The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1882-10-26
JONATHAN HASSON WAL
LACE,

Lawyer, New Lisbon, Ohio, was born in
COlumbiana county. Ohio, October 31st,
1928. His parents were Robert Wallace
and Mary HassOn. The former was born
near Belfast, Ireland, and came to
America about the beginning of the
present century, and settled in COlum-
biana county. The latter was daughter
Of Jonathan HassOn, a pioneer from
Pennsylvania to COlumbiana county,
Ohio, about the year 1905. Our subjects
father dying when he was about two
years old, he was indebted for the care
full training he received in early life,
and the liberal education he afterwards
obtained, to the thrift and energy of
his mother. Having enjoyed the facili-
ties of an English education afforded by
the common schools of the community
in which his bOyhOOd was passed, he
was placed, during his thirteenth and
fourteenth years, under the instruction
of Messrs. 0lmstead, MeClelland and
Coulter, in the Academy at Beaver, Pa.
he afterward spent some time in the
Select School at Calcutta, Ohio, taught
by Messrs. R. 8. Elliott and d. G. Reed.
In the spring Of 1843 he entered the
junior class of Washington College,
Washington, Pa, and graduated with
credit in 1874, being the youngest in a
class of twenty-five. After teaching for
a couple of years he entered, in 1916, the
law Office of Umstaetter g Stanton (tbe
latter the late E. M. Stanton, Secretary
of War; under whose instruction he con-
tinued until his admission to the bar in
1848. He was then received into law
partnership with his preceptOrs, the firm
being Umstaetter, Stanton g Wallace,
which association continued until 1851,
when it was dissolved by the removal
Of the senior partner to Pittsburgh. He
has twice been elected Prosecuting At
tOrney on the Democratic ticket, and as
a still higher mark of confidence of his
political friends, he was made their
standard bearer in the campaign of 1854,
as candidate for Congress from the
Seventeenth District, but his party being
largely in the minority, he was not
elected. He also represented his district
in the Democratic National Convention
in Chicago, in 1864, that nominated Nc
Clellan for the Presidency. In 1875 he
was nominated, without his solicitation
or knowledge, for Common Pleas Judge
of the fourth subdivision of the ninth
judicial district of the State, composed
of the counties of Carroll and COlum-
biana. He occupies leading rank at
the bar of Eastern Ohio, and has prob
ably been connected with more cases
than any other attorney in the county.
Among his criminal cases may be men
toned two of decided prominence, viz:
the Wintersgiu murder trial in 1873, in
which he was counsel for the defend
ant, and the Mead murder trial in 1875,
when he assisted the State in the prose-
cutiOn. His efforts on both these Occa-
siOns were very able, and particularly
in the Mead trial his speech was pro-
nOunced one of the finest and most con-
Vincing ever delivered in COlumbiana
county. For eight years he was MEM
Der of the New Lisbon School Board, and
for the most of this time, its President.
Mr.. Wallace is connected, by marriage,
with family distinguished alike for its
natural endOwments and patriotic valor.
His wife, with whom he was united Au-
gust 9th, I848, was Elizabeth E., fifth
daughter of the late DR.. McC90k, an
early physician of CoIumbiana county.
The issue of this union was four chill
tiTen three living, two daughters and
one son. The eldest daughter, Mary, Is
the wife of N. B. Billingsley, who, in
1874, became law partner of our sub
ject. Mr.. Wallace Is q gentleman Of
great energy and perseverance,, fine So
cial qualities, and untmpeachable in
teGrity.-Biographical Cyelopedia OF
Ohio.