BIOGRAPHIES:  Andrew J. WALLACE, Durand, Pepin Co., WI

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ANDREW J. WALLACE, hardware merchant, Durand. Came to Durand in 1860.
Enlisted in the Spring of 1861 in Co. I, 2d Minn. V. I. for one year.
Was in Buell's Army Corps in Kentucky and Tennessee. Came back to
Durand and clerked for Prindle in hardware store, and in 1867 commenced
business for himself, dealing in hardware, tinware, agricultural
implements and sewing machines, and since May, 1880, under the firm
name of Wallace & Hammond. He was born in Lower Canada, Feb. 19, 1840,
In 1857, his father, Charles Wallace, moved to Minnesota and afterward
to Durand, where he still resides. His mother (Lucy) died in Durand,
June 5, 1876, He was married, March 7, 1871 to Miss Sarah A. Fraser,
eldest daughter of John Fraser, Esq., of Durand. Mr. Wallace is a
member of the Masonic fraternity, and at present master of the Lodge in
Durand; also member of the Chapter at Menomonee, and master of the A.
O. U. W. at Durand. He has been Town Treasurer of Durand four years.

-Transcribed from the "History of Northern Wisconsin, 1881," page 702


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