John Donald Wallace
- Born: 24 Feb 1845, Elora, Wellington Co., Ontario, Canada
- Marriage (1): Hannah Patmore
- Marriage (2): Mary Larter in 1884
- Died: Abt 1907, Long Beach, Los Angeles, California, United States about age 62
 General Notes:
Edward H. Wallace wrote in short autobiography 4 May 1920:
"...until February, 1881 when removed to Drayton, North Dakota, the family exchequer consisting of $2.40. Father filed on pre-emption one mile from town to which family removed in April and mother died the next month. Three years later father returned to Canada and married Mary Larter, mother's particular friend. To this union came Gertrude, who died at the age of two years; Ella Irene, in 1887 and Maxwell Raymond, 1890..."
Research Notes:
Birthplace from LDW family tree.
From History of Long Island: From Its Earliest Settlement to the Present Time, vol. III
by Peter Ross, New York, 1903, p. 114 :
"George Wallace is descended from a Scotch family which has contributed members to every honorable and useful walk of life. His father, Donald Wallace, a native of Scotland, born in 1816, recently died in California, in the eighty-seventh year of his age. He reared a family of nine children, all but one of whom are living and occupying excellent business and social positions. The youngest son, a member of Roosevelt's 'Rough Riders' regiment, lost his life in the Spanish-American war. The eldes, John D., has long been a prominent business man and a leader in Republican councils in North Dakota, and is now the county judge of Pembina county; Charles L. is editor of the leading Republican newspaper in Nassau county, at Rockville Center, also a promient operator in real estate. Albert J. and Frank S., as the firm of Wallace Bros., are at the head of large business enterprises at Los Angeles, Pasadena and elsewhere in California. Lavinia M. is the wife of R. H. Young, editor of the 'Methodist Herald,' of Minneapolis, Minnesota; Matilda H. is the wife of the Rev. James Healy, a Methodist Episcopal clergyman filling a pastorate in Southern California; and Mary A. is wife of S. Frank Johnson, a banker at Pasadena, California."
John married Hannah Patmore, daughter of Levi Joy Patmore and Elizabeth P. Bastedo. (Hannah Patmore was born in 1847 in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada and died on 1 Jun 1881.)
John next married Mary Larter in 1884.
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