William Henry Lacy

William Henry Lacy Methodist missionaries to China Born January 8, 1858 Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States Died September 3, 1925 (aged 67) Shanghai, China

William Henry Lacy (simplified Chinese: 力为廉; traditional Chinese: 力為廉; Pinyin: Lì Wéilián; Foochow Romanized: Lĭk Ùi-lièng; January 8, 1858 - September 3, 1925) was an American Methodist missionary to China.

Life

Nind-Lacy Memorial Chapel of Foochow Anglo-Chinese College, erected in 1905 in honor of Rev. William Henry Lacy and his wife Mrs. Emma Nind Lacy

William Henry Lacy was born on January 8, 1858, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He graduated from Northwestern University and the Garrett Bible Institute, and was ordained in 1883. In 1887, he was sent to Foochow as a missionary under the Board of Foreign Missions of the Methodist Episcopal Church. He and his wife Emma Nind Lacy, daughter of Mary Clarke Nind,^[1] arrived in Foochow on November 5, 1887.^[2] Rev. Lacy consequently served as a professor at the Foochow Anglo-Chinese College (福州英華書院) from 1887 to 1894, superintendent of the Anglo-Chinese Book Concern in Foochow from 1891 to 1902, senior manager from 1902 to 1906, and manager of the Methodist Publishing House in China (美華書局) in Foochow and Shanghai after 1907.

On September 3, 1925, Lacy died in Shanghai. His four sons, Walter Nind, Henry Veere, George Carleton and William Irving Lacy, and one daughter, Alice Maie Lacy (1893-1921), were also missionaries to China.

References

1. Yale Finding Aid Database: Guide to the Lacy Family Papers
2. Bashford, James W. (1906): China and Methodism p.111