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__NOTOC__ Albert Joseph Wallace (February 11, 1853 – February 23, 1939) was a member of the Los Angeles, California, City Council in 1907–09 and lieutenant governor of California in 1910–14. ==Personal== Wallace was born on February 11, 1853, in Wellington County, Ontario, the son of Donald Wallace of Scotland and Harriet Lasby of England. He had nine siblings—John D., George, Francis S., Alexander H., Charles L., Frank S., Lavinia M., Matilda H. and Mary A. Albert Joseph was educated at Victoria University, Toronto. He moved to Pasadena, California, in 1886 and to Los Angeles in 1898.〔("Regents of the University of California," University of California History )〕〔〔Peter Ross, ''History of Long Island: From Its Earliest Settlement to the Present Time,'' New York (1903), Volume III, Pages 95-96, 114〕 Wallace was a University of Southern California regent in 1887 and received an honorary doctor of laws degree from that school in 1912.〔 He was president of the California Anti-Saloon League and of the Los Angeles YMCA board of directors. He was identified with the development of the Methodist Church in Southern California.〔 In 1907 Wallace was elected one of the four vice presidents of the International YMCA convention in Washington, D.C.〔(Associated Press, "Angeleno Honored by International Y.M.C.A.," ''Los Angeles Herald,'' November 24, 1907 )〕 His first wife was Serena Healy, who died in childbirth on June 19, 1882.〔(Patricia Casjens, Findagrave.com )〕 His second was Grace Alice Clark of Worcester, Massachusetts, whom Wallace met in Pasadena while she was vacationing there. They were married in Worcester about 1888, and after she moved to Los Angeles she became a charter member of the Ebell Club. They had four children, Kenneth Clark, Donald J., Helen Harriot and Katherine. She died on July 6, 1913.〔("Third Stroke Proves Fatal," ''Los Angeles Times,'' July 7, 1913 )〕 His third wife was Grace H. Wallace.〔〔(a=d&d=SFC19130707.2.13&srpos=&dliv=none&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN------- "Mrs. A.J. Wallace, Wife Lieutenant Governor, Dead," ''San Francisco Call," July 7, 1913 )〕 Wallace died at the age of 86 on February 23, 1939, in his home, 631 North McCadden Place in Hancock Park, Los Angeles.〔("Veteran State Leader Passes," ''Los Angeles Times,'' February 24, 1939, page A-12 )〕〔(Location of the Wallace home on ''Mapping L.A.'' )〕 His survivors were identified in his ''Los Angeles Times'' obituary as his widow, Mrs. Grace H. Wallace; two sons, Kenneth C. Wallace of Los Angeles and Donald H. Wallace of Long Beach; two daughters, Mrs. Helen Davis of Brooklyn, New York, and Mrs. Katherine Shannon of Bedford, Pennsylvania, and a sister, Mrs. S.F. Johnson of Pasadena. A funeral service was conducted at the First Hollywood Methodist Church, with interment at Rosedale Cemetery.〔 Grace Hagar Wallace died on September 3, 1939.〔("Vital Record," ''Los Angeles Times,'' September 5, 1939, page 16 )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Albert Joseph Wallace」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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