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Born 1862
From Past and present of Nodaway County, Missouri (1910)
THOMAS J. WALLACE.
One of the most evident things to the thoughtful farmer is the fact that life at no stage is a bed of roses. There are thorns, and many of them, along the path of farming life, and the lucky ones are they who are pierced by the fewest and avoid the most. One of the tillers of the soil in Atchison township. Nodaway county, who has succeeded in spite of the thorns and obstacles he has encountered all along life’s uneven road is Thomas J. Wallace, who was born one mile southwest of Clearmont, in December, 1862. He is the son of J. B. Wallace, mentioned at length in the sketch of W. S. Wallace in this volume. The Wallace family has long been prominent in agricultural and stock-raising affairs of Nodaway county and Thomas J. is sustaining the reputation of the family
Mr. Wallace grew to maturity on the home farm where he was put to work in the fields when young in years. He received a good education in the public schools and at William Jewel College at Liberty, Missouri. He turned his attention to farming as a life work and has always lived on the home farm, now residing on the exact place where his father first located. He is the owner of three hundred and sixty acres of excellent land, which is well improved and has been carefully cultivated so that it has its original fertility, and abundant crops reward the labor that is now expended upon it from year to year. He has a cozy home in the midst of attractive surroundings and good out buildings.
While farming has been the chief occupation of Mr. Wallace, he has be come widely known as a breeder of fine Hereford cattle, for which he finds a very ready market owing to their excellent quality.
Mr. Wallace was married in September, 1887, to Julia M. Cason, of Nodaway county, Missouri, where her people are well established. This union has resulted in the birth of the following children: Neva was educated at the Maryville high school; Mary attended the normal at Maryville; Hazel and Johnnie are attending the home schools.
Mr. and Mrs. Wallace are members of the Baptist church, and fraternally Mr. Wallace is a Mason, belonging to the blue lodge, and was formerly a member of the chapter and the commandery. He is a Democrat, but he has never aspired to public office, having always given his entire attention to farming, although he never neglects his duty in supporting any measure that will promote the general good of his community.
As printed in Past and present of Nodaway County, Missouri (1910). See the original pages. Wording is the original; obvious scanning errors have been corrected, and a few may remain.
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