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Title: A history of Texas and Texans
Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: Johnson, Francis White, 1799-1884 Barker, Eugene Campbell, 1874-1956, ed Winkler, Ernest William, 1875-1960
Subjects: Texas -- History Texas -- Biography
Publisher: Chicago, American Historical Society
Contributing Library: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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wards promising careers of usefulness. Dr. Lacev is affiliated with the Masonic Order, the In-dependent Order of Odd Fellows and the Knights ofPythias. In 1878, with Dr. Swearingen and Dr. iian-ning. Dr. Lacev was one of the Texas jdiysicians ap-pointed by the Howard Association to go to the reliefof sufferers of the yellow fever plague at Memphis, Ten-nessee, and bravelv risked his life in a service that wasas hayardous as that of the army in time of war. Dr.Lacey has recently invented a sanitary mouthpiece forthe telephone, which has been patented and is regardedbv the scientific world as an invention certain to be ofgreat service lr\ jireventing communicable diseases thatmay be placed to the present common mouthpiece, andit is the first successful invention of the kind ever made.Dr. Lacey has four brothers who are residents of Texas,namely: J. S. and Calvin, whose homes are in San An-tonio; Telephus, in Henderson, and Samuel HoustonLacey, of Dallas. Calvin and Telephus we both sol-
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TEXAS AND TEXANS 2117 diers in tlie Confederate army, Calvin being with thearmy of Lee in Virginia. Dr. Laee.y s home is at 2211Speedway, and his office at 700 Congress avenue. Col. Patrick Andrew McCaktht, civil engineer and•builder of railroads and one of the best knovin men inTexas in engineering circles, was born in Champaigncounty, Illinois, on March 3, 1859. He is a son of Daniel nd OatlieIreland,killed b,boy, an (Fitzgerald) MeCi thy, both natives of Till fiitluT was a railioa.l contractor, who was itiiiiiL; III l.s7i), \\licii tlir sul.jeet was a young > li. H.-is tliiuwii ii;Miii Ins own resources at Mtliir lioys are l.ieiny ruicfnlly looked after (cil. Mif .irtliy got a start toward his profession byWill km- :i- a youth for the engineers who were engagedin liuilJing the old Indianapolis, Decatur & WesternEaihvay across Illinois, and for several years he workedon lailroad and bridge construction in Indiana, Illinoisand Minnesota. He located in Lufkin, in Angelinacoun

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