WALLACE, Alexander M.

WALLACE, TRAVER

Posted By: Administrator
Date: 12/9/2001 at 10:23:32

BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES OF De Witt TWP.
From the book "The History of Clinton County Iowa" by L. P. Allen (1879) pgs 736-751

ALEXANDER M. WALLACE, farmer, Sec. 22; P.O. De Witt; born in Guernsey Co., Ohio, in 1840; he removed to Illinois in 1862; came to De Witt Township and bought his present farm of 190 acres in the fall of 1865; his parents, Thomas and Jane B. Wallace, came to De Witt Township from Illinois in the spring of 1866; his father, Thomas Wallace, died Oct. 31, 1872, aged 60 years; his mother, Jane R. Wallace, died Jan. 1,1868, aged 58 years 2 months and 20 days. He married, March, 1869, Mary A. Traver, of De Witt Township; have five children- Martha J., Harland M., Herman B., Elmer P. and Nannie M. Mr. Wallace enlisted in the 1st Ohio V. Cav. in 1861; served one year; discharged for disability.