"Wallace, John (2), a Presbyterian minister, was born near Gap, Lancaster Co., Pa., Oct. 1, 1791. He was self-educated, but out of regard to his classical and theological attainments was licensed by New Castle Presbytery, and ordained by the same in 1832 as pas- tor of the Pequa Church in Lancaster County, which was his only charge. Here he labored faithfully and successfully for nearly thirty years. He died Oct. 29, 1866. He was an eminently good and faithful man. See Wilson, Presh. Hist. Almanac, 1867, p. 214.
"Wallace, Jonathan, M.D., a Universalist minis- ter, was of Scotch descent, born at Peterborough, N. H., March 20, 17.S4. He removed with his father to Berlin, Vt., in 1795, where he received a good common-school education, and taught school for several years ; studied medicine in his j'oung manhood, and for some time fol- lowed the medical profession ; and finally embraced Universalisra, and in 1815 began preaching. His first fields of labor were Richmond, Williston, and Jericho, Vt. He was married in 1820. In the winter of 1822-23 he moved to Potsdam, N. Y., where for several years he stood almost alone as a preacher of Universal- ism, his circuit embracing Canton, Madrid, Pierre- pout, Hopkinton, Malone, Bangor, and Potsdam, in which latter place he was pastor over twenty years. In 1837 he began in Potsdam the publication of a semi- monthly Universalist paper, which, not paying ex- penses, was soon dropped. He was afterwards associ- ate editor of The Evangelical Ma(/azine and Gospel A d- vocate at Utica, N. Y. He went to Boston in 1828 to be treated for epilepsy; preached there about a j'ear; spent his latter years in Potsdam, and died April 6, 1873. Mr. Wallace was a close, original thinker, and very tenacious of his opinions. He left many manu- scripts, including a volume of original hymns for public worship. He devoted nnich of his time preparing young men for the ministry. See Universalist Reyis- ter, 1874, p. 125.
"Wallace, Marcns Jediah, a Presbyterian min- ister, was b<jrn .lone 19, 1819, in Cabarrus Comity, N. C. He received his preparatory education at Mount
Carniel Academy, Tipton County, Tenn., under the tu- ition of the Rev. James Holmes, D.D., and graduated at the College of New Jersey in 1849. He made a profession of religion in the sixteenth year of his age, and united with the Church of his parents, the Poplar Tent Church. Immediately after his college gradua- tion, he entered Princeton Tiieological Seminary, where he spent three years, regularly graduating in 1852. He was licensed by the New Brunswick Presbytery April 28, 1852. He began his ministry in Texas, where he preached two years — 1853 and 1854 — as supply to the churches of Jefferson and Hickory Hill, having been ordained as an evangelist by the Presbytery of E.ast- ern Texas April 4, 1853, at Church Hill, Rusk Co., Texas. Next he supplied Hickory Hill and Smyrna churches from 1855 to 1860, when he moved to his last and longest field of labor, and became supply of Marlbrook and Greenwood (now Hope) churches, in Ouachita Presbytery, Ark. Here he labored assidu- ously and faithfully for more than eighteen years, until his death, June 21, 1878. He had no fear of death, but during his sickness often expressed a wish to live longer so that he might do something more for the Master. But his work was done, and well done. He was an honest, earnest, and faithful preacher of the Gospel, a firm and devoted friend, true in all the relations of life. (W. P. S.)
"Wallace, Robert (1), D.D., a Scotch divine, was born in Perthshire in 1697; was educated at the Uni- versity of Edinburgh; became minister of Moffat in 1723; also of Greyfriars' Church, Edinburgh, in 1733; and died in 1771, He published, A Dissertation on the Numbers of Mankind in Ancient and Modern Times (1753) : — Characteristics of the Present Political State, of Great Britain (1758): — and Various Prospects of Mankind, Nature, and Providence (1761).
"Wallace, Robert (2), a minister of the Reform- ed Presbyterian Church, was born in the parish of Loughgilly, County of Armagh, Ireland, in December, 1772. He was educated at the University of Glasgow, from which he graduated in 1810. The next spring he removed to America with his family, consisting of a wife and four children. He studied theologj' under Dr. Wylie, of Philadelphia, and was licensed in 1814. In the autumn of the same year he received a call from two societies, one in Kentucky and the other near Chil- licothe, O., and was ordained and installed in the pas- torate. He continued in this relation until 1820, when he resigned the charge in Kentucky and retained the one near Chillicothe. He was instrumental in organ- izing several societies within convenient distance of his home. In 1822 he received a call from the three societies which he had established at Salt Creek. Here he continued to labor as pastor of these societies and as missionary to the adjoining neighborhoods during the remainder of his life. He died July 19, 1849. See Sprague, Annals of the A met: Pulpit, ix., p. 66 sq.
"Wallace, "William, a Presbyterian minister, was born in Chester County, Pa., March 17, 1787. He grad- uated at Jefferson College, Pa.; studied theology pri- vately ; was licensed by Steubenville Presbytery in 1821, and immediately entered upon the work of a domestic missionary, going through the new settlements of East- ern Ohio, and gathering up and forming nuclei from which have arisen some prominent congregations. In 1822 he became pastor of the two newly organized con- gregations of Nottingham and Freeport, O., in which relation he continued for eigliteen years. He died Dec. 18, 1841. Mr. Wallace had the reputation of being a man of ardent piety and practical worth. He was faithful and successful as a pastor, and plain and instructive as a preacher. See Wilson, Pres. Hist. Almanac, 1867, p. 214.