CLASS OF 1877
Albert Wallace died September 28 at his home in Rochester, N. H., of Bright's disease.
He was born in Rochester, June 6, 1854, being the eldest son of Ebenezer G. and Sarah E. (Greenfield) Wallace. He fitted for college at Berwick (Me.) Academy. He was a member of Theta Delta Chi.
Immediately after graduation, together with his brother and classmate Sumner, he entered the shoe shop of which his father and uncle were proprietors, and learned the business from the bottom. At that day this was an unusual step for a young Bachelor of Arts to take. In due course the brothers obtained an interest in the business, and after the death of the former proprietors became its sole owners and managers. For many years the firm was one of the most prosperous in its line in New England, and both generations of proprietors amassed large fortunes. On the first of last March the two brothers retired from the business, which passed into the hands of a stock company under the name of the E. G. and E. Wallace Shoe Company.
His business ability and capacity for hard work led Mr. Wallace into many enterprises outside of the one with which his name was connected. He had long been a director and president of the Page Belting Company, a director of the Worcester, Nashua, and Rochester Railroad, director and vice-president of the Rochester Loan and Banking Company, and president of the Sequatchie (Tenn.) Handle Works, besides a connection with many other business projects.
He was very influential in the councils of the Republican party of the state, and served in the lower house of the legislature in 1893 and 1903, and in the senate in 1897. From 1897 to 1906 he was a member of the city council of Rochester.
In Masonry, he was a Knight Templar. He was a liberal contributor to many public and philanthropic objects, and was active in founding the Gafney Home for the Aged, of which he was president for many years.
May 23, 1883, he was married to Rosalie Kimball, daughter of Martin Louis and Julia Ingalls (Kimball) Burr of Rochester, who died September 23, 1888, leaving one son, Louis Burr (Dartmouth '10). October 24, 1894, he was married to Fanny Swift Chadboiirne of East Watertown, Mass., who survives him, with five children, one being Eben (Dartmouth '20).
