Drury Lacy Jr. was the third president of
Davidson College
Davidson College is a private liberal arts college in Davidson, North Carolina. It was established in 1837 by the Concord Presbytery and named after Revolutionary War general William Lee Davidson, who was killed at the nearby Battle of Cowan†...
. A native of Virginia, he was a Presbyterian pastor at a church in
New Bern, North Carolina
New Bern, formerly called Newbern, is a city in Craven County, North Carolina, United States. As of the 2010 census it had a population of 29,524, which had risen to an estimated 29,994 as of 2019. It is the county seat of Craven County and t ...
and then in
Raleigh, North Carolina before becoming president.
As president, Davidson received a large financial commitment from a Maxwell Chambers, making Davidson the wealthiest private college in the entire South.
Lacy left Davidson in 1860 and eventually became a chaplain in the
Confederate States Army. After the war, he returned to the ministry until his death.
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Biography from the Davidson College Archives & Special CollectionsBiography from NCpedia
1802 births
1884 deaths
American Presbyterian ministers
Confederate States Army chaplains
Presidents of Davidson College
Union Presbyterian Seminary alumni
19th-century American clergy
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