Thomas B. LACEY, M.D., of Council Bluffs, is one of the leading physicians of this city, where he located in March, 1876, and has been continually in practice since that date.

He was born in New Milford, Connecticut, in 1853. His parents were Thomas and Rachel (NOBLE) LACEY. The family emigrated to Racine, Wisconsin, from New England, and thence to Chicago, in 1863. Both the father and the paternal grandfather of the subject of this sketch were physicians. The mother survives her husband, being still a resident of Chicago. The Doctor has but one surviving brother, Fred N., a resident of Chicago, who is connected with the Pullman Palace Car Company. He lost two brothers, Arthur at the age of twenty six years, and Edward at the age of sixteen. He has one sister, Mrs. H. A. SUMMER, of Chicago.

The Doctor received his literary education at Oberlin College, Ohio, and graduated at the Chicago Medical College in 1875. The Doctor was in practice at the Soldiers' Home in Milwaukee for a year after graduation, but nearly all his professional life thus far has been spent in Council Bluffs.

Doctor LACEY is a gentleman of culture, possessing excellent literary attainments, and is recognized as one of the leading physicians of western Iowa. He is at present Medical Director of the United States Masonic Benevolent Associaton of Council Bluffs. He was associated with Drs. Macrae and Thomas as a Board of Pensioning Examiners for a period of four years.

The Doctor is a prominent Mason, having taken the higher degrees of that order.

He has a son named Thomas B., born October 12, 1880.

Contributed By: Mona Sarratt-Knight