Whiteside County IL Archives Biographies.....Wallace, Hugh 
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Author: Portrait/Bio Album, Whiteside County IL 1885

Hugh Wallace, deceased, was born Aug. 10, 1812, in Cumberland Co., Pa. He was 
a graduate of Washington College, Pa., and read law with George Porter in 
Lancaster, Pa. On being admitted to the Bar he opened an office in Lancaster, 
where he continued to practice for a time, and then returned to his native 
county. In 1837 he came to Whiteside County, and located at Chatham, now the 
city of Sterling. The country being new and the county not yet organized, the 
law business could not be very profitable; and so he followed the business of 
farming for a few years, or until the country became more densely populated, 
when he devoted himself to his profession. As a lawyer he took high rank at 
the Bar, and when he undertook a case he determined to win at all hazards. 
Hugh Wallace was a man of energy, and in every enterprise calculated to build 
up his adopted city he was very active. To him, more than to any other man, is 
due the construction of the dam at Sterling. He served the county as a member 
of the General Assembly of the State, both in the House and Senate. He also 
served four years as a Register of the Land Office in Dixon. A leading trait 
of his character is said to have been his great hospitality. The latch-string 
of his door was always out, and his hospitality was tested by hundreds. Mr. 
Wallace was united in marriage with Miss Mary Galt, March 16, 1830. The 
following are the names of their children: James G., Agnes, Mary, Isabella, 
Elizabeth C., Kate, James M., Jesse, Hamilton and Ann Eliza. Mr. Wallace died 
Aug. 18, 1864. His widow yet resides in Sterling.

Additional Comments:
Portrait and Biographical Album of Whiteside County, Illinois, Containing Full-
page Portraits and Biographical Sketches of Prominent and Representative 
Citizens of the County. Chicago: Chapman Brothers, 1885.

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