Person Sheet

Name Robert Wisdom WALLACE , Grandfather Birth Date 7 May 1886 Birth Place Ellerslie, Paducah, Kentucky Occupation Insurance Agent Cause of Dea Heart Failure Death Date 14 Feb 1968 Age: 81 Death Place Fort Lauderdale, Florida Schools Princeton University Father George Clayton WALLACE (1860-1920) Mother May WISDOM (1861-1945)
Spouses
1 Isabella Maxwell SCHOOLFIELD , Grandmother Birth Date 17 Apr 1888 Birth Place Danville, Kentucky Occupation Housewife Cause of Dea Stomach Cancer Death Date 21 Dec 1938 Age: 50 Death Place Baptist Memorial Hospital, Memphis, TN Schools Kentucky College for Women, Danville, Kentucky Father George Thomas SCHOOLFIELD Jr. (1841-) Mother Emma Thomas BEARD (1852-)
Marriage Date 18 Apr 1911 Marriage Place Lexington, Kentucky
Children Emily Schoolfield (1912-1986) (Living, Female) (Living, Female)
2 Mrs. Cecile Howland Coleman PORTER  Birth Date 3 May 1890 Birth Place Milwaukee, Wisconsin Death Date Feb 1983 Father John COLEMAN Mother Louise HOWLAND
Marriage Date 24 Feb 1943 Marriage Place Memphis, Tennessee
Notes for Robert Wisdom WALLACE
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.