WALLACE, Henry, American agricul tural writer and leader: b. near West Newton, Pa., 19 March 1836; d. Des Moines, 22 Feb. 1916. He was of Scotch-Irish extraction. The first 20 years of his life were spent on his father's farm, in Westmoreland County, Pa. In 1856 he pursued a preparatory course in Geneva Hall, Logan County, Ohio, and, the following year entered the junior class of Jefferson Col lege, Washington, Pa., whence he graduated in 1859. After teaching a year in Columbia College, Kentucicy he entered Allegheny Theological Seminary, Allegheny, Pa. Subsequently he continued his theological studies . in the United Presbyterian Seminary at Monmouth, Ill. His active service in the ministry was begun in 1863, as .pastor of the United Presby terian congregations of Rock Island, Ill. and Davenport, Iowa, and was married the same year to Miss Nannie Cantwell, of Mansfield, Ohio. In 1871 he assumed the pastorate of the United Presbyterian Churc.h at Morning Sun, Iowa, which he filled until 1876. In 1877, because of faifing health, he retired from the ministry and settled on a farm at Winterset, Iowa. Within a year he was editing a farm page on a local paper. In 1879 he bought an interest in the Winterset Chronicle. In 1883 he became editor of the lowa Hotnestead. In 1895, with his two sons, he founded Wallace's Farmer at Des Moines, Iowa, of which he re mained in editorial control during the rest of his life. Although this paper was primarily
established as an exponent of Iowa agricul tural interests, where it wielded a powerful in fluence, it soon had a circulation which ex tended far beyond the bounds of that State. Mr. Wallace was appointed by President Roose velt as a member of the Country Life Com mission in 1908, and gave his wlaole time to the work of that commission for four months. Incidental to his editorial work, he wrote sev eral books which were of practical value, namely, 'Clover Farming,' 'How to Make Good Dirt Roads,"The Skiminilk Calf,"Trusts and How to Control Them' and 'Uncle Henry's Talks with a Farm Boy,' of which the last mentioned perhaps was most widely cir culated and read. In 1910 he was president of the National Conservation Congress. In 1911 he was selected as national chairman of the Men and Religion Movement. In 1913 he was appointed by Governor Clarke, of Iowa, with former Secretary of Agriculture James Wilson, to investigate agricultural conditions in Great Britain. His death occurred 22 Feb. 1916 in the First Methodist Episcopal Church of Des Moines, at a meeting of the Interdenomina tional Laymen's Missionary Convention, of which he was chairman.