BIO:  Jacob R. Wallace, York County, PA

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History of York County, Pennsylvania.  John Gibson, Historical Editor.
Chicago: F. A. Battey Publishing Co., 1886.
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Part II, Biographical Sketches, Lower Windsor Township, Pg 130

JACOB R. WALLACE, Esq., second son of Jacob and Susan Wallace, of Windsor 
Township, York Co., Penn., was born February 28, 1833.  His early life was spent 
on the farm, after which he worked at the carpenter’s trade two years.  He then 
attended Millersville Normal School two years, also a select school in York, 
Penn., and in 1859 attended school at Cottage Hill.  He taught school twenty-five 
terms:  one term in Lancaster County, Penn., in 1874; sixteen terms in East 
Prospect, Penn., and eight terms in Lower Windsor Township.  During the summers 
of 1874 and 1875 he also taught a select school, to prepare teachers, with M. J. 
blessing as assistant.  He was for ten years captain of a boat on the Tide Water 
Canal.  In 1860 he was assessor in Windsor Township, in 1864 in Lower Windsor 
Township, and in 1882 in East Prospect Borough. He took the enrollment in Windsor 
Township in 1861, and the census of Windsor, Lower Windsor and East Prospect in 
1870.  In 1858 he was elected justice of the peace in Windsor Township, but 
declined to serve; and in 1874 was elected to the same office in East Prospect 
borough, and re-elected in 1879 and 1884.  He is a surveyor and conveyancer, is a 
director of the Loan and Building Association of Frystown, and agent for the 
York, Spring Garden and Dallastown Insurance Companies.  He is a Republican, was 
a candidate for auditor and was a delegate to the State convention, nominating H. 
M. Hoyt, for governor.  He was treasurer for the County Institute for nine or ten 
years, and four years a member of the committee on permanent certificates.  He 
has been secretary for the town council of the borough of East Prospect since the 
spring of 1875, and is secretary of the school board of East Prospect.  In 1857 
he married Susan, daughter of William and Magdalena Sprenkle, of Chanceford 
Township, and by this union they have two children:  Linnie A., born October 20, 
1862, and Florence Eugenia, born October 18, 1868.  Mr. Wallace is a member of 
Winona Lodge No. 944, I. O. O. F., of East Prospect.