Counties of Morgan, Monroe and Brown, Indiana. Historical and Biographical.
Charles Blanchard, Editor. Chicago: F. A. Battey & Co., Publishers, 1884. 

MORGAN COUNTY
ADAMS TOWNSHIP
PAGE 323

JAMES WALLACE, farmer and stock-dealer, was born in Adams Town-
ship, Morgan County, Ind., October 21, 1837, and is the third child in a 
family of eleven children born to Elijah and Melvina (Manley) Wallace,
natives of East Tennessee, and of Irish and English descent respectively.
Elijah Wallace received only a limited education at the subscription schools
taught in the rude log schoolhouses of the East Tenessee frontier.  Here he
was also married, and soon after, in 1834, came to what was then Adams
Township, Morgan Co., Ind., but is not included in Hendricks County.
Here he bought and entered some 200 acres of land, which he partially 
improved, and afterward sold and bought other lands in the same town-
ship, where he has since improved a farm to which he added until he was
the owner of some 2,000 acres in Putnam, Morgan and Hendricks Counties,
Ind., a part of which he has since deeded to his children.  He now lives in
Hendricks County, and is in his seventy-fourth year.  His father, David
Wallace, was a veteran of the war of 1812.  James Wallace, the subject,
received a fair common school education, and was employed on the home
farm until he was twenty-one years old, afterward farming on shares for
some four years.  He then bought a farm of 190 acres in Adams Township,
Morgan Co., Ind.  upon which he still resides.   The farm is well improved
and Mr. Wallace has given especial attention to breeding fine stock, espec-
ially Norman horses, Poland-China hogs and Cotswold sheep.  He is now
serving his second term as Trustee of Adams Township.   He was first
married March 21, 1861, to Rebecca Allee, a native of Putnam County, Ind.
To this union were born seven children, three sons and four daughters, all of 
whom are yet living.  Mrs. Rebbeca Wallace died March 5, 1879.  She was
a member of the Church of God.  Mr. Wallace was next married June 15,
1882, to Mrs. Mary A. (Pike) McFadden, a native of Hendricks County,
Ind.  One daughter has blessed their union--Hattie M.  In politics, Mr. 
Wallace is a Democrat.

Data Entry Volunteer:  Diana Flynn 

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