William Wallace and Mary McLenegan

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Husband William Wallace ¹

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           Born: 6 Nov 1805 1
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           Died: Bef 1887
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         Father: Isaac Wallace (      -      ) 1 2
         Mother: Sarah Graham (      -      ) 2

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   Other Spouse: Mary Fordney (      -      ) 1

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Wife Mary McLenegan ¹

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         Father: [Father] McLenegan (      -      )
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Children

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1 M Elijah Wallace ¹

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General Notes: Husband - William Wallace

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He was born on the paternal farm, and was educated in a log schoolhouse near Marion, Franklin County, Pennsylvania, and acquired an excellent mental training. Of his apprenticeship we know nothing, but in 1826 he commenced business for himself in Greenvillage; a few years later he moved to Chambersburg and took the store at the corner of Queen and Main Streets, thereafter famous in the annals of the county seat as "Wallace's Corner." He went into partnership with Col. John McGeehan, then a celebrated personage in that region; soon after the firm was enlarged by taking in James Duffield, the brother-in-law of Mr. Wallace, and the firm bore the title of McGeehan, Wallace & Co. After a few years Mr. Wallace bought out the partners and conducted the business alone until after the burning of the town by the rebels, when, his business house and store being consumed, he secured a temporary room in the market-house, replenished his stock, associated with him a favorite clerk, Mr. Leonard Kindline, and did an immense trade under the firm name of Wallace & Kindline. Subsequently Maj. McLenegan, son of his second wife, was taken into the partnership, and, finally, he reconstructed his firm and, as Wallace & McLenegan, continued in the mercantile business until death dissolved the firm. Mr. Wallace died after a prolonged illness, which he accepted from the beginning as fatal, and which he bore with exemplary composure, waiting serenely for the end.

During his business career he was engaged in milling, brick-making, farming, and prospered in all. He was one of the largest stockholders of the Chambersburg Woolen Mill and one of its officers and managers.
He acquired a large estate and erected a number of valuable houses in Chambersburg. He was a devout Christian for many years, a member of Falling Spring Church. In politics, in which he took a lively interest, he was a Democrat born and reared, but upon the breaking out of the Rebellion he became an earnest Republican. During the worst days of the war his faith in the final triumph of the Union forces never faltered, and his gratitude to the statesmen and generals of the Republic was intense and abiding. Mr. Wallace was an exceptionally handsome man, of winning address, pleasant voiced, simple and gentle in deportment, and of an affectionate nature, constant in his friendships, frank and direct in his convictions, and invincibly honest in his sentiments, and in his dealings possessing rare judgment. He was a great reader, and acquired a fine stock of knowledge.

He had several sons with his first wife, all of whom, except Elijah, died in their childhood and youth.

1 —, History of Franklin County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Warner, Beers & Co., 1887), Pg 697.

2 —, Biographical Annals of Franklin County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: The Genealogical Publishing Co., 1905), Pg 363.