Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1910-04-03
WALLACE. funeral
This. AFTERNOON
SERVICES OVER REMAINS OF Mr..
WALLACE Ar THE BAPTIST
49,: +" fCHURcH.
Old Timers viii Be Pail oearers-Son
10 Here -. q. A. r. and !. o. @. r.
Are Is Assist.

The funeral Of the late J. H. Wal
lace will be held from the Baptist
church this afternoon at 1880, with
Rev. Anderson of Grand Forks, con-
Quoting the service The pail bearers,
Messrs. Woods, Mckenzie, Pierce,
Fields, Carr and Williams, will meet
at the Field undertaking parlors at
2 o'clock, and from there will go to
the church. The interment will be In
the Protestant cemetery.
The body arrived Saturday in charge
of his son, who had been called here
from his home In Missouri, and from
whom it was learned that it was the
wish of the deceased that he might
be buried at Bismarck and from the
Baptist church.
Mr.. Wallace was at one time q
member of the Odd Fellows and the
G. A. R., and while he has not been
active in work for number Of years
the members Of the local branches
Of both those orders did all they could
to help out the family in making ar.
rangements for the funeral. Follow
ing is q short sketch of the HE of
the deceased:
Mr.. Wallace came from disting-
uishad ancestry-the Clans, Wallace
Montague and Douglas, having had
an important part in old world his
tory making. He was born March 10,
1886, at GAINESVILLE, Ohio, his father
being William Montague Wallace, a
distinguished statesman and soldier,
and the first man to publicly read
'The, Star Spangled Banner the
author of which, Francis Scott Key,
was his friend and fellow patriot. His
mother was Mary Dougherty, and
her father was of good old revolu-
guard Of Gen. George Washington.
Mr.. Wallace was one Of the first to
answer the call ito arms" in defense
of the Union, joining under the first
call of Governor Todd for three
months minute men. To Abraham
Lincoln's call he responded again,
joining the 14th Ohio volunteers. He
served in the Civil war three years
and nine months and was mustered
out Of the 12Sth. Ohio regiment as
first lieutenant.
Mr.. Wallace was always a pioneer
He was member of the John Brown
patty in 1856, going to Iowa at the
same time that Brown was laying the
wires for the admission of Kansas as
a free st1te-opp0sed to the. institu-
tieh of human slavery. He returned
tqDhio and stumped the state for
Lincoln for President. In 1865 he
moved to Mankato, MIMI, and was
prominent in that state. attractive citi-
zeh and a member of the Odd Fellows.
HAfame to Dakota in 1877 and lived
onM4he Col. Lounsberry homestead,
northeast Of Bismarck, a portion of
which is now occupied by the Catholic
cemetery, That's year-the following
year moving to the DR.. Porter land
northwest Of the capitol and later in
1881, taking homestead of his own
on Burnt creek.
He was a member of the territorial
council from this district in 1881 and
in 1882 and 1883 was Alex McKen-
lies right hand man in arranging the
Bur1eigh county agricultural exhibits
that won the laurels at Bill Kings
great Northwestern exposition at
Minneapolis, in competition with hun.
dreds Of county exhibits from the
northwestern states. The banners Of
honor won in those early days now
adorn the walls of the Bismarck CON-
mercial club rooms. At the Chicago
exposition, at various irrigation and
industrial congresses, he was also to
the front, and an influential and en-
thusfastic representative of Bismarck
and North Dakota, until cut down by
the saffliction that finally terminated
his earthly career.