"Portrait & Biographical Record of the Willamette Valley Oregon."  Chicago:
Chapman Publishing Company, 1903. p. 1207.
 
J. P. WALLACE, M. D.

     A more than ordinary appreciation of the possibilities of medical and
surgical science, augmented by superior elementary training and continuous
research entitles Dr. Wallace to the enviable place which he occupies in the
professional life of Linn county.  Dr. Wallace was born in Andersonville,
Anderson county, Tenn., July  24, 1852, of Scotch ancestry. His paternal
grandfather, James, was born in Virginia, and eventually became a planter in
Anderson county, where he died in 1877, while his father, Brice, born in
Anderson county, followed a similar occupation during his active life. The
father was a strong Union sympathizer during the Civil war. In 1877 he removed
to Oregon, settling on a farm near Lebanon, where he engaged in farming for many
years. At present he is retired from active life and is living with his
children. He is a Royal Arch Mason. A Democrat in politics, he served as
treasurer of Linn county for one term.  With his wife, Nancy J. (Hall) Wallace,
he attends the Baptist Church. Mrs. Wallace died near Albany in 1886 at the age
of fifty-five years. The Hall family are of English ancestry, the members of
which settled first in North Carolina, where Obadiah Hall, the father of Mrs.
Wallace, was born. He was a planter in Tennessee, and died there at an advanced
age, firm in the faith of the Baptist Church.
     The impressions most vividly recalled by Dr. Wallace of his childhood in
the south are those centered around the period of the Civil war, when his
neighborhood was ravaged by the soldiers, and life became hazardous. During that
time the schools were suspended and his education was retarded. After the war he
continued his studies at Jacksboro, Tenn., and afterward engaged in teaching for
a couple of terms in a local academy. Following close upon his teaching he
studied medicine with Dr. Charles D. Russell of Jacksboro, and after a couple of
years entered the medical department of the University of Tennessee, from which
he was graduated with first honors in the class of 1880. His scholarship was
distinguished by brilliancy and exceptional merit, in recognition of which he
received the Paul F. Eve and two other gold medals. With this creditable start
in life the doctor engaged in practice in Anderson, Tenn., and four years later,
in 1884, located in his present home in Albany, Ore. In order to keep pace with
the progress in the profession as understood by the most advanced minds in the
country he took a post-graduate course in the New York Post-Graduate Medical
School, in 1890.
     That Dr. Wallace has been successful beyond the average practitioner is
evidenced by his large land holdings in city and county, and these investments
indicate also his faith in the future of his adopted state. He is the owner of
the postoffice building in Albany, has built up residence and business property,
and owns a farm of four hundred and forty acres in Linn county. While living in
Knoxville, Tenn., he was united in marriage with Alice Tullock, born in Campbell
county. Tenn., and was educated at the Jacksboro Academy. One child has been
born of this union, Russell, now attending the Albany College, in the class of
1904. Dr. Wallace is a member of the State Medical Society and from a
professional standpoint has held many positions of trust in the community,
including membership on the pension board, a position he held for ten or twelve
years, when he resigned. Fraternally he is connected with the Woodmen of the
World, and socially with the Alco Club. The doctor is possessed of strong
personal characteristics, which render him extremely popular with all classes of
people.  Genial and optimistic, he is an ideal practitioner, understanding fully
the saving grace of tact, humor, and consideration.

     
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Submitted to the Oregon Bios. Project in June 2010 by Diana Smith.  Submitter
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