I am making a collection of Autographs of the prominent and public men and women of the country.
I would esteem it a great favor if you will attach your Autograph to the enclosed card, and return to me in the within stamped envelope.
Yours, Very Respectfuly, WILLIAM L. DeLACEY,2 Poughkeepsie, New York. loc.01441.002_large.jpgCorrespondent:
William Louis DeLacey
(1845–1908) was a sixteen-year-old soldier in the Civil War who later
became a prominent pension lawyer and a printer. He also edited the Amenia Times newspaper in Amenia, New York. He married
Weltha A. Wiley in 1868, and together they had three sons, George W. DeLacey,
Charles DeLacey, and William Louis DeLacey. After Weltha died in 1898, DeLacey
married Anna J. Hull in 1899.