Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1916-03-02
NOTED |OWAN DEAD
Henry Wallace, Prominent Pub.
Usher Dies While at Church
WAS VICTIM OF APOPLExY
Noted Minister, Statesman, Editor and
Author Suddenly Summoned from
Long Life Of Useful Activity
Many Years In Iowa.

Des Moines.-Henry Wallace, editor
Of Wallace's Farmer, and one of
lowa's most prominent citizens. died
suddenly while attending the closing
session Of the Laymen's Missionary
conference at the First NJ. E. church
In this city. Physicians reported
that his death was probably due to
apoplexy.
Mr.. Wallace, who was apparently In
the very best OF health, was talking
with friends before the services OPEN
ed and, suddenly, as he spoke, his
head fell forward, he gasped shortly
two or three times, and was dead
DR.. Wallace had been tremendously
interested in the missionary campaign,
and to him more than to any other
one man was due the remarkable sue
cess OF the conference.
For weeks he had devoted almost
his whole time to it, attending fire.
quent noon day meetings of leaders,
and in various other ways enlisting
the interest of others in the enter.
prise.
Although so years old, he was still
possessed of unusual bodily strength
and he threw himself into the move
ment with the whole force of his be-
Ing. More and more of late years
his great intellect had been given over
to world problems. which he believed
could only be worked out through the
spreading OF the gospel of the Prince
Of Peace. He was especially active
in promoting the University OF Cairo,
which is to be established and operat-
cd by group of Protestant churches
He was a member OF the board of di.
rectors representing the United Pres
byterian denomination.
Henry Wallace was born near West
Newton, Pa, March 10, 1886. He re-
ceived a college and theological SEM
mary education and In 1862 entered
the ministry, coming to Iowa in 1871,
when he accepted the pastorate Of
the Presbyterian church at Morning
Sun, where he remained until
1878, when Ill health necessitated his
spending the summer in Colorado and
California.
Mr.. Wallace's summers sojourn in
the west proved of little benefit and
he was forced to give UP the minis
try.
He turned to the farm and in ten
years time he was fully restored to
good health. He purchased a farm
In Adair county, moved his family to
Winterset, that his children might
have the advantages of town schools,
farm and home. winter and summer,
directing the cultivation of his land
Mr.. Wallace recognized that the I'M
attractiveness OF farm life was driving
many Of the young people to the
cities. His characteristic spirit OF
helpfulness caused him to beg;a
preaching the doctrine Of better farm
ing and farm living.
He convinced the editor of the Win
terset Madisonian he ought to devote
space to farm matter and offered to
write full page for a farm depart
ment each week without charge. Thus
began his active work as a farm jour.
nalist.
Mr.. Wallace was appointed a mem
Der Of the country life commission by
President Roosevelt.
He realized how much farmers
might do for themselves In securing
legislative enactment. local, state and
national, for their own benefit He
began discussing what might be ac-
complished for the promotion OF their
own welfare and interspersed his
writings on soil conservation. crop
rotation and livestock breeding with
appeals to the farmer to arouse the
use of his ballot for the enforcement
OF old laws and the enactment of new
ones.
In 1880 the farmer-editor severed
his connections with the Madisonian
and became part owner of the Win
terset Chronicle. He soon became
a big factor in the newspaper field OF
the state.
In 1883 he was made editor of the
Iowa Homestead, published in Des
Moines, with salary of $40 a week.
where he labored until 1895, when he
severed his connection with that pa.
per- Two years later, with his sons,
II. C. and John p. Wallace. and later
his youngest son, D. A. Wallace, he
began the publication here of Wal
laces' Farmer, which is today one of
the most widely read agricultural pub
LEGATIONS OF the country