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James Madison Power Wallace was born in Philadelphia in 1847 to Henry Edward Wallace and Hetty Dungan Potts. Wallace entered the University of Pennsylvania in 1861 as a member of the Class of 1865, and was a second cousin of classmate Robert Emmet McDonald. Wallace was an enthusiastic member of the Zelosophic Society, serving as vice-regent in his senior year and composing poetry vilifying the rival Philomathean Society. After graduation from the College, Wallace studied law at the University. He became a lawyer and also, from 1869-1891, the publisher of the Legal Intelligencer. On December 12, 1872, he married Sarah Matilda Shreve. He died in Philadelphia in 1907. Wallace kept a comprehensive scrapbook of his years at the University and of subsequent class events; the material was eventually donated to the University Archives by his son, John Small Wallace, who graduated from the Penn Law School in 1898. | |
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