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Joseph Wallace

Hardin County

JOSEPH WALLACE

The committee appointed to prepare a memorial commemorating the life and public service of the Honorable Joseph Wallace, former State Senator from Hardin County, Iowa, submitted the following:

Joseph Wallace was born in County Tyrone, Ireland, January 26, 1858, and came to the United States with his parents when he was eight years old, settling in Marshall County, Iowa, where he attended school and later taught school. He went to Union, in Hardin County, in the capacity of school teacher, while a young man, and later became superintendent of schools there. Still later he went to Waseca, Minnesota, as superintendent of schools, remaining there until 1879 when he returned to Union and engaged in farming and cattle feeding. During his residence in Union he was elected to the County Board of Supervisors, and was a member of the board in 1893 when the present court house was built. Mr. Wallace was the last surviving member of the board which built the court house.

Following his service as a member of the Board of Supervisors, Mr. Wallace was elected to the Iowa Senate from the Hardin-Hamilton-Wright district and served during the Twenty-seventh and Twenty-eighth sessions.

Joseph Wallace died at his home in Long Beach, California, Sunday evening, March 12, 1933. He is survived by his wife, who was formerly Florence Doty of Union, his daughter, Mrs. Mabel Wallace Huston, and a son, Bruce Graham Wallace, all of Long Beach, California. Mr. Wallace was a splendid citizen and a conscientious, hard working legislator during his membership in the Senate.

In the passing of the Honorable Joseph Wallace, the state has lost a valuable and honored citizen, a man of strong character and sterling worth; and the Senate of Iowa by this memorial tenders its sympathy to his wife and his immediate family who survive.

The committee directs that a copy of this memorial be spread upon the Journal of the Senate as an expression of the life and worth of the deceased, and an engrossed copy hereof be transmitted to his wife and his immediate family.

IRVING H. KNUDSON,

EDW. J. WENNER,

WM. MCARTHUR,

Committee.

Senate District 37