Newaygo County MI Archives Biographies.....Wallace, Robert C. April 11, 1844 - 
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Author: Chapman Brothers

ROBERT C. WALLACE, farmer, section 33, Ashland Township, was born in the city 
of Toronto, Ca., April 11, 

1844.  His parents, William G. and Ann Wallace, were natives respectively of 
Scotland and Ireland, came to 

Canada in early life and were married in Toronto.

Mr. Wallace had the best educational advantages until he was 13 years of age, 
but the bent of his 

inclinations was toward the career of a mechanic, and he became an engineer in 
the machine shop of Alfred 

Metcalf in his native city.  He afterward went to Hamilton, Ontario, where he 
engaged in a meat market, 

associated with an uncle, and there operated until the spring of 1860, when he 
became a farmer in 

Haldimand Co., Ont.  He remained there until the fall of 1864, when he came to 
Michigan and located in 

Mecosta County, engaging in lumbering on the Muskegon River, spending the 
winter of 1864-5 in that 

occupation.  He entered the employ of Alex. Blake of Newaygo, in the summer of 
1865, where he continued 

some time, as a laborer in the common departments of the lumber business, and 
at a late period was made 

foreman of the entire lumber interest of Mr. Blake.  In the fall of 1876 he 
became foreman for the lumber 

firm of Wyman, Buswell & Co., of Grand Haven, operating in their behalf until 
the fall of 1878, when he 

settled upon a partly improved farm on section 33, Ashland Township, where he 
has since expended his time 

and nergies, with the exception of one winter.

Mr. Wallace was married Jul 18, 1876 to Mary Jane, daughter of John and Nancy 
(Austin) McIlveen.  The 

parents and daughter are natives of Ireland, where the latter was born, in the 
city of Belfast, May 12, 

1841.  They came to the United States in 1852, and after landing at New York 
proceeded westward until they 

reached Ottawa Co., Mich., where Mrs. Wallace resied until her marriage.

Mr. Wallace is a decided Republican, and is now (1884) filling his second term 
as Township Treasurer.  He 

is a prominent member of the Order of Odd Fellows and belongs to the 
subordinate Lodge, No. 362, at 

Ashland Center, and to the Encampment, No. 82 at Newaygo.  He holds the 
position of C.P. in the latter 

named body and that of M.W.G.P. in the former.

Additional Comments:
1884 Portrait & Bio Album of Newaygo Co.

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