Biographical Sketch of John Wallace, Washington County, Missouri >From "History of Franklin, Jefferson, Washington, Crawford and Gasconade Counties", Biographical Appendix, Goodspeed Publishing Company, 1888. ********************************************************************** John Wallace was born on the "Emerald Isle," in March, 1841. His father, Thomas Wallace, and his mother, whose maiden name was Hannah Carey, were both natives of Ireland. They had nine children, seven sons and two daughters, named respectively, James, John, Thomas, Michael, Edward, William, Patrick, Bridget and Mary. James came to the United States in 1851, and enlisted in the regular army. In 1865 John immigrated to the United States, and settled in Washington County where he has since been engaged in different occupations. For the past few years he has been selling goods in Mineral Point. He owns between 600 and 700 acres of land in Washington County, besides prop- erty in other counties. He was married in 1880 to Miss Lizzie Dallen, who was born in Potosi. They have four children: Mary, Edward, Gen- evieve and John. The parents of our subject came to this country in 1868, and lived in Washington County, Mo., until their death. ==================================================================== USGENWEB NOTICE: In keeping with our policy of providing free information on the Internet, data may be used by non-commercial entities, as long as this message remains on all copied material. These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or for presentation by other persons or organizations. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material for purposes other than stated above must obtain the written consent of the file contributor. This file was contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by: Joe Miller Penny Harrell ====================================================================