Wallace

(from obituary provided by Arnold Watson)

Alexander H. Wallace (1832–1896) came to Wisbeach from Scotland with his parents in 1845. He wanted to go to Africa as a missionary but his widowed mother, who had been left to his care, asked him not to go.

Alexander married the fourth daughter of John Bowes. For a time Alexander worked as a school teacher, Magistrate and Warwick Twp. Councillor. In 1870, he left the area with his wife and seven children and moved to Iowa, then South Dakota.