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Donald Wallace
(1816-1902)
Harriet Lasby
(1822-1887)
Levi Joseph Patmore
(1817-1872)
Elizabeth P. Bastedo
(Abt 1826-After 1908)
John Donald Wallace
(1845-1907)
Hannah Patmore
(1847-1881)

Edward Harold Wallace
(1872-1922)

 

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Parents:
1. John Donald Wallace & Hannah Patmore
2. John Donald Wallace & Mary Larter

Spouses/Children:
1. Eleanor Dill

Edward Harold Wallace 3

  • Born: 16 Apr 1872, Ponsonby, Pilkington Twp, Wellington, Ontario, Canada
  • Marriage (1): Eleanor Dill on 27 Jul 1899 in Prescott, Pierce, Wisconsin, United States 1 2
  • Died: 26 Jun 1922, Long Beach, Los Angeles, California, United States at age 50 2 4
  • Buried: Sunnyside Cemetery, Long Beach, Los Angeles, California, United States

   Another name for Edward was Ed Wallace.

  Research Notes:

Younger brother of Maud Wallace [Healy] and William H. Wallace.
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The transcription of a typewritten autobiography by Edward H. Wallace dated 4 May 1920 follows:

A few of the changes in the
life of Edward Harold Wallace.
Facts arranged May 4, 1920.

Parents: John Donald Wallace and Hannah Patmore Wallace.

Born in a log house on a rented farm, near Ponsonby, P.O., Pilkington Tp., Wellington Co., Ontario, Canada, April 16, 1872. Children preceding, Maud, now wife of Dr. H. H. Healy, Grand Forks, North Dakota; William Havelock, executive secretary Y.M.C.A., Los Angeles. Following, Ernest Hazlewood, Attorney, New Orleans, Lewis Herbert, President First National Bank, Newport Beach, California; Charles Horace, Cashier same bank at time of death, February, 1914. In 1879 family removed to Elora [Wellington Tp, Wellington Co., Ontario, Canada], five miles distant. November 1880 to Lincoln, Nebraska residing on a farm ten miles distant until February , 1881 when removed to Drayton, North Dakota, the family exchequer consisting of $2.40. Father filed on pre-emption one mile from town to which family removed in April and mother died the next month. Three years later father returned to Canada and married Mary Larter, mother's particular friend. To this union came Gertrude, who died at the age of two years; Ella Irene, in 1887 and Maxwell Raymond, 1890.

The railroad came to Drayton in 1887. In September, 1887 went with older brother [William H. Wallace] to Hamline University, St. Paul [Minnesota], where brother had been a short time the previous year. In December father sold his land and other property at Drayton to go to Pasadena, California and go into business with his brothers Albert and Frank who had preceded him. Will and Ed joined the party in Minneapolis. Father, after arriving, decided otherwise, bought other farms at Drayton and returned in March, 1888. Will and Ed helped with the farm work and returned to Hamline in the fall. Thus they continued until they finished the preparatory course, Ed working for the Nebraska Telephone Company in Lincoln, Nebraska, for fifteen months. Both returned to Hamline and were graduated together in 1895. Both worked hard throughout the course supplementing the assistance their father could give them. The summer of [18]93 Will was conductor on street-car line in St. Paul and Ed sold papers and collected and distributed laundry at the race-track of the State Fair Grounds. In December 1895 Ed took an office position with the Amenia and Sharon Land Co. at Amenia, North Dakota, setting about diligently to learn the grain business. In 1898 he enlisted in the North Dakota regiment for Philippine service but was disqualified because of physical defect and returned to his work at Amenia. That summer he went to Prescott, Wisconsin to ask Eleanor Dill to marry him. When they were in college together he thought he loved her but went out to get started in business and learn for sure. When they found that love was mutual, things took the usual course. They became engaged July 28th and were married the following July 27th. Eleanor's Uncle, M. T. Dill, had grown old in the grain business at Prescott and, to be relieved of some of the burden, invited Wallace to join with him and two of his old-time Employees in the M. T. Dill Grain Company. This partnership was effected August 1, 1900 and continued for eight years. Here four children were born to the couple-Jean, July 10, 1900; John Donald, July 8, 1903; Marjorie, March 23, 1905 and William Dill January 5, 1907.

In Prescott Wallace took an active part in civic matters, having been the first public librarian of the City, the first Secretary of the Commercial Club, Alderman for his ward and, being President of the Council, acting mayor for some weeks on the resignation of the mayor. He was active as Trustee in the Methodist Church and kept up an active interest in alumni circles of his Alma Mater. He was President of the Alumni Association for a term, the first member of the Hamline University Board of turstees [sic] to be selected by the Alumni. At the insistence of the President he held this office after his removal to the Pacific Coast.

To Long Beach, California the family removed in July, 1908 where he took a position in the Exchange National Bank which had been organized by his brother Will. He was soon made Assistant Cashier and Director. From this position he went to the Marine Commercial and Savings Bank as Vice President in January, 1916. This bank was then about two years old, had deposits of $300,000, and was paying no dividends. Now it has deposits of two and a half millions, is paying ten percent and earning much more.

Another child, Eleanor Thompson, was born into this family January 16, 1914.

Wallace has taken a lively interest in civic affairs in Long Beach. He was a member of the East Side Improvement Association Committee that put through the purchase by the City of the two existing water companies that were giving very inferior service; he was elected to the freeholders' Committee which framed the City Charter of 1914, was four years a member of the School Board serving as Vice President and President. In Long Beach he has continued his activities in church work and several benevolent organizations. During the war he was successively private and corporal in the home-guards resigning when ordered by the surgeon to do so.

  Death Notes:

Died at home.

  Noted events in his life were:

• Graduated: Hamline University, 1895, Saint Paul, Ramsey, Minnesota, United States. 5 Ed was an assistant business manager for the 1895 edition of the Hamline yearbook, The Liner.

• Occupation: Bookkeeper at Amenia and Sharon Land Company, Dec 1895-1898, Amenia, Cass, North Dakota, United States. Ed H. Wallace appears in a photograph dated 3 Feb 1898 available from digitalhorizonsonline.org, item number 5.1.9 in the North Dakota State University Libraries, Institute for Regional Studies, described as "Ten men standing in front of building all wearing hats. Three men in the center are holding up a sign that states 'New York Buried By Blizzards. North Dakota Wears Straw Hats."

• Occupation: Partner (Secretary) at M. T. Dill Grain Company, 1 Aug 1900, Prescott, Pierce, Wisconsin, United States. This partnership continued for eight years.

• Occupation: grain and lumber dealer, 1905, Prescott, Pierce, Wisconsin, United States. 6

• Occupation: Banker.

• Occupation: Assistant Cashier and Director of Exchange National Bank, 1908-1915, Long Beach, Los Angeles, California, United States. Ed started work on 1 August 1908.

• Moved: from Wisconsin, Jul 1908, Long Beach, Los Angeles, California, United States. Since their household goods did not arrive until 20 Aug 1908, the family spent a month with Will and Mabel Wallace.

• Residence: 325 E. 9th St, Sep 1908, Long Beach, Los Angeles, California, United States.

• Elected: to the Freeholders' Committee, Abt 1914, Long Beach, Los Angeles, California, United States. This committee framed the City Charter of 1914.

• Occupation: Vice President of Marine Commercial and Savings Bank, Jan 1916, <Long Beach>, Los Angeles, California, United States.

• Residence: 2828 E. First St, 1922, Long Beach, Los Angeles, California, United States. This was his residence at the time of his death.


Edward married Eleanor Dill, daughter of Dr. Armstrong Bennett Dill and Emma Jane Breckbill, on 27 Jul 1899 in Prescott, Pierce, Wisconsin, United States.1 2 (Eleanor Dill was born in 1874 in <Dill Homestead, York Springs, Adams>, Pennsylvania, United States,2 died on 7 Jan 1956 in Los Angeles, California, United States 7 and was buried in Sunnyside Cemetery, Long Beach, Los Angeles, California, United States 8.)


Sources


1 Website:, http://files.usgwarchives.net/wi/pierce/vitals/groomvz.txt - "Pre-1907 Pierce County, Wisconsin Marriages Groom Index V-Z"
. Cit. Date: 13 Jun 2001.

2 <i>http://www.familysearch.org</i>.

3 Personal Documents, Autobiographical Sketch of Edward H. Wallace. Cit. Date: 4 May 1920.

4 <i>www.findagrave.com</i>, Find A Grave Memorial# 28092165. Cit. Date: 3 Jun 2016.

5 <i>The Liner</i> (Hamline University, St. Paul, Minn.), 1914, p. 221. Cit. Date: 12 Jan 2016. http://edu.arcasearch.com/hlc/initArcaCode.asp

6 <i>The Liner</i> (Hamline University, St. Paul, Minn.), 1905, p. 41. Cit. Date: 12 Jan 2016. http://edu.arcasearch.com/hlc/initArcaCode.asp

7 <i>FamilySearch Historical Files</i> (www.familysearch.org), "California Death Index, 1940-1997," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VGR7-V73 : accessed 17 January 2016), Breckbill in entry for Eleanor Dill Wallace, 07 Jan 1956; Department of Public Health Services, Sacramento. Cit. Date: 17 Jan 2016.

8 <i>www.findagrave.com</i>, Find A Grave Memorial# 28092169. Cit. Date: 3 Jun 2016.


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