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(II) John, younger son of James and Mary Wallis, was born in 1736, in Leicester, Massachu- setts, and settled in Colerain where he was a farmer and a good citizen. He is credited upon the Massa- chusetts Revolutionary War Rolls with several years of service under various enlistments. A considerable part of this service was performed by his eldest son and namesake. In the muster roll of Captain Mc- Clellan's company of Colonel Wells' regiment of nine months recruits, in 1777, the senior John is thus described : "stature, five feet and six inches ; hair gray, age forty-one." There is a tradition re- lated by his descendants that he came to New Hamp- shire at the age of sixty years, with four of his chil- dren, and ultimately died in Franconia. Nothing can be discovered in the records of either Colerain or Franconia to establish or refute this. He was married,
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in Pelham, Massachusetts. October 31, 1761, to Agnes Lindsey. No account of his children can be found, except the four who came to New Hampshire, but it is quite probable that there were others. They were : John, William, David and Nancy. The last named was the wife of David Bronson, and resided in Landaff. About this time the spelling of the name began to be changed to its present form.
(III) David, third son of John and Agnes (Lind- sey) Wallace, was born April 18, 1770, in Colerain, Massachusetts, and died April 1, 1853, in Littleton, New Hampshire. He was one of the original pro- prietors of Franconia, this state, where he resided a few years and removed to Littleton about 1800. By occupation he was a farmer, and he was a useful and esteemed citizen. He was married, September 5, 1799, to Nancy Palmer, who was born April 15, 1774, a daughter of Aaron and Mary (Reed) Palmer. She died in December. 1851, and was survived by her husband about sixteen months. Their children were: Linzey, Daniel, Mahala, David, Hiram, Mary Ann, Solomon and Nancy. (Mention of David (2) and descendants appears in this article).
(IV) Linzey, eldest son of David and Nancy (Palmer) Wallace, was born August 26, 1800, in Littleton. His name was probably bestowed in memory of the family of his father's mother, but he changed the spelling to Linzey. His education was supplied by the public schools of his native town, and at the age of twenty-one years he removed to Ber- wick, Maine, where he was a leading citizen. He was a farmer, was a captain of the militia and for many years served as justice of the peace. He was early ordained as a local Methodist preacher, and devoted much time through life to religious labors. His last days were spent in Rochester, New Hamp- shire, where he died in 1864. He was married (first), March 1, 1821, to Abigail Gowell, daughter of Cap- tain John Gowell. She died October 2, 1825, and he was married (second), February 2, 1826, to Mary Staples. She died December 26, 1826, and he was married (third), June 28, 1827, to Martha (Keag) Gowell, widow of Ebenezer Gowell. She survived him about ten years and died in 1874. The children of his first wife were: Fanny S., Ebenezer G. and Edwin, twins, and Nancy. His second wife was the mother of one child, Mary. His third wife bore him four children, namely: Olive, Julia B., George S. and Hannah. All were born in Berwick, Maine.
(V) Ebenezer Gowell, first born son and second child of Linzey and Abigail (Gowell) Wallace, was born January 5, 1823, in Berwick, Maine, and died in Rochester, New Hampshire, August 23, 1893. At the age of seventeen he was apprenticed to Oliver Hill, of Berwick, to learn the trade of tanner and currier. His pay was forty dollars a year and his board, but by working extra hours and holidays he managed to save over a hundred dollars during his apprenticeship. After its completion he and huis twin brother Edwin, who had remained on the farm while Ebenezer G. learned his trade, went to Exeter Academy and took a full course in prepara- tion for college. While in the academy they paid their expenses by tanning calf skins during the hours which could be spared from school duties. Like most boys who work their way through school, they were diligent and bright students, and when it be- came necessary to divide the class to which they belonged, they found themselves in the first division. At the close of his school days Edwin returned home and worked summers on the farm and taught school winters, and later engaged in the leather business at Rochester, with varying success. Ebenezer G. went to Rochester and worked at his trade in the tannery
of Horne & Hall, and also at Furber's in Farmington. When he heard of the discovery of gold in Cali- fornia, and the organization of the "Bay State Com- pany," he joined the company and went to the gold fields in the spring of 1849. He met with fair success in the mines and returned after an absence of three years. After a year spent in Concord he returned to Rochester, where he was engaged in the leather business until 1858. In that year he and his brother formed the firm of E. G. & E. Wallace, tanners and curriers, each taking charge of one de- partment of the business. At first they employed six or eight hands, but in a few years they bought out the concern which had been owned by Onion & Richards, and gradually enlarged their business. After the outbreak of the Civil war they found them- selves with a stock of calf skins on their hands, for which there was no market. In order to dispose of this stock without loss they engaged in bootmaking and soon after began the shoe business on a small scale with a skillful and trusty man as manager of the shop. The business of the Wallaces grew con- stantly until it became the largest of its kind in the state. Their tannery works occupied five acres of ground, and their boot and shoe business was in two brick factories, one of three stories, thirty-six by one hundred and seventy-nine feet in dimensions, with a wing thirty-six by sixty-five feet; the other of four stories, fifty by one hundred and twenty fect in size. These were supplied with the best modern machinery operated by a steam engine of one hun- dred and twenty horse power. About four thousand pairs of shoes were turned out daily, and their goods had a high reputation for quality, style, durability and cheapness. Besides this Rochester business, they had large interests in other corporations in various parts of the country. They were men of energy, thoroughly reliable, and by their enterprises added much to the prosperity of the town.
Ebenezer G. Wallace was a Republican in politics, and served two years as representative in the legis- lature, and was a member of the constitutional con- vention of 1876. He married, May 5, 1853, Sarah E. Greenfield (see Greenfield, Il), who was born in Rochester, January 2, 1828, and died March, 1900, daughter of John and Phebe (Wentworth) Green- field. Of this marriage there were born three sons and three daughters : Albert, Sumner, Henry Ernest, Carrie Helen, Annie and Tosephine E. The third son died at the age of seventeen years. The elder daughter became the wife of Charles E. Hussey, of Wakefield and Reading, Massachusetts. The younger daughter married Dr. Robert V. Sweet, and resides in Rochester.
(VI) Albert Wallace, elder of the two sons of Ebenezer G. and Sarah E. (Greenfield) Wallace, was born at Rochester, June 6, 1854. He was edu- cated in the public schools. at the academy, South Berwick, Maine, and at Dartmouth College, grad- uating from the last named institution with the class of 1877. After completing his college course he joined his father in the extensive business of which lie was senior partner, and since the death of his father has been principally engaged with his brother in the management of the great shoe manufacturing concern founded by E. G. and E. Wallace, sixty years ago, with which he has now ( 1908) been connected thirty years. Ile is also interested in other prosperous enterprises, and is president and a director of the Page Belting Company, of Con- cord, vice-president and director of the Rochester Loan and Banking Company, and a director in the Worcester, Nashua & Rochester railroad. His in- terest in public affairs has always been positive
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and he has been elected to various positions in the government of his home city and the state. In poli- tics he is a Republican. He represented Rochester in the lower house of the legislature in 1893 and 1903, and was a member of the senate from the twelfth district in 1897, and has been a member of the Roch- ester city government for nine years. He is a mem- ber of Humane Lodge, No. 21, Free and Accepted Masons; Temple Royal Arch Chapter, No. 20; and Palestine Commandery, Knights Templar
He married (first), in Rochester, May 23, 1883, Rosalie K. Burr, of Rochester, who was born in Mercerville, 1857, daughter of M. L. and Julia E. Burr. She died September 23. 1888. He married (second), October 24, 1894, at Watertown, Fannie Swift Chadbourne, of Watertown, Massachusetts, who was born in Watertown, Massachusetts, 1867, daughter of Henry R. and Sarah Lydia (Green) Chadbourne, of Watertown. One son, Louis Burr, was born of the first wife. He is now a student in Dartmouth College. The children by the second wife are: Sarah Josephine, Eben, Dorothy, Ruth and Kathryn.
(VI) Sumner, second son of Ebenezer G. and Sarah E. (Greenfield) Wallace, was born in Ro- chester, March 7, 1856. He acquired his primary education in the public schools of Rochester, was prepared for college at the South Berwick Acad- emy, entered Dartmouth College in 1873, and grad- uated in 1877. Sumner and Albert Wallace were both bred up to the shoe business of their father and uncle, and on the death of Ebenezer G. Wal- lace in 1893. his sons succeeded to his interests which have been carried on with the same careful attention and constant success that characterized them under their father's administration. Besides his large business in Rochester, Sumner Wallace has interests in various other places. For a time he was a director in the First National Bank of Carroll, Iowa, and in the Union National Bank of Omaha, Nebraska, and a number of other financial institutions in the west. He was a director in the Concord & Montreal railroad, and in the Man- chester & Lawrence railroad. He is a director in the Great Falls Manufacturing Company, the Springfield (Missouri) Railway & Light Company, the Newport & Providence Railway Company, The Hot Springs (South Dakota) Water. Light & Power Company, and president of the Standard Rivet Company of Boston, the Austin (Texas) Traction Company, and the Loan and Banking Company of Rochester, of which he was one of the organizers, vice-president till 1894, and since that time presi- dent. In manufacturing, financial, political and so- cial circles, Mr. Wallace, like his father before him, stands for progress. He takes a lively interest in the affairs of his city, and gives generously to all deserving enterprises of a charitable, religious or an educational character. In politics he is a Republican, and represented his town in the legis- lature in 1885, and was member of Governor Rol- lin's Council from the first district. He is a mem- ber of Humane Lodge, No. 21, Free and Accepted Masons, and of Temple Royal Arch Chapter, No. 20. He is also a past grand of Kennedy Lodge, No. 57, Independent Order of Odd Fellows.
He married, January 30, 1884, at Farmington, Harriet Z. Curtis, who was born in Farmington, January 30, 1863, daughter of Ellison O. and Ma- tilda A. (White) Curtis. Of this union was born one child, Scott, July, 1886, who died October, 1901, of injuries received while playing foot hall at Groton Lawrence Academy. Mrs. Wallace died July 13, 1907.
(IV) David (2), fourth child of David and Nancy (Palmer) Wallace, was born in Littleton, New Hampshire, January 15, 1806. He was reared to agricultural pursuits, and left home at the age of eighteen years. Subsequently settling in Bristol, Maine, he devoted the active period of his life to that occupation. He attained the ripe old age of eighty-four years, and his death occurred January 21, 1890. In 1844 he married Mrs. Margaret Jones, nee Perkins, daughter of Solomon Perkins, of Bristol, Maine, and widow of Deacon J. Jones of that city. She bore him three children: Lorana, Alonzo S., M. D., and Maria E., all now living.
(V) Alonzo Stuart Wallace, M. D., second child and only son of David and Maragaret (Per- kins) (Jones) Wallace, was born in Bristol, Maine, February 17, 1847. His early education was ac- quired in the public schools, the Lincoln Academy, New Castle, Maine, and the East Maine Con- ference Seminary at Bucksport. At the age of thir- teen years he began to follow the sea during the summer season, and when seventeen years old was second mate of a bark. It was his firm intention, however, to first prepare himself for educational pursuits and then to earn a sufficient sum by teaching to defray his expenses through college. He there- fore devoted his winters to study, and so earnest was he in his endeavors to obtain rapid advance- ment, that at one time it was his custom to travel on foot ten miles to school on each Monday morn- ing and return in the same manner each Friday evening. At the age of eighteen he began to teach in his home town, teaching two terms a year, from early fall to late spring, for a period of about three years. At the age of twenty-one he was elected superintendent of Bristol schools. In 1869 he secured a position as instructor at the city reforma- tory on Deer Island, Boston Harbor, where he at- tracted the attention of Dr. Durgin, then port physician and now chairman of the board of health of Boston, who advised him to enter the medical profession. In 1872 he was a medical student at Bowdoin College. He was subsequently, however, by an urgent request of the reformatory manage- ment, induced to return to Deer Island, but shortly afterward resigned in order to resume his studies and, entering Dartmouth College, he was graduated in 1874. Accepting a position at the Insane Hos- pital in Northampton, Massachusetts, he remained there some eight months, at the expiration of which time he was appointed assistant port physician at Boston and subsequently became chief port physician. Resigning that post in 1879, he engaged in private practice in Brookline, New Hampshire, and after remaining there for a period of nine years, he re- moved to Rochester, New Hampshire, where he practiced one year and some months. In 1889 he located in Nashua, where he found a much wider and far more interesting field of operation, and he is now conducting an extensive practice in that city in both medicine and surgery. In addition to his regular practice he is connected with the Nashua Emergency Hospital. Dr. Wallace's professional society affiliations are with the Massachusetts State, the New Hampshire State, and the Nashua medical societies. He is a thirty-second degree Mason. be- longing to Ancient York Lodge, Meridian Sun Chapter, Royal Arch, Israel Hunt Council, Royal and Select Masters and St. George Commandery, Knights Templar ; he is also a member of the local lodge, Knights of Pythias, and of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, being major of the local canton, Patriarchs Militant. In his religious belief he is a Congregationalist. He married Mary Fran-
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ces Maynard of Lowell, Massachusetts, daughter of Charles Maynard. Dr. and Mrs. Wallace are the parents of four children : Arthur Lowell, M. D., an account of whom will be found below; Edith, a graduate of Mount Holyoke College, was a pro- fessor two years at Western College, Oxford, Ohio; Edna June, who is residing at home; and Ina, who is attending the Nashua high school.
(VI) Arthur Lowell Wallace, M. D., eldest child of Dr. Alonzo S. and Mary Frances ( Maynard ) Wallace, was born in Lowell, Massachusetts, Oc- tober 12, 1877 (see Wallace, V). After being graduated from the Nashua high school he entered Dartmouth College, taking his bachelor's degree with the class of 1900, and he was also a student in medicine there, being graduated with the medical class of 1903. His professional preparations were completed in Boston, where he acquired much valu- able experience and observation during a season of regular attendance at the Massachusetts Gen- eral and the Children's hospitals, and upon return to Nashua he became associated in the practice with his father.
Dr. Wallace has already demonstrated his pro- fessional ability, and is undoubtedly destined to obtain high rank as a physician. In 1904 he served as city physician, is at the present time treasurer of the Nashua Medical Society, and in addition to that body he is a member of the New Hampshire State and the Hillsboro County Medical societies and the American Medical Association, and a member of the staff of the Nashua Emergency Hospital. He also belongs to the Knights of Honor, United Order of Golden Cross and United Order of Pilgrim Fathers. He is clerk of the Good Will Institute. He married Dorotha Goss, of Wilder, Vermont, and has four children: Helen Morey, Maynard Stuart, Ruth and Miriam (twins).
(Fourth Family.)
(1) Joseph Wallace emigrated WALLACE from the north of Ireland about the year 1726, and settled among his compatriots in Londonderry, New Hampshire. He was accompanied by his wife, Margaret, his brother John, his sister Jean, and cousin Thomas. The latter married Jean and settled in Bedford. These Wallaces were the descendants of a Wallace who went from Argyleshire, Scotland, to the northi of Ireland about the year 1650. Joseph and Mar- garet Wallace, the cmigrants, were the parents of several children, all of whom, except their eldest, were born in America.
(II) William, eldest son and child of Joseph and Margaret Wallace, was born in Coleraine, Ire- land, April or July 20, 1720, and was therefore a lad of six years when he came to New Hamp- shire. He settled in Milford, this state, where he died May 24, 1793. In 1752 he married Mary Burns, daughter of John Burns, who was also an emigrant. She was born in Ireland in 1730, and died in Milford, May 8, 1815. Their children were: Joseph, who married Letitia Burns, settled in Mil- ford and reared a family. John, who married Mary Bradford and was the father of ten children. Mary, who became the wife of Israel Burnham, of Lyndeborough, New Hampshire, and had one child. William, who died unmarried. James.
(III) James, youngest son and child of Wil- liam and Mary (Burns) Wallace, was born in Milford, October 17, 1766, and died there July 23, 1828. September 19, 1786, he married for his first wife Betsey H. Kimball, who was born in Amherst, New Hampshire, December 28, 1766, dicd October 13, 1807, daughter of Major Ebenezer and Elizabeth
(Fuller) Kimball. His second wife, whom he married February 22, 1817, was Sophia Tuttle, of Littleton, Massachusetts, who was born February 22, 1780, and died in Milford, November 6, 1854. His children, all of his first union, were: James, Betsey Holton (died at the age of eleven years ), Polly, Elisha Fuller, Royal, Caroline, Rodney, Bet- sey Holton and Jane.
(IV) James (2), eldest son and child of James and Betsey H. (Kimball) Wallace, was born in Milford August 24, 1787, died August 7, 1831. He went to Pembroke, New Hampshire, prior to 1815, and was in trade there; moved to Canaan in 1817 and was in trade there. June 2, 1811, he mar- ried Mary Flint, who was born June 5, 1791, daugli- ter of John and Betsey (Fuller) Flint, of Middleton, Massachusetts, and she died October 17, 1866. Their children were: John Flint, born in Greenfield, New Hampshire, April 7, 1812, was a sailor and died about 1853. William Allen, who will be again referred to. Oscar Flint, born in Canaan, March 14, 1818, died May 27, 1842. Amelia Melvina, born December 14, 1820, died in California, March 20, 1868. Sophia Jane, born May 13, 1823, died July 5, 1842. Rodney Hilton, born February 22, 1826, died April of the same year. Harriet Olivia, born January 22, 1830, died June 4, 1904. (N. B. Amelia Melvina Wallace was the wife of Daniel G. Cum- mings and left one daughter, Clara Amelia, who was born March 14, 1846, and became the wife of George E. Rice. Mrs. Rice died in Japan, November 19, 1900, and her husband died there December 17, 1901.)
(V) William Allen, third son and child of James and Mary (Flint) Wallace, was born in Pembroke, September 28, 1815. He prepared for a collegiate course at Plymouth, but instead of enter- ing college learned the printing business and subse- quently became a journalist. For some time he was proprietor and editor of the Massachusetts Spy, which he sold in 1848, and going to California in 1850 became the owner and editor of the Los Angeles Star. Selling that property he cdited a Spanish newspaper for a time and then became connected with the Alta California of San Fran- cisco, of which he was the Washington correspond- ent during the Civil war. After the close of the rebellion he returned to his native state, and settling in Canaan turned his attention to agriculture. His pen, however, could not be wholly neglected, and it was his custom to vary the monotony of farm life by writing for the newspapers and attending to other literary work. He collected material for a history of Canaan and also for a genealogy of the Wallace family, but was not spared to complete them. Politically he was a Republican and served with ability at town clerk. His fraternal affiliations were with the Masonic Order. William Allen Wal- lace died in Canaan, February 15, 1893. He was married January 8, 1865, to Mary Duncan Currier, who was born in Canaan, November 20, 1838, and died December 25, 1898. She bore him one son, James Burns, of Canaan.
(VI) James Burns, only son of William A. and Mary D. (Currier) Wallace, was born in Canaan, August 14, 1866. He attended the public schools and Canaan Union Academy, the New Hampshire State Agricultural College at Hanover, also a preparatory school in St. Johnsbury, Ver- mont, and was graduated from Dartmouth College in 1887. Deciding to enter the legal profession he pursued the regular course at the Columbia Law School, New York City, and was admitted to thic New York bar. Locating in the metropolis he
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practiced there until 1906, when he returned to Canaan, and is now conducting a general law busi- ness in that town. Mr. Wallace was admitted to the New Hampshire bar in 1900, and is at the present time serving at judge of the Canaan police court, as a member of the school board and a trustee of the public library. He is much interested in local history and genealogy, and is engaged in completing the works begun by his father. In politics he sup- ports the Republican party. He is a prominent Mason, being a member of St. Andrew's Chapter and Washington Council, of Lebanon, Sullivan Com- mandery, of Claremont, and Bektash Temple, Order of the Mystic Shrine, of Concord. In 1880 Mr. Wallace was united in marriage with Alice Hutchin- son. who was born June 22, 1867, daughter of Lucius B. and Alice M. Hutchinson, of New York.
PARKINSON According to tradition, William and Esther (Wood) Parkinson were natives of Scotland. They were kin to the Scotch Livingstones, who settled in New York and New Jersey. In 1741, they were residents of Londonderry, Ireland. There and in that year their oldest child Henry was born. In 1744 they came to Londonderry, New Hampshire, and later removed to Princeton, New Jersey, but the date of their removal is not known. In June, 1776, William Parkinson united with others in Lon- donderry in pledging "to the utmost of their power and at the risque of their lives and fortunes, with arms to oppose the hostile proceedings of the British fleets and armies against the United Ameri- can Colonies." Whether this was William senior or junior is uncertain. William, Senior, had five sons born in this country : Aaron, Jonathan, Reuben, Sylvanus and William and five daughters: Esther, Elizabeth, Katherine, Mary and Susan.
(II) Henry Parkinson was born 1741, in Lon- donderry, Ireland, and died in Canterbury, New Hampshire, May 28, 1820, aged seventy-nine years. He removed with his parents to Londonderry, New Hampshire, in 1744, and was a graduate of Prince- ton in 1764, and is supposed to have been a teacher there for some time. In the spring of 1775 he was at Londonderry. Soon after the news of the battle of Lexington had been received, Captain George Reid marched with a company of nearly one hun- dred men from Londonderry and joined the Ameri- can forces at Medford. Henry Parkinson enlisted as a private in that company, which was embodied in the First Regiment of New Hampshire. John Stark was elected colonel, and Judge Nesmith is authority for the statement that Parkinson was chosen quartermaster at Stark's request. The two men, of the same race, companions in youth, were friends through life. While both lived it was their rule to visit each other annually.
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