOCIATION * 



Mahaska County Bar Association met in special ses- 

 sion at the court room in Oskaloosa, Monday, October 13, 

 1913, in honor of the late Major John Fletcher Lacey, one 

 of its members, who was called suddenly to his reward, 

 Monday, September 29th. Judge K. E. Willcockson, of 

 Sigourney, had adjourned court for the afternoon, that 

 the memorial program might have what time was desired. 

 George C. True, president of the bar association, called 

 for order about two o'clock and the chair was addressed 

 by George W. Seevers, chairman of the committee on 

 resolutions. 



James A. Devitt followed and eulogized the departed 

 member in tribute at once touching and eloquent, and read 

 the following letter from John C. Williams, of Florida, 

 late of the local bar. 

 To the Honorable Judge of the District Court and members of 



the Oskaloosa bar: 



To the many tributes that have been given, I wish to add my 

 simple one to the memory of Major Lacey. I first became ac- 

 quainted with him in my young manhood days and the friend- 

 ship formed at that time remained unbroken till his death. No 

 one could know Major Lacey that did not admire and respect 

 him. His professional life was marked by a splendid ability 

 and perfect integrity. His political life embraced many years 

 in Congress and his devotion to his party and belief in its polit- 

 ical policies was of the highest order. In all the stormy times 

 of his political career and in the strenuous battles that he waged, 

 it can be said to his lasting honor and credit that not a breath of 

 scandal was breathed against him, and when he left political life 

 he left it as pure and as clean as when he entered it. 



i From pamphlet issued by the Oskaloosa (Iowa) Daily Herald, 1913. 



