FUNERAL RITES THIS AFTERNOON FOR F. A. WALLACE
Death ends distinquished career of son of Wallace Co. Founder

Private funeral services for Frank Albert Wallace, 77, president of the R. Wallace and Sons' Manufacturing company, who died early Saturday morning at New Haven hospital, will take place this afternoon at 3 o'clock at his home, South Main street, with the Rev. Edwin G. Zellars, pastor of the First Congregational church, officiating. Burial will be in the family plot in In Memoriam cemetery. It is requested by the family that flowers not be sent. The bearers will be John W. Leavenworth, Malcolm and Donald L. Wallace, Donald W. Leach, Dr. V. W. Heard and Charles Bromberg, the last two named sons-in-law of the deceased, both of BIrmingham, Ala.

FACTORY CLOSES AT NOON...
Out of respect to the deceased, the son of the founder of the company, the factory will close at noon today. At the morning service yesterday at the First Congregational church, the pastor spoke of the death of Mr. Wallace. He referred to the prominent and honorable place he had occupied in the town for so many years, and of his leadership in so many things that were for the best interests of the church and community. To the family of the deceased he extended the sympathy and prayers of the church, and expressed its gratitude for all Mr. Wallace had done.

SURVIVING FAMILY...
Mr. Wallace is survived by two daughters, Mrs. Vigil W. Heard and Mrs. Charles Bromberg, both of Birmingham, Ala., and one son, Floyd Wallace of this town, also eight grandchildren and one sister, Miss Harriet E. Wallace, of the borough. Mr. Wallace was born September 23, 1857, in this town, being a descendant of James Wallace, who came from Scotland to Ireland and later to Blanford, Mass. in early Colonial days. His father was Robert Wallace, one of the most progressive and prominent manufacturers of his day, a man whose originality and persistent application left a marked influence on the history of American industry. He was the pioneer manufacturer of German silver in America, and started the largest concern devoted to the manufacturer of flat silverware in the world. Mr. Wallace's mother was Harriet Moulthrop, a woman who exerted a powerful influence upon the moral life of her son. As a boy, Mr. Wallace was healthy and strong. He was brought up in the country and attended the common schools, and always had plenty of work to do outside school hours.

START OF LIFE'S WORK....
In 1873, Mr. Wallace began his life work as a manufacturer by entering his father's employ. His father, the late Robert Wallace, belonged to and was contemporaneous with that galaxy of men, whose genius, ability, pluck and determination from the humblest beginnings built fortunes for themselves and others, and made this town and the city of Meriden famous industrial centers, especially for britannia metal ware, throughout the civilized world. At the age of eighteen, the late Robert Wallace began the manufacture of spoons on his own account, in an old gristmill shop in Cheshire, and was destined to link his name with an event that was to mark a new epochwhen he was shown a spoon made of metal new to him, called German silver. A chemist, Dr. Louis Feuchtwahger, was known to have brought a small bar of the metal from Germany. This bar Mr. Wallace purchased, and had it rolled into spoons. Later he found a gentleman who had brought the recipe for making the metal and who sold it to him for twenty-five dollars. Here in his factory, Mr. Wallace compounded the first German silver made in America, and to him is due the honor of being the pioneer in this new industry. At this time he removed his simple machinery from Cheshire to a point on the Quinnipiac river, below Wallingford, and began the manufacturer of spoons and flatware on a mere extended scale. In the old mill of Cheshire the output was three dozen spoons a day. Here it was nine dozen. The industry gradually assumed large proportions. New machinery was devised by Mr. Wallace and in 1855 the business represented an investment of $12,000, which very soon became $14,000. In 1865, it became $100,000 and the style of the corporation was Wallace, Simpson and Co. The manufacturing capacity was more than correspondingly increased in 1871. Mr. Wallace bought out Mr. Simpson with two of his sons and formed the R. Wallace and Sons Manufacturing company. The factory now had added to its list of goods already made a large number of new and desirable articles, sterling goods, high-grade nickle silver silver plated ware, both flat and hollow. Still later, by experiment, Mr. Wallace devised a new process of manufacturing from steel, by which less bulky, firmer and lighter basus for silver plating was secured.

FATHER DIED IN 1892...
The late Robert Wallace belonged to the old school of men plain and unassuming to a marked degree. His tastes were simple, and he seemed the happiest when at the bench at the factory away from the office and its complicated interests. The great ambition of his life seemed to be to excel as a manufacturer. Accumulating wealth and widely known, he could have had any position in the gift of his townspeople, had he desired such honors, but all these he uniformly declined when pro-offered him. His life was a fine illustration of steady and life-long devotion to one calling. He died on June 1, 1892. His life had a great influence on his son, Frank A. Wallace, who succeeded him. With strict application to his duty and with a determination to win the utmost success as a silversmith, the late Frank A. Wallace climbed the ladder until he was elected president of an industry that has salesrooms in New York, Chicago, San Francisco and London that showed the full realization of his desire for success. He had been workman, director, superintendent, secretery and, since 1892, president of the company, and the growth of the business has been as rapid and just as his own rise in position. His career proves the value of a thorough mastery of one business and of a single aim in life that of doing one thing became one of the largest of its kind in the world before the International Silver combine. Mr. Wallace had never held public office, though he was a Republican. His business interests, outside of his own company were director of the First National bank from 1882 to 1926 and its president from 1906 to 1926. He was a director of the Wallingford company, a director of the New Haven County Anti-Tuberculosis society and had been president of the Wallace Purchasing company. In private life, Mr. Wallace had much that is of interest. Socially he was a member of the Union League club of New Haven. His favorite diversions were fly fishing and automobiling. In June 1894, Mr. Wallace married Zula Curtis, of Meriden, and in December 1898, he married his second wife, now deceased, Sarah Rose Manning of this town. There were four children, one of whom died, Robert Wallace.

Published in the Meriden Record, Monday Morning, October 16, 1933, page 9
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FINAL HONORS PAID TO FRANK A. WALLACE

Very simple and brief was the funeral service for Frank Albert Wallace held yesterday afternoon at 3 o'clock at his home on South Main street, carrying out an expressed wish of the family. The Rev. Edwin G. Zellars, pastor of the First Congregational church, officiated. He selected very appropriate passages from the scripture and for the committal services in In Memoriam cemetery. He offered prayers and pronounced the benediction. Before the service, some of the factory employees and executives called at the home to pay their last respects to one they highly admired. Beautiful floral tributes banked the casket. During the funeral, a program of hymns was played by Mrs. John M. Cannon on the Yale Memorial chimes at the Congregational church.

Published in the Meriden Record, Tuesday Morning, October 17, 1933, page 8
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CHILDREN LEFT MAJOR PART OF ESTATE OF FRANK A. WALLACE

Wallingford, Oct. 17. (AP) - Two daughters, both residents of Birmingham, Ala., and a son are named principal beneficiaries in the will of Frank A Wallace, silver manufacturer, filed for probate today. Mrs. Virgil W. Heard and Mrs. Charles A. Bronberg, the daughters, and their brother, Floyd Wallace of Wallingford, are given the life use of an $180,000 trust fund. In addition, they will divide equally the residue valued at about $400,000. Mr. Wallace, president of R. Wallace & Sons Company, who died last week, left $5,000 to Mrs. Robert Wallace of New York, widow of another son. Mr. Wallace's death released an $85,000 trust fund created by his wife, who died several years ago. This will be divided equally between Mrs. Heard and Mrs. Bronberg. They are left also the Wallace home in Wallingford and all household goods.

Published in The Hartford Courant, October 18, 1933, page 6