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From: The Auchs <>
Subject: [CTNEWHAV] ROLL CALL: Frederick Joseph WALLACE aft. 1870
Date: Wed, 02 Jul 2003 16:54:46 -0400
In-Reply-To: <200307022018.h62KIc2C017700@lists2.rootsweb.com>


Frederick Joseph Wallace was one son of Benjamin Wallace (6 Mar 1833-6 Nov
1918) and Elizabeth J Eastman (25 Sep 1835-19 Apr 1866). Born 9 Sep 1858
in Wallace Hill, near Townsend, Massachusetts. He moved to Meriden,
Connecticut in 1876 at age 18.

Lived on Cheshire Street originally. Met and married Carrie Emogene Brooks
sometime before 1889. They had 5 children but only one survived past
childhood:
Harriet Belle Wallace (12 Dec 1889-1 Apr 1984)
Wheeler Wallace (bef 1889-in childhood)
Edward Wallace (bef 1889-in childhood)
Carrie Wallace (bef 1889-in childhood)
Baby Wallace (bef 1889-in childhood)

FJ Wallace owned Patten and Wallace (retail provision business) and was
elected President, Retail Butcher's Association abt 1890. Later he
traveled for Landers, Frary, & Clark and for Chaplin Manufacturing on
Britannia Street. After 1919, he owned a hardware store at 443 Colony
Street and lived at 34 Kensington Avenue. He died on 7 Dec 1933 from a
heart attack in Meriden, New Haven, Connecticut at age 75 . He was buried
in in Walnut Grove Cemetery, Meriden, Connecticut
by the Bradley home, 45 Butler Street on a Saturday afternoon at 2:30
o'clock. His burial was presided over by Rev. George L. Barnes, rector of
St. Andrews Episcopal Church.

Related families: SELBY who married and divorced FJ's daughter and BOWEN
and BROOKS, Carrie's grandparents.

Christina Auch mailto:
Personal Family History website
http://freepages.family.rootsweb.com/~familiesacrosstime/

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