History of the great Northwest and its men of progress : a select list of biographical sketches and portraits of the leaders in business, professional and official life . , and GussieLeigh Wilcox, B. S., now ilrs. Charles DavisHowe, married October 1900. WALLACE, James, president of Macales-ter College, is of Scotch-Irish descent. Hisfather, Benjamin Wallace, came to this coun-try with his father, William, from Cooks-town, northern Ii*eland, in 1812, when onlytwelve years of age, and settled in Juniatacounty. Pa. In 1825 he emigrated to Woos-ter, Wayne county. Ohio, and devoted him-self to
History of the great Northwest and its men of progress : a select list of biographical sketches and portraits of the leaders in business, professional and official life . , and GussieLeigh Wilcox, B. S., now ilrs. Charles DavisHowe, married October 1900. WALLACE, James, president of Macales-ter College, is of Scotch-Irish descent. Hisfather, Benjamin Wallace, came to this coun-try with his father, William, from Cooks-town, northern Ii*eland, in 1812, when onlytwelve years of age, and settled in Juniatacounty. Pa. In 1825 he emigrated to Woos-ter, Wayne county. Ohio, and devoted him-self to farming. In this pursuit he steadilyprosjiered, and when he died at the advancedage of 87 he was one of the most well-to-dofarmers of his home county. He was a manof excellent mind, of sterling integrity, muchforce of character, deeply interested in mat-ters ])olitical and religious. For nearly three-(|uarters of a century he was a leading elderin the Ihiited Presbyterian church of Woos-ter, Oliio, and even early in the fifties he hadattained considerable notoriety in the com-munity for his strenuous ojtposition to slav-ery. He was an ardent supporter of the gov-. .IAMi;S :. eminent in the <i\il War and contributedmoney lilierally to help his county secure itsneeded quota of men. He had four brothers:^^illiam, who died at the old homestead : -Idlin. :i Iresbyierian minis-ter; James, a furniture dealer of , father of Dr. J. P. Wallace and of JudgeWilliam De ^^itt Wallace, and Robert, afarmer, wim lixcd lo llie advanced age of mother of our siibjeil, .Janet Bruce, cameto this country with her parents from Scot-land (near p]dinburghi, about 1840, and lo-cat(-d at ^^ooster, Ohio. Her brother Will-iam was, afterward, for several years, pro-fessor of the(dogy in Xenia (Ohio) Theolog-ical Seminary, and her youngest , has been for many years Cnited Statesdistrict judge of northern Alabama. Shewas a woman of ipiick mind, great
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