Denver-Pueblo County CO Archives Biographies.....Wallace, Gurney C. 1877 - 
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Author: Wilbur Fiske Stone (1918)

GURNEY C. WALLACE, M. D.

    Dr. Gurney C. Wallace, a practicing physician and surgeon of Denver, was
born October 28, 1877, in Monroe county, Missouri, a son of the late William D.
Wallace, who was born in Kentucky, where the family was established in an early
day. He came of Scotch and Irish ancestry but for five generations
representatives of the family have been residents of America. William D. Wallace
was a merchant of Sedalia, Missouri, and spent the greater part of his life in
that state and in Illinois. In 1898, however, he came to Colorado and took up
his abode in Denver, where he remained until called to the home beyond, May 14,
1917, when seventy years of age. He married Ella Kipper, a native of Missouri,
who belonged to one of the old pioneer families of Monroe county, that state.
Her father was John Kipper, a prominent miller and merchant of Monroe county.
Mrs. Wallace passed away in June, 1908, at the age of sixty-one years, and like
her husband, her last days were spent in Denver. She had a family of two sons
and a daughter hut the latter is now deceased. The surviving brother is John
Kipper Wallace, a noted musician residing in Los Angeles, California, being well
known as a soloist on the Pacific coast.

    Dr. Wallace of this review acquired a high school education in Sedalia,
Missouri, where he was graduated with the class of 1895. He afterward completed
his studies in the University of Denver and won the M. D. degree with the class
of 1906. Subsequent to his graduation he spent eighteen months in the Denver
County Hospital and later he entered upon private practice, in which he has
since engaged. He has never specialized along a particular line but has given
his thought and attention to general practice and has by reason of his ability
built up a practice of large and gratifying proportions. For the past nine years
he has held a professorship in the Colorado College of Dental Surgery at Denver
and he is a member of the staff of Mercy Hospital and the County Hospital. He
belongs to the Medical Science Club and also has membership with the Denver City
and County Medical Society, the Colorado State Medical Society and the American
Medical Association.

    On the 27th of February, 1908, Dr. Wallace was married in Denver to Miss
Nellie Lindsley, a native of Pueblo, Colorado, and a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. F.
R. Lindsley, the father a prominent mining man and old settler of Pueblo. Mrs.
Wallace passed away May 3, 1918, in Denver, when thirty-one years of age,
leaving two children: Francis, who was born in Denver, December 8, 1909; and
Virginia, born in Denver, April 1, 1914. The home of Dr. Wallace is at No. 701
South Downing street.

    Dr. Wallace is a democrat in his political views and in Masonry he has
attained high rank in both the York and Scottish Rites. He Belongs to Albert
Pike Lodge, No. 117, A. F. & A. M.; also Denver Commandery, No. 25, K. T., and
Rocky Mountain Consistory, No. 2, S. P. R. S. He is likewise identified with the
Benevolent Protective Order of Elks, with the Knights of Pythias and with two
Greek letter fraternities, Omega Epsilon Phi and Phi Lambda Epsilon. His
religious faith is indicated by his membership in the Christian church. Dr.
Wallace has a most creditable record inasmuch as he worked his own way through
the university, playing the bass fiddle in the Broadway theatre. He thus
provided the means necessary to meet his tuition and since that time he has
steadily progressed in his chosen calling. He served in the Second Missouri
Volunteer Band during the Spanish-American war and he is a member of the
Spanish-American War Veterans. He is much interested in natural history and has
a splendid collection. He turns to hunting and fishing for diversion and for his
study of nature's handiwork. He also possesses a fine collection of arrowheads
as well as mounted specimens and is interested in everything that has to do with
the history, progress and development of the state from prehistoric times down
to the present.


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HISTORY OF COLORADO

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VOLUME III

CHICAGO
THE S. J. CLARKE PUBLISHING COMPANY
1918


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