Donald Clare Wallace

  General Notes:

Bio dated 29 Jan 1918:
"Donald Clare Wallace was born at Belview, Redwood County, Minnesota, July 10, 1898 and was graduated from Long Beach Poly High in 1916. The fall of that year he entered the Alma Mater of his father, William H. Wallace, Hamline University, S. Paul, Minn. and throughout the season played center in a victorious foot ball team, not missing a minute of any game.
"In the spring in St. Paul he enlisted in the navy but was not called from his studies, the call coming the day after commencement. He went immediately to Goat Island, San Francisco, where he was put to work as a wireless operator, where he has been ever since, being promoted step by step until on January 5th, 1918, at the age of 19 years he was made first class petty officer. By his own study and practice while in the high school here he became an expert electrician and radio operator, constructed his own plant at his home and helping to pay his school expenses by manufacturing apparatus for other amateur operators, winding armatures, coils, etc. As an expert elecgrician he has been called from his work at Goat Island at different times for special work, having at one time spent two weeks on a Government light tender out in the ocean reconstructing the wireless plant and having spent several weeks at Marshall, Marin County, which is at the terminus of the oriental cable."

  Research Notes:

Mother = William H. Wallace's first wife. Half-brother of Lorna Wallace (stepson of Edith Poapst). Birthdate could be earlier than 1905 (1880's).

  Noted events in his life were:

• Graduation: Long Beach Polytechnic High School`, [Jun?] 1916, Long Beach, Los Angeles, California, United States.

• Enrolled: Hamline University, Abt Sep 1916, St. Paul, Minnesota, United States.

• Served: United States Navy, Abt May 1917.

Donald married Bertha Lindquist. (Bertha Lindquist died in 1971.)