The History of the Yakima Valley, Washington, Comprising Yakima, Kittitas and
Benton Counties, The S.J. Clarke Publishing Co., 1919, Volume II, page 862 

OLIVER W. WALLACE.

Oliver W. Wallace, owner of a fine ranch property of thirty acres in the
vicinity of Grandview, has been a resident of Yakima county since 1902, at which
time he came to the west with his parents, William and Ellen (Hartman) Wallace,
who were pioneer settlers of Iowa, establishing their home in Keokuk county,
where the birth of Oliver W. Wallace occurred on the 16th of December, 1873. He
was a young man of twenty-eight years when the family removed to the Pacific
coast. He accompanied his parents, and the father and his sons purchased sixty
acres of land one mile from the present site of Grandview. At a later period
thirty acres of this tract were sold. For a considerable period the father
remained an active factor in ranching interests in Yakima county but afterward
retired from active business and resided in Grandview to the time of his death,
which occurred in March, 1917. His widow survives and is now a resident of
Idaho.

Oliver W. Wallace was reared under the parental room with the usual experiences
of the farm-bred boy, so that he was well qualified to take up ranching
interests when he came with his parents to the west. He was associated with his
father in the development of the homestead ranch for some time and eventually
purchased the interests of the others in the property and is today the owner of
thirty acres of valuable land highly cultivated and improved. He engages in
raising corn, potatoes and hay and his large crops find a ready sale on the
market.

On the 28th of December, 1911, Mr. Wallace was married to Miss May Kissinger,
who was born in Kansas, a daughter of Boston and Clara Kissinger, now residents
of Idaho. The children of this marriage are Homer, Howard, Deloss and Clara, all
yet under the parental roof.	Mrs. Wallace is a member of the Methodist church
and a lady of many admirable qualities. In politics Mr. Wallace is an
independent republican, for while he usually supports the party, he does not
consider himself bound by party ties. he has never been ambitious to hold office
but has ever been desirous of winning success in his ranching operations, and
his close application and unabating energy are bringing hits very near to the
goal of prosperity.

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Submitted to the Washington Bios Project in January 2008 by Jeffrey L. Elmer.
Submitter has no additional information about the subject of this article.