BIOGRAPHIES

Source:
20th CENTURY HISTORY
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Springfield and Clark County, Ohio
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	EDWARD S. WALLACE - See Page 531 in Chapter XX
	IRA W. WALLACE, president of the Wallace Company, who has been identified with Springfield business interests for the past thirty-three years, was born in 1844, in Mahoning County, Ohio.  Mr. Wallace was reared in his native county and was mainly educated at Poland Seminary, having as a classmate, the late President William. McKinley.      In 1862 Mr. Wallace entered the Federal army, in which he continued as a soldier until the close of the Civil War.  He was a member of the Ninth Independent Company of Ohio Sharpshooters and served as orderly sergeant, was commissioned second lieutenant and later first lieutenant, and was mustered out of the service at Cleveland, in September, 1865.  He returned to Mahoning County and from there in the fall of that year went to Missouri, where he was engaged for seven years in an insurance and real estate business.  Upon his return to Ohio, he was occupied in the same line of industry at Cleveland, until 1875, when he opened up an insurance business in Springfield, where he has his two sons associated with him.  He represents the leading insurance companies of the country, including, the Royal, the North British Mercantile, the Liverpool and London, the Niagara and New York, the Connecticut, of Hartford, the Hanover, of New York, and the Aetna Life, together with a number of other organizations.  In 1879, Mr. Wallace was married to Lizzie C. Cornwell, and they have two sons, Gail C. and Fred M.      Politically, Mr. Wallace is a Republican and for a number of years has been a member of the Republican Executive committee.  He is a valued member of Mitchell Post, Grand Army of the Republic.  He was chairman of the committee of this post that called the meeting that resulted in the organization of the Clark County Historical Society, and he has been a member of its board of directors ever since.  He is a very active member of the Lagonda Club and at present is its vice president.  He is in close sympathy with all movements of a public-spirited nature which promise to be of substantial benefit to the city. Source: 20th Century History of Springfield and Clark County, Ohio and Representative Citizens - Publ: Biographical Publishing Co. - Chicago, Illinois - 1908 - Page 718
	THOMAS D. WALLACE,* senior member of the firm of Wallace & Todd, grocers, at Springfield, is one of the city's careful, conservative and successful men of business.  He was born in 1849, in Madison Township, Clark County, Ohio, and is a son of John Wallace.      John Wallace was born in England and came to Clark County, Ohio, in 1844, where he was engaged first in business in the merchant-tailoring line, and for a few years he carried on a general store at Enon.  He was among the pioneer merchants of this section.      Thomas D. Wallace was trained in the details of mercantile life in his father's store.  In 1871 he went to the northwestern part of Missouri, where he engaged in a mercantile business for two years and then returned to Enon, Ohio, where he was a general merchant until 1881, when he came to Springfield.  Here he embarked in a grocery business.  Politically, Mr. Wallace is a Democrat and in 1890-91, he served as city clerk.  After that he was a member of the Board of Public Affairs and was concerned in the newspaper business.  During the last administration of President Cleveland he was postmaster at Springfield.  Following the close of his official life he bought the Daily Democrat which he conducted until 1906, when he sold out and has been interested in the grocery line ever since under the style of Wallace and Todd.  He has long been a Democratic leader in Clark County and for eight years was chairman of the Democratic County Committee, and for twenty-three years has been a delegate to the Democratic State conventions.  He has been a loyal party man and has accepted few rewards.      In 1873 Mr. Wallace was married to Mary A. Shellabarger, and they have two children—Gertrude L. and Edwin S.  The family belong to St. Paul's Methodist Church, Mr. Wallace being a member of its official board.  For six years he has been a member of the Board of Commissioners of Snyder Park. Source: 20th Century History of Springfield and Clark County, Ohio and Representative Citizens - Publ: Biographical Publishing Co. - Chicago, Illinois - 1908 - Page 1048
	JOSEPH WEAVER, whose blacksmith shop and thirty-five acres of valuable land is situated at Vienna, and in Harmony Township, has been township trustee for the past three years and is an active and leading citizen of this section.  He was born in Clark County, Ohio, Apr. 13, 1859, and is a son of Abraham and Mary Ann (Jones) Weaver.  Mr. Weaver comes of Revolutionary ancestry, his maternal Great-grandfather Hedrick having served, with two of his sons, during that struggle.  The paternal grandparents of Mr. Weaver were Joseph and Sarah (Hedrick) Weaver, the former of whom was born in 1794, and died in 1852, and the latter was born in 1796, and died in 1885.  They had four children: Eliza, Nancy, Amanda and Abraham.  Eliza was born in 1821, married John Dubree and had three children.  Nancy, born in 1825, married Samuel Peters, had five children and died in January, 1908.  Amanda, born in 1828, married James Hicks and they had seven children.      Abraham Weaver, father of Joseph, was born Jan. 24, 1823.  He married (first) Sophia Sprague, who died in 1851, the mother of two children: Theresa and Orlando.  Mr. Weaver was married (second) to Mary Ann Jones in 1852.  She was born in 1827 and died in 1889.  There were nine children born to this union, namely: Eliza, James, Charles, Kate, Joseph, Nancy, Hattie, Laura and Frank.  The surviving members of this family, exclusive of Joseph, are: James, who married Caroline Ensley, Charles, who married Ida Carr, has six children; Kate, who married Fletcher Tumbelsion, has two children; Harriet, who married Samuel Prugh, has two children; Laura, who married John Sharp, has four children; and Frank, who married Lillie M. Tavender, has four children.      Joseph Weaver was reared in Clark County and attended the district schools.  In 1885 he settled in Madison County, where he lived until 1890, when he came to Vienna, where he owns property and has conducted a blacksmith business and engaged in farming ever since.  He is a well known and progressive citizen of Harmony Township.      In 1885 Mr. Weaver was married to Luemma Smith, who was born in 1861, and they have two children: Gilbert, who was born Mar. 31, 1886, and is a student in the Ohio State University at Columbus, and Irene, who was born Mar. 24, 1896.  The father of Mrs. Weaver, Josiah O. Smith, was born Apr. 15, 1831, and died Apr 27, 1907.  On Sept. 9, 1852, he was married to Nancy Lane, who was born in 1833 and died May 27, 1905.  Mr. and Mrs. Smith had ten children, namely: Sarah, Edward H., Mary, Clara, Luemma, Warner, Dosa, Wade, Frank H. and Alice.      Mr. Weaver belongs to Lodge No. 345, Odd Fellows, at Vienna.  He is a leading member of the Christian Church at Vienna and is a member of its board of trustees. Source: 20th Century History of Springfield and Clark County, Ohio and Representative Citizens - Publ: Biographical Publishing Co. - Chicago, Illinois - 1908 - Page 822
	HON. WALTER L. WEAVER, a prominent attorney at Springfield, who served as a member of the Fifty-fifth and Fifty-sixth sessions of the National Congress, has long been a leading citizen of Clark County.  He was born in Montgomery County, Ohio, Apr. 1, 1851, and is a son of Rev. John and Amanda (Hurin) Weaver.  The father of Mr. Weaver was a well-known minister of the Presbyterian Church.  His mother was a daughter of Silas Hurin, a pioneer settler of this state and one of the founders of Lebanon, Ohio.      Walter L. Weaver was educated in the public schools of Montgomery County, and at Monroe Academy, and was graduated in 1870 from Wittenberg College at Springfield.  He then entered upon the study of law under Hon. J. Warren Keifer and as he was dependent upon his our resources, he did newspaper work during his period of law reading.  In the spring of 1872 he was admitted to the bar, and in 1874 he was elected prosecuting attorney of Clark County.  To this responsible office he was re-elected in 1880, 1882 and 1885.  In 1896 he was elected on the Republican ticket a member of the Fifty-fifth Congress and approval of his public course was shown by his re-election to the Fifty-sixth Congress. In July, 1902, he was appointed by President Roosevelt, associate justice of the Choctaw and Chickasaw Citizenship Court, and his appointment was confirmed on the same day.       Since retiring from public life, Judge Weaver has continued in the active practice of law at Springfield, which city has been his chosen home for forty-three years.  His business offices are situated in the Bushnell Building, Rooms 43-44-45.      Judge Weaver was married on May 24, 1881, to Mary Hardy, who is a daughter of Thomas Hardy, of Lebanon, Ohio, and the family consists of himself, wife, a son and a daughter. Judge and Mrs. Weaver are members of the Second Presbyterian Church of Springfield.  He belongs to the Masonic order, being a member of Clark Lodge No. 101, at Springfield. Source: 20th Century History of Springfield and Clark County, Ohio and Representative Citizens - Publ: Biographical Publishing Co. - Chicago, Illinois - 1908 - Page 909