Los Angeles County, CA, Biographies

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WILLIAM LACY, JR.
 
LACY, WARD & CO., 
 
manufacturers of sheet-iron, well and water pipe, factory in East Los Angeles, 
on Lecouver street, was established in 1883, under the name of the Lacy & Verick 
Hardware Company. This company carried on the business until 1886, when it was 
succeeded by the present firm of Lacy, Ward & Co., in the manufacture of riveted 
iron and steel pipe and also the manufacture of iron tanks for storing oil in 
Los Angeles and far the Puente Oil Company. This firm has executed some of the 
largest and heaviest piping contracts in Southern California. Among them are 
five miles of large pipe for the city water works of Los Angeles, six miles of 
thirteen-inch pipe for the Mound City Land and Water Company at Riverside, three 
miles of pipe for the National Soldiers' Home at Santa Monica. This company also 
operates a factory at San Diego, which has just completed eight miles of 
fifteen-inch pipe to conduct the water of the great San Diego flume to the city. 
They have the most extensive works in this line in Southern California, with 
ample capacity to turn out contracts of any size. The works of the company are 
located in East Los Angeles on Lecouver street, giving employment to from fifty 
to seventy-five hands. William Lacy, Jr., of this firm, is a native of 
California, born November 12, 1864. His parents, William Lacy and Isabella 
(Regg) Lacy, are both natives of England. He received his education in the 
common and high schools of his native State. After leaving school he served an 
apprenticeship of three years in the sheet metal business, and since then has 
been actively identified with the management of the business, and has a 
practical knowledge of every detail connected therewith. It is owing to his 
ability and energy that the business of the company is being so rapidly 
extended.
 
An Illustrated History of Los Angeles County, California �  Chicago, The Lewis 
Publishing Company, 1889   Page 537
Transcribed by Kathy Sedler