Wallace, Reuben, 1778-1855

Scope and Content From the Collection: Series I, Reuben Wallace, contains information on the first generation of the Wallace family to settle in Champaign and Clark counties at the beginning of the nineteenth century. Subseries I-A, Documents, includes material concerning his work as a justice of the peace and as a state legislator. It also includes financial records, indentures, wills and receipts both for Reuben Wallace and for his father, Thomas Wallace, as well as information about the 1839 Quarterly Conference of the Troy...

Scope and Content From the Collection: Series I, Reuben Wallace, contains information on the first generation of the Wallace family to settle in Champaign and Clark counties at the beginning of the nineteenth century. Subseries I-A, Documents, includes material concerning his work as a justice of the peace and as a state legislator. It also includes financial records, indentures, wills and receipts both for Reuben Wallace and for his father, Thomas Wallace, as well as information about the 1839 Quarterly Conference of the Troy...

Abstract

The Wallace Family Papers chronicle the history of more than five generations of a farming family in Clark County, Ohio, during the nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first centuries. The collection provides an almost continuous history of the Wallace family through letters, diaries, journals, financial records, photographs, newspaper clippings, books, and extensive genealogical information.