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Centennial History of Grant County, Indiana 1812-1912, Vol. II
Compiled from the Records of the Grant County Historical Society,
Archives of the County, Data of Personal Interviews, and
Other Authentic Sources of Local Information
pub. Lewis Publishing Company, Chicago and New York - 1914


      Pg. 675-676

      JOHN M. WALLACE, SR.

      From the date of its organization down to the present time Grant County
      has been continuously honored and benefited by the presence within her
      borders of the WALLACE family. In the character of its individual members
      and in their public services no family in the county probably has been
      more distinguished and it is impossible to estimate the strength and
      diversity of the influences which emanate from such a family and affect
      the social and business affairs of the county even to its most remote
      bounds.

      A representative in the present generation of this well known old family,
      JOHN M. WALLACE, SR., has been for many years a prominent business man of
      Marion, in which city he was born May 9, 1853. His parents were JOHN M.
      and MARIAM C. (WEEKS) WALLACE, the father a native of Connersville,
      Indiana, and the mother of Rutland, Vermont. The date of the family
      settlement in Grant county was either 1829 or 1831, so that the family was
      here in ample time to become charter members of the newly organized Grant
      County. Their location was in Marion, and the elder JOHN M. WALLACE grew
      up in that city, and entered the profession of law, in which he acquired
      distinction and success. He was at one time judge of the common pleas
      court of this county. During the Mexican war he saw service as captain of
      his company, and during the Civil war he served as adjutant general of
      Indiana under GOVERNOR OLIVER P. MORTON, Indiana's famous war governor.
      At the close of the war he was given the rank of colonel. He was then
      appointed and served for a time as paymaster in the United States Army,
      with headquarters at Washington, D. C.  COL. WALLACE was an uncle of
      GENERAL LEW WALLACE, the eminent soldier, statesman and author of Indiana.
      He was a brother of DAVID WALLACE who was one time governor of Indiana.
      Another brother was governor of Washington territory, and secretary of the
      state of Iowa. Probably no better citizen ever lived in Marion than the
      late COL. JOHN M. WALLACE. He was first in every enterprise that had for
      its objective the advancement of the community, and by his achievements
      and character earned the lasting esteem of all who came within the circle
      of his acquaintance. His death occurred in Marion in 1866. Of the four
      children born to himself and wife two are living, one being L. A. WALLACE
      of Marion, and the other JOHN M., whose named heads this article. JOHN M.
      WALLACE attained his early education in the public schools of Marion, and
      on entering into active relations with the business of the city, he became
      one of the owners and publishers of the Marion Democrat, a newspaper with
      which his name was associated for a number of years. He was then clerk in
      the government service for a time, and about twenty-five years ago estab-
      lished the present music house which bears his name and which is one of
      the largest establishments of the kind in the state. This firm deals in
      all kinds of musical merchandise and has a trade that is much more than
      local through the city or counties.

      MR. WALLACE in 1872 married MISS EMMA L. TODEBUSH of St. Louis, Missouri.
      Their two children are MRS. KENTON M. WIGGER of Marion; and JOHN M.
      WALLACE, JR., who is associated with his father in business. MR. WALLACE
      is a member of the Marion Golf Club and in politics is a Democrat, one of
      the most influential members of his party.

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