Donald Clare Wallace [Sr.] 2
- Born: 10 Jul 1898, Belview, Redwood, Minnesota, United States 3
- Marriage (1): Bertha Pauline Lindquist on 24 Nov 1921 in Saint Paul, Ramsey, Minnesota, United States 1
- Died: 25 May 1985, Los Angeles, California, United States at age 86 4
- Buried: Sunnyside Cemetery, Long Beach, Los Angeles, California, United States 5
General Notes:
Bio dated 29 Jan 1918:
"Donald Clare Wallace was born at Belview, Redwood County, Minnesota, July 10, 1898 and was graduated from Long Beach Poly High in 1916. The fall of that year he entered the Alma Mater of his father, William H. Wallace, Hamline University, S. Paul, Minn. and throughout the season played center in a victorious foot ball team, not missing a minute of any game.
"In the spring in St. Paul he enlisted in the navy but was not called from his studies, the call coming the day after commencement. He went immediately to Goat Island, San Francisco, where he was put to work as a wireless operator, where he has been ever since, being promoted step by step until on January 5th, 1918, at the age of 19 years he was made first class petty officer. By his own study and practice while in the high school here he became an expert electrician and radio operator, constructed his own plant at his home and helping to pay his school expenses by manufacturing apparatus for other amateur operators, winding armatures, coils, etc. As an expert electrician he has been called from his work at Goat Island at different times for special work, having at one time spent two weeks on a Government light tender out in the ocean reconstructing the wireless plant and having spent several weeks at Marshall, Marin County, which is at the terminus of the oriental cable."
Research Notes:
Mother = William H. Wallace's first wife. Half-brother of Lorna Wallace (stepson of Edith Poapst).
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Transcription of a brief autobiography, typed by Donald C. Wallace when he was 19 years old:
January 29, 1918.
Donald Clare Wallace was born at Belview, Redwood County, Minnesota, July 10, 1898 and was graduated from Long Beach Poly High in 1916. The fall of that year he entered the Alma Mater of his father, William H. Wallace, Hamline University, St. Paul, Minn. and throughout the season played center in a victorious foot ball team, not missing a minute of any game.
In the spring in St. Paul he enlisted in the navy but was not called from his studies, the call coming the day after commencement. He went immediately to Goat Island, San Francisco, where he was put to work as wireless operator, where he has been ever since, being promoted step by step until on January 5th, 1918, at the age of 19 years he was made first class petty officer. By his own study and practice wile in the high school here he became an expert electrician and radio operator, constructing his own plant at his home and helping to pay his school expenses by manufacturing apparatus for other amateur operators, winding armatures, coils, etc. As an expert electrician he has been called from his work at Goat Island at different times for special work, having at one time spent two weeks on a Government light tender out in the ocean reconstructing the wireless plant and having spent several weeks at Marshall, Marin County, which is at the terminus of the oriental cable.
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Transcription of a dateless newspaper clipping, probably from a Long Beach newspaper, probably written about 1929, follows.
DON WALLACE
HAS AIR TALK
WITH EXPLORER
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Long Beach Radio Expert
Chats with Commander
Byrd in Antarctic.
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For fifteen minutes early this morning Don Wallace, well known Long Beach radio expert and operator of Station W6AM, talked with Commander Byrd at the latter's base in the Middle Antarctic, near the South Pole, conditions being unusually favorable.
"Commander Byrd expressed his pleasure at again hearing from me after an absence of three weeks," said Mr. Wallace in reporting on the radio talk. "We talked from 12:15 to 12:30 Sunday morning, and he then signed off as he was scheduled to talk with a Dollar Steamship Line station.
"Last night, according to Commander Byrd, it was 40 degrees below zero at his station, and the night was clear, with a drop curtain of variable aurora, of which he was attempting to get a motion picture.
"Saturday was warm, the thermometer reading about 10 degrees above zero, according to the explorer, and he did much needed work on the top of his radio tower, but while at work a twenty-five mile wind came up and he was glad to finish the work which he was doing on his variable antennae pulley.
"Commander Byrd reported that he now has almost all of his needed equipment in his radio laboratory, having moved it from the main building. He asked me to relay a message to Manila to a relative of one of the men belonging to his expedition."
Commander Byrd's station near the South Pole is WFA, and Mr. Wallace has been in communication with the explorer a number of times.
Noted events in his life were:
• Census: U.S, 21 Jun 1900, Belview, Redwood, Minnesota, United States. 6 1900 United States Federal Census
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Name: Wm Wallace
Home in 1900: Belview, Redwood, Minnesota
Age: 29
Birth Date: Sep 1870
Birthplace: Canada England[Canada English]
Race: White
Gender: Male
Immigration Year: 1880
Relationship to Head of House: Head
Father's Birthplace: Canada England
Mother's Birthplace: Canada England
Spouse's name: Mabel G Wallace
Marriage Year: 1897
Marital Status: Married
Years Married: 3
Household:
Wm Wallace 29 Sep 1870 Canada England White Head Banker
Mabel G Wallace 28 Apr 1872 Illinois White Wife
Donald Wallace 1 Jul 1898 Minnesota White Son
Matilda Gold 52 Jan 1848 Pennsylvania White SisterInLaw
• Census: Minnesota State, 8 Jun 1905, Redwood Falls, Redwood, Minnesota, United States. Wallace, William H, Wyoming Street, M, 34, W, Canada, Canada, Canada, Banker
Wallace, Mable G, Wyoming Street, F, 33, W, Illinois, Pennsylvania, Ohio, House Wife
Wallace, Donald C, Wyoming Street, M, 7, W, Minnesota, Canada, Illinois
Wallace, Helen, Wyoming Street, F, 3, W, Minnesota, Canada, Illinois
• Residence, Apr 1906, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States. 1043 West 36th St., Los Angeles, California
• Graduated: Long Beach Polytechnic High School, <Jun> 1916, Long Beach, Los Angeles, California, United States. Director of Junior Chamber of Commerce '16. Football '16. Track '16.
• Camped: at YMCA Camp on Catalina Island, Aug 1909, Avalon, California, United States.
• Enrolled: Hamline University, Abt Sep 1916, Saint Paul, Ramsey, Minnesota, United States. and attended until he enlisted in the Navy the following year.
• Census, 25 Apr 1910, Long Beach, Los Angeles, California, United States. 7 1910 United States Federal Census
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Name: William H Wallace
Age in 1910: 39
Estimated birth year: abt 1871
Birthplace: Canada English
Relation to Head of House: Head
Father's Birth Place: Canada English
Mother's Birth Place: Canada English
Home in 1910: Long Beach Ward 7, Los Angeles, California
Marital Status: Widowed
Race: White
Gender: Male
Household
William H Wallace 39 abt 1871 Canada English Head, VP & Manager, Bank
Donald Wallace 11 abt 1899 Minnesota Son
Helen Wallace 8 abt 1902 Minnesota Daughter
Phoebe Larton [sic] 44 abt 1866 Canada English Housekeeper
• Enlisted: United States Navy, May 1917. First assignment was as a radio operator at the Goat Island station. Next served on the submarine O-26 as Chief Petty Officer. Finally served as Chief Petty Officer on the S.S. George Washington.
• Promoted: to First Class Petty Officer in the U.S. Navy, 5 Jan 1918.
• Travel: in California, Oregon and Washington, Jul-Aug 1916, United States. Surmise based on postcards to his brother Lind.
• Discharged: from the U.S. Navy, by 11 Sep 1919. Served as Chief Petty Officer on the S.S. George Washington.
• Resumed his college education: at Hamline University, Sep 1919, Saint Paul, Ramsey, Minnesota, United States.
• Census: U.S, 1920, Long Beach, Los Angeles, California, United States. 8 Household:
William H Wallace M 49y
Edith P Wallace F 39y
Lind H Wallace M 7y
Stanley Wallace M 37
Donald C Wallace M 21y
Helen L Poapst F 69y
• Census: U.S, 7 Jan 1920, Long Beach, Los Angeles, California, United States. 9 Household:
William H Wallace, Head, M 49y, b Canada, Executive Secretary, YMCA
Edith P Wallace, Wife, F 39y, b Canada
Lind H Wallace, Son, M 7y, b California
Stanley Wallace, Son, M 37y, b California
Donald C Wallace, Son, M 21y, b Minnesota
Helen L Poapst, Mother-in-law, F 69y, b Wisconsin
• Radio Pioneer: Shortwave 9DR, 22 Feb 1922, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States. From http://earlyradiohistory.us/1922ama2.htm:
"During the latter part of February, 1922, a terrific sleet storm and blizzard visited Minnesota and near-by territory. Wire communication from Minneapolis and St. Paul, to the outside world, was completely destroyed. On the evening of February 22d, at 6 o'clock, the wire service went out of commission. Minneapolis was completely cut off from the rest of the country. No messages could reach the city, nor could any go out. The Minneapolis Tribune appealed to the University of Minnesota, which had a radio installation, and asked them to get news for its morning issue. Therefore, 9XI (those being the call letters of the University of Minnesota) attempted to get into communication with the outside world. They succeeded in communicating with 9ZS in Indianapolis, but, due to the terrific atmospheric disturbances, were unable to secure any news. At 2 o'clock in the morning, the University of Minnesota communicated with Morris MacCabe, station 9AXF, at No. 1223 Foster Ave., Chicago, Ill. Before any traffic was handled between these two stations, the Associated Press opened up line communication to Chicago by a roundabout series of connections, which took in Vancouver, Denver and St. Louis. Early on the morning of the 23d, this line also went out of commission, and with it the entire service of the American Telegraph and Telephone Company. The Telephone Company immediately set out to repair the lines, but requested that some of the Minneapolis and St. Paul amateur radio stations get in touch with Chicago. The University of Minnesota, another station with the call letters 9ZT, and Albert P. Upton, No. 2328 Taylor St., Minneapolis, Minn., all proceeded to establish communication. At 10 o'clock in the morning, the station of Donald Clair Wallace of No. 823 Snelling St., St. Paul, Minn., call letters 9DR, raised 9MF at St. Cloud, Minn., and also Ivan J. Bullock, No. 1004 North Ave., Fairmount, Minn.
"All these connections were made before noon. At noon, St. Cloud was in touch with Brainard, and also with 9BAC, some miles to the north. Fairmount had by that time gotten in touch with New Ulm, Minn., and before the end of the afternoon, a network had been established to Le Mars, Iowa. Every hour, the entire system was checked. From Le Mars, communication was had with Davenport, Iowa, and from there to Rood House, Ill. This network of amateur radio stations was the only communication to be had in the district until 4 o'clock in the afternoon, when the telephone line was reestablished. Station 9XT and 9ZT not only succeeded in getting into communication with Chicago, but copied press from the Government Station at Arlington, Va., which they turned over to the local newspapers. Mr. J. F. Carpenter of the University of Minnesota, is the manager of the City of Minneapolis for the American Radio Relay League, and it was largely due to his direction that this network was formed. He stayed at his post, routing messages and keeping the ether clear, for 40 hours without sleep."
Various feats of this sort, accomplished by the American Radio Relay League, are published in their official organ Q S T, and serve as examples of how every amateur is expected to act in cases of emergency.
• Residence: 823 Snelling St, 22 Feb 1922, Saint Paul, Ramsey, Minnesota, United States.
• Radio Pioneer: Shortwave W6AM.
• Residence, Jun 1924, Minneapolis, Hennepin, Minnesota, United States.
• Residence, by 1929, Long Beach, Los Angeles, California, United States.
• Census: U.S, 1930, Long Beach, Los Angeles, California, United States. 10 Household:
Wallace, Donald C., Head, M, W, 31, Married, b. Minnesota, Fa b. Canada-English, Mo b Illinois, Manager of radio store
Wallace, Bertha S., Wife, F, W, 31, M, b. North Dakota, Fa b Sweden, Mo b Sweden
Hutchinson, Bryce, Lodger, M, W, 45, S
Hutchinson, Edward C., Lodger, M, W, 58, M, house contractor
MacKinnon, Donald S., Lodger, M, W, 25, S
• Occupation: Manager of radio store, 1930, Los Angeles, California, United States.
• Census: U.S, 1940, Long Beach, Los Angeles, California, United States. 11 Household:
Wallace, Don C., Head, M, W, 41, M, b. Minnesota, Manager, Manufacturer representative
Wallace, Bertha, Wife, F, W, 41, M, North Dakota
Wallace, Bill, Son, M, W, 17, S, Minnesota
Wallace, Don Jr., Son, M, W, 15, S, Minnesota
Wallace, Bett [sic] Jean, Daughter, F, W, 14, S, Minnesota
• Occupation: Manager & manufacturer's representative, 1940, Los Angeles, California, United States.
• Radio Pioneer: "Radio Ranch," by 1942, Palos Verdes, Los Angeles, California, United States. "Radio Ranch" was on the Palos Verdes Penninsula surrounded by open land.
• Residence: 4214 Country Club Drive, 1942, Long Beach, Los Angeles, California, United States.
Donald married Bertha Pauline Lindquist, daughter of John B. Lindquist and Hilda Paulson, on 24 Nov 1921 in Saint Paul, Ramsey, Minnesota, United States.1 (Bertha Pauline Lindquist was born on 26 Sep 1898 in Fargo, Cass, North Dakota, United States,12 13 died on 18 Apr 1971 in Los Angeles, California, United States 14 and was buried in Sunnyside Cemetery, Long Beach, Los Angeles, California, United States 15.)
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