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848 WALLACE pres. and mem. first B'd of Directors of its San Francisco Center; active in its non-partisan, ed- ucational and civic work. Favors woman suf- rage and was active worker in securing it in California. Voted for President Wilson. Recrea- tions: Mountaineering on horseback, tennis. When husband went back to navy for Spanish- American war in 1889, went East, studied at Harvard, and in Aug. volunteered to work under Miss Helen Gould in harbor hospitals in New York; lived in Bedloe's Island Hospital; organ- ized and ran diet kitchen there and supplied nurses and drugs to that and other hospitals until Dec., 1898. After the earthquake in San Francisco, organized and ran diet kitchen in temporary hospital at Univ. of Cal. for refugees from fire in San Francisco. T., Olive S., Helen T., George F. Taught three years in Titusville High School, Latin and Ger- man, 1874-77. Presbyterian. Mem. Nat. Soc. New England Women, Colony No. 2; Buffalo Chapter Nat. Soc. D.A.R., Buffalo Genealogical Soc. Recreation: Genealogical Research. WALLACE, Grace Seccomb (Mrs. Frederic William Wallace), 996 Hillside Av., Plainfield, N.J. Born Brooklyn, N.Y.; dau. Edward A. and Mary (Turner) Seccomb; ed. Farmington, Conn., (Miss Porter's School); m. Washington, Conn., Sept. 9, 1896, Frederic William Wallace (Yale '89); children: Edward Seccomb, Elizabeth Hale, Frederic William Jr., Mary Sumner, Grace_Sec- comb 2d. Favors woman suffrage; mem. Equal Franchise Soc. Presbyterian%; mem. of Crescent WALLACE, Adelle Lackey (Mrs. James Strong Av. Church of Plainfield. Mem. Farmington Soc. Wallace), Clayton, Ill. Teacher of music; b. Clayton, Ill., June 27, 1870; dau. Abel M. and Rhoda E. (Ausmus) Lackey; ed. Clayton High School, Knox Con- servatory, Galesburg, Ill.; Quincy (Ill.) Con- servatory of Music; private instruction in Chi- cago; m. Clayton, Ill., 1909, James Strong Wal- lace. Active as an influence for progress along musical lines; organizer and instructor Ladies' Glee Club; mem. Clayton Woman's Reading Club. Presbyterian. Favors woman suffrage. WALLACE, Elizabeth, University of Chicago, Chicago, Ill. Dean of junior colleges; b. Santa Fé de Bogota, Colombia, S.A., 1866; dau. Thomas Freeman and Martha (Torrance) Wallace; lived in Colom- bia until 1874, then came to U.S.; grad. Welles- ley, B.S. '86; fellow, 1892-93; reader in Spanish, 1893-94; Univ. of Chicago, grad. work: in Ecole Hautes Etudes, des Collége de France, 1897. Dean of women, Knox Coll, Galesburg, Ill., 1894-96; since 1897 instructor and ass't prof. French literature, also since 1905 dean in the Was head of junior colleges, Univ. of Chicago. Beecher House, University of Chicago, 1893-1909; received from French Government decoration of d'Académie; fellow Internat. Inst., Officier Madrid, 1910-11. Favors woman suffrage. Author: South American Republics, 1894; La Perfecta Casada, 1902: A Garden of Paris, 1911; Mark Twain and the Happy Island, 1912. Mem. Drama League of America, the Little Rcom Club, Fort- nightly Club. WALLACE, Ellen Alfleda, Manchester, N.H. Physician; b. Hill, Merrimack Co., N.H., April 24, 1853; dau. Edmund Rundlett and Mary John- son (Flanders) Wallace; grad. New Hampton Literary Inst., '73; Woman's Med. Coll. of N.Y. Infirmary for Women and Children, M.D. '85; post-graduate study in N.Y. City, 1885-87. Ass't physician in N.Y. Infirmary and N.Y. Infant Asylum, and physician to N.Y. City Mission until 1887; since then practising at Manchester, N.H. Has served as physician to Manchester Children's Home; physician to W.C.T.U. Mercy Home from 1890; consulting physician and pres. Board of Trustees of N.H. Memorial Hospital for Women and Children since 1900; mem. board of Man- chester District Nursing Ass'n; identified with Fourth International Congress on School Hy- giene. State sup't of Health and Heredity of W.C.T.U. for many years, doing important work the by organizing, writing and lecturing on many ways of preventing disease; was originator of Health Day for N.H. (first in country, but one or now contemplated by other States); Mem. pioneers in work of preventive medicine. Am. Med. Ass'n, N.H. Med. Soc., New England Hospital Med. Ass'n, Hillsboro County Med. Soc., W.C.T.U., N.H. State Fed. of Women's Clubs, Mem. and active Florence Nightingale Club. worker in First Congregational Church of Man- chester, N.H. WALLACE, Fannie Seymour Ware (Mrs. George Addison Wallace), 345 Lafayette Av., Buffalo, N.Y. Teacher; b. Niagara Falls, Dec. 1, 1852; dau. Dr. Charles Seymour and Helen A. (Turner) Ware; ed. Buffalo State Normal School, 1874 (valedictorian); m. Titusville, Pa., July 17, 1877, George Addison Wallace, M.D.; children: Charles WALLACE, Helen Peters (Mrs. Charlton Wal- lace), 507 Madison Av., N.Y. City; summer, Shippan Point, Stamford, Conn. Born Buffalo, N.Y., June 27, 1875; dau. G. Moore Peters, LL.D., and Mary (King) Peters; ed. Miss Nourse's School, Cincinnati, Ohio; Miss Gerrish's Collegiate School for Girls, Englewood, N.J.; Vassar Coll., A.B. '97; m. Cincinnati, Ohio, Dec. 19, 1899, Dr. Charlton Wallace; children: John Moore, b. 1901; Charlton Jr., b. 1904. Director Intercollegiate Bureau of Occupation; mem. Nat. B'd Y.W.C.A. Favors woman suf- frage. Baptist. Mem. Women's University Club. WALLACE, Louise Baird, Constantinople Col- lege, Constantinople, Turkey. asso. Prof. of biology in Constantinople College; b. Newville, Pa., Sept. 21, 1867; dau. William Lock- hart and Elizabeth (Riddle) Wallace; grad. Mt. Holyoke Coll., A.B. '98; Univ. of Pa., A.M. '04, Ph.D. '08; special studies in Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, Mass., summers 1891- 1903; Zoological Station, Naples, Italy, 1901. Ass't in zoology, Smith Coll., 1896-99; prof. zoology, Mt. Holyoke Coll., 1899-1912; since 1912 prof. biology and dean of faculty in Constantinople Coll. (formerly called Am. Coll. for Girls), Constantinople, Turkey. Author of monographs: The Structure and Development of the Axillary Gland of Batrachus (Journal of Morphology, VIII. 3); The Germ Ring in the Egg of the Toadfish Batrachus tau (Journal of Morphology XV. 6), The Accessory Chromosome in the Spider (Anatomischer Anzeiger, XVIII. 13-14); The inermatogenesis of the Spider (Bio- logical Bulletins, Vol. VIII.), The Spermato- genesis of Agalena naevia (Zoological Bulletin, XVII. 2). WALLACE, Lulu Norvell (Mrs. John T. Wal- lace), Kingsbury Apartment, 501 Clara Av., St. Louis, Mo. Born New Orleans, La., Nov., 1866; dau. Lewis C. and Sarah (Saunders) Norvell; ed. Mary Inst., St. Louis, Mo.; m. (1st) St. Louis, Jan. 27, 1886, Rivers B. Meriwether; children: Susan Meri- wether Bougher, b. Feb., 1887; Elizabeth Meri- wether McLure, b. Oct., 1888; m. (2d) John T. Mem. St. Louis Woman's Club, the Wallace. Recreations: Reading, travel- Wednesday Club. Presbyterian. Favors woman suffrage; mem. the Woman Suffrage League. WALLACE, Margaret Stirling, Ludhiana, Pun- jab, India. ing. Physician; b. Brantford, Can., Oct., 1869; dau. Robert C. and Agnes (McLaren) Wallace; ed. Essex High School; Toronto Normai School; Women's Med. Coll., Toronto: M.D.C.M., Trinity Univ., Toronto. Med. Missionary in Honan, China, 1898-1900; served in British Naval Hos- pital in Wei Hai Wei during the Boxer trouble in 1900; then went to India for two years to Canadian Mission Hospital (Presbyterian) at Indore; in 1908 returned to India as prof. of medicine in Woman's Christian Med. Coll., Ludhiana, Punjab. Taught in Toronto public schools, 1890-96. Favors woman suffrage. Pres- byterian. WALLACE, Neil Robinson (Mrs. John H. Wal- lace), 1015 S. Twelfth Av., Birmingham, Ala. Born Benton, Ala., Nov. 13, 1869; dau. John William and Mary (May) Robinson; ed. public schools of Alabama; received second honors on