WALLIS BIOGRAPHIES, Henry County, Missouri
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WALLIS, J. R.
source: 1919 History of Henry Co MO, Uel W. Lamkin, Historical Publishing Co - 
page: 314
residence: Clinton, Henry Co, MO

Dr. J. R. Wallis, a prominent physician and surgeon of Clinton, Missouri, was born 
at Marshfield, Missouri, January 18, 1860. He is a son of Dr. C. S. and Elizabeth 
(Hoover) Wallis. Dr. C. S. Wallis, the father, was a pioneer physician of Missouri 
and practiced his profession at Marshfield for over fifty years. He was a native 
of Columbia, Tennessee, and came to Missouri in 1844. He died in 1903, aged 
seventy-four years. His wife was a native of North Carolina. She departed this 
life in 1905, aged seventy-three years. They were the parents of ten children, six 
of whom are living as follow: Sarah Elizabeth, married Samuel N. Dickey, an 
attorney at law of Marshfield, Missouri; Dr. J. R., the subject of this sketch; 
Emma, is the widow of Emmet Ming and she now resides at San Antonio, Texas; 
Sophia, the widow of Harry Fyan, Marshfield, Missouri; Hattie, the wife of J. L. 
Pipkin, Marshfield, Missouri, and Dolly, the wife of W. H. McMahan, Marshfield, 
Missouri. Dr. J. R. Wallis received his preparatory education in the public schools 
of his native town, and entered the Washington University at St. Louis, Missouri, 
where he was graduated with a degree of Doctor of Medicine in 1883. He then 
entered the Bellevue Hospital Medical College, New York City, where he also was 
graduated with a degree of Doctor of Medicine in 1884. After practicing for one 
year in Marshfield, Missouri, he came to Henry County and located at La Due and 
after five years went to Montrose, where he was engaged in practice for fifteen 
years. In 1905 he removed to Clinton. Dr. Wallis' removal from La Due and 
Montrose by no means meant that he had given up his practice in that section of 
the county. He merely extended his field of operation, and since coming to Clinton 
he has continued to treat many of his old patients in the vicinity of La Due and 
Montrose. Dr. Wallis was united in marriage in 1884 with Miss Frances Ming of 
Washington, Missouri. She is a daughter of Judge James N. Ming and Jemima 
(Osborn) Ming, both of whom are now deceased. To Dr. and Mrs. Wallis has been 
born one child, Elizabeth, now the wife of James Parks, a well known attorney of 
Clinton, who is associated with his father, Peyton Parks, in the practice of his 
profession. Dr. Wallis belongs to a family notable for its great number of 
physicians. Not only his father, but two of his father's brothers were physicians, 
and a number of their sons, cousins of Dr. Wallis, are also physicians. Dr. Wallis 
has never ceased being a hard student of the science of his profession and has 
taken a number of post-graduate courses. He has done post-graduate work in the 
St. Louis Post-Graduate School of Medicine and has also taken a post-graduate 
course in the Polyclinic Medical School of New York City. He is a member of the 
County, State and American Medical Societies and the Southern Medical Society. 
He holds membership in the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks and he is a 
member of the Methodist Church, South. He is a Democrat.

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