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Author: The S. J. Clarke Publishing Company

History of the Columbia River Valley From The Dalles to the Sea, Volume II, 
Pages 133 - 134

	GUY LYMAN WALLACE.  The sterling traits of his Scotch ancestors are 
manifest in the career of Guy Lyman Wallace, a successful lawyer, who has 
practiced in Portland for a period of twenty years.  He was born February 3, 
1875, in Cortland, New York, and is a scion of one of the old families of that 
state.  His grandfather, Lyman Wallace (II), was a native of Scotland and when 
a child was brought to American by his father, Lyman Wallace (I), who cast in 
his lot with the early settlers of White Plains, New York.  There his son, 
Henry E. Wallace, was born in 1849 and when a young man he located in 
Cortland.  In that city he married Miss Harriette E. Miller and they became 
the parents of Guy Lyman Wallace.  Henry E. Wallace followed the profession of 
engineering and also achieved prominence as a contractor, contributing 
materially toward Cortland’s upbuilding and improvement.  He passed away in 
that city in 1885 and his wife’s death occurred in 1882.
	Guy L. Wallace was a pupil in the public schools of Cortland and 
attended Cornell University at Ithaca, New York, for a year.  He completed a 
course in law and in 1897 was admitted to the New York bar, also qualifying 
for practice in Minnesota.  In February, 1898, he opened a law office in 
Fargo, North Dakota, where he spent ten years, and since 1908 has followed his 
profession in Portland.  He specializes in corporation law, excelling in that 
branch of jurisprudence, and his clientele is large and remunerative.  To the 
preparation of his cases he devotes much time and study and in their 
presentation he is clear, logical and convincing.  In 1909 he organized the 
Commercial Underwriters Insurance Company, of which he was president and 
general manager until 1916, and is now a director of the Hackett Digger 
Company and the Oregon City Sand & Gravel Company.
	On the 4th of December, 1909, Mr. Wallace was united in marriage to 
Mrs. Marie Dewey Smith, nee Duncan, of Fargo, North Dakota.  They are 
affiliated with the Presbyterian church and in politics Mr. Wallace is a 
republican.  For about a year he was United States commissioner for the Fargo 
district and in 1898 was made referee in bankruptcy for North Dakota, serving 
until 1906.  He is identified with the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks and 
the County and State Bar Associations.  Mr. Wallace holds to high standards in 
the field of professional service and has faithfully and efficiently 
discharged every trust reposed in him, whether of a public or private nature, 
thus winning and retaining the esteem and confidence of his fellowmen.


Additional Comments:
History of the Columbia River Valley From The Dalles to the Sea, Volume II, 
Chicago, The S. J. Clarke Publishing Company, 1928.


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