William E. Wallace has spent the greater part of his life in the locality where he row lives and in his boyhood received a good education in the public schools and at college. He has always farmed and in that line has shown himself progressive and up-to-date, his farm being equipped with modern machinery and implements, while his methods are scientific and productive of results. Since 1886 he has also given much attention to the insurance business, in which he has prospered and in the course of which he has won many warm friends through his fair dealing and his equitable and prompt adjustment of losses. He also operates a printing office, which is well equipped for general job work and in which he does a large part of the program work for the clubs, schools, Granges and entertainments throughout the county. In all of his business affairs he has shown himself a man of ripe judgment and right principles, in the exercise of which he has gained the confidence and respect of all who have had dealings with him.

On November 25, 1886, Mr. Wallace was united in marriage to Miss Lua Beard, who was born March 29, 1861, and is a daughter of Andrew and Eliza (Headley) Beard. To Mr. and Mrs. Wallace have been born three children, namely: Emma Mabel and Helen Marie, who are at home; and William Andrew, who is engaged in a general insurance business in Newark, Ohio, having offices in the Newark Trust building. He was married to Miss Cecile Babcock on September 9, 1924, and resides at 213 Fairfield avenue, Newark.

Mr. Wallace is a member of the Free and Accepted Masons, belonging to a number of its branches, and Teheran Grotto, at Newark, and Eagon Chapter No. 123, O. E. S., at Hebron, Ohio. He is a republican in his political affiliation and has served as postmaster at Jacksontown and as a member of the board of education. On June 11, 1885, he was elected ruling elder of the Fairmount Presbyterian church, in which capacity he has served continuously to the present time, a period of forty-two years, and has served as superintendent of the Sabbath school for thirty-two years, during which period he has missed but one Sunday, and that was on account of sickness. He has been president of the board of directors of the Fairmount Cemetery Association for a number of years, and was a charter member of the Jacksontown Grange. In every relation of life he has been loyal and true, has consistently stood for the best things in the life of the community and has exerted a positive influence in the direction of progress and advancement in all lines of activity. For these reasons, as well as for his splendid personality, he commands the respect and good will of his fellow citizens and is regarded as one of the representative men of Licking county.

(History of Southeastern Ohio and the Muskingum Valley 1788-1928, by Thomas William Lewis, Chicago, The S. J. Clarke Publishing Co., 1928)