"Portrait & Biographical Record of the Willamette Valley Oregon."  Chicago:
Chapman Publishing Company, 1903. p. 1548.
 
W. D. WALLACE

     Frugal and thrifty by inheritance, W. D. Wallace, a farmer of Lane county,
located in the vicinity of Jasper, has added to his native qualities those which
come from an early contact with the world when viewed from the standpoint of a
pioneer, for he was only eight years old when his parents emigrated to the west
and the hardships and privations which followed the movement became a part of
his life. He was born in Iowa, November 21, 1844, the son of James A. Wallace,
born in 1821, and married in Illinois to Miss Irene C. Daniels, after which the
young couple located in Iowa a short time and then moved back to Illinois, and
remained until 1852. They then started across the plains with ox-teams, nearly
all of which died on the journey. Reaching Barlow's Gate Mr. Wallace succeeded
in trading the wagon for a pony and placed his wife and two younger children on
its back, himself and another child on one of the remaining oxen and packed
their provisions on another ox and a cow, when they proceeded over the
mountains. When they finally got to Foster Mr. Wallace again made an exchange,
this time securing a wagon in trade for the pony, and hitching the
cattle, a yoke of oxen and two cows, to the wagon, proceeded to the Willamette
valley, eventually locating at Jasper, where the father took up a donation claim
of three hundred and twenty acres in Lane county and made that his home until
his death, in 1868. Their first garden was cultivated by hitching one ox to a
rude plow, using ropes for tugs, and while the elder man held the plow, W. D.,
then a lad of thirteen years, guided the ox.   The death of his wife occurred in
1899. Of their six children W. D. was the first in order of birth, those
following being Marion and J. C., located in this vicinity ; Mary E.; Lucy A.
and Emma.
     W. D. Wallace remained at home until he was twenty-four years old, engaging
in the duties which fell to his lot as the son of a pioneer farmer and fitting
himself for successful work. After his marriage in 1868 he went to work for
himself, and now owns six hundred and forty acres of land, of which two hundred
is a part of the old claim of his father. He carries on stock-raising, having
cattle, sheep, horses and goats and is meeting with the success which attends
energy and application when guided by intelligent and practical ideas. His wife
was, in maidenhood, Lucinda M. Drury, a native of Missouri, who came west in
1853. The following children have blessed their union: Robert, at home; Chester,
near his childhood's home; Charles, at home; John T.; Fred: Benjamin H.;
Caroline S.; Irene M.; Nora A., and Mary B. Mr. Wallace is a member of the
Christian Church.

     
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Submitted to the Oregon Bios. Project in June 2010 by Diana Smith.  Submitter
has no additional information about the person(s) or family mentioned above.