Robert Wisdom Wallace (1888 - 1968)

Born 7 May 1888 in Paucah, McCracken County, Kentucky, USA

Died 14 Feb 1968 at age 79 in Fort Lauderdale, Broward, Florida, United States

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Biography

After graduating from Princeton, A. B., in 1908 "Bob" Wallace was business manager of the Paducah "News Democrat" from 1909 to 1911.

In 1912 the Wallaces moved to Memphis due to the urging of a close friend Robert Morris who owned the Memphis Furniture Company. Bob Wallace joined Oscar A. Smith in organizing the insurance firm of Smith & Wallace, which was dissolved by the death of the senior partner in 1920. Mr. Wallace then became vice president of the present large insurance firm of Morrison, Wallace & Company, with J. J. Morrison as the president and Mr. Wallace as the vice president.

Bob Wallace was president of the University Club, Insurance Exchange, and Insurance Club of Memphis where he was general agent of the Aetna Casualty Security Company.

One of the 208 members of the senior class of 1908 and a classmate of Bob was John Foster Dulles; their diplomas were signed by Woodrow Wilson who was the president of Princeton.

BURIAL Forest Hill Cemetery Midtown Memphis, Shelby County, Tennessee, USA

Spouses: 1st wife - Belle Schoolfield Wallace 1888–1938 (m. 1911) 2nd wife - Cecile Coleman Wallace 1890–1983 (m. 1943)

Children: Emily Schoolfield Wallace Berry 1912–1986 Diana Temple Wallace Crump 1919–2011 May Wisdom Wallace Scarbrough 1924–2017

Sources

• United States Census, 1920," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MN5N-QL3 : accessed 25 September 2017), Robert W Wallace, Memphis Ward 20, Shelby, Tennessee, United States; citing ED 180, sheet 1A, line 10, family 4, NARA microfilm publication T625 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1992), roll 1764; FHL microfilm 1,821,764.

• United States Census, 1930," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:SP7D-CKY : accessed 25 September 2017), Robert W Wallace, Memphis, Shelby, Tennessee, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 237, sheet 5A, line 1, family 42, NARA microfilm publication T626 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2002), roll 2278; FHL microfilm 2,342,012.

• United States Census, 1940," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:K4CW-STC : accessed 25 September 2017), Robert W Wallace, Ward 16, Memphis, Civil District 2, Shelby, Tennessee, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 98-93, sheet 10B, line 71, family 214, Sixteenth Census of the United States, 1940, NARA digital publication T627. Records of the Bureau of the Census, 1790 - 2007, RG 29. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2012, roll 3962.

• Tennessee Death Records, 1914-1955," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:N954-QMX : 25 May 2014), Robert Wisdom Wallace in entry for Belle Schoolfield Wallace, 21 Dec 1938; citing Forest Hill Cemetery, Memphis, Shelby, Tennessee, cn 28022, State Library and Archives, Nashville; FHL microfilm 1,876,870.

• https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/128288290/robert-wisdom-wallace