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J. H. Wallace, M. D., is a physician of acknowledged merit throughout this section of the country, and he is especially well known in Columbia County, for he has been a resident of the same since 1860. He was born in Jefferson, Jackson County, Ga., in 1830, and is the eldest child born to Isaiah C. and Mary (Venable) Wallace, natives of South Carolina and Virginia, respectively. The father was a Methodist minister, which calling he followed for many years, and in 1860 came to Arkansas, and was soon after chosen as a representative of Columbia County in the State Legislature, and since the war filled the same position one term. During the war he served for some time in the Confederate army as captain of a company of cavalry, but after a short time resigned, and came home and there died at the age of sixty years in 1872. He and his wife were the parents of eight children, three of whom are now living: J. H., Narcissus (now Mrs. Doss, of Atlanta, Ark.), and Jefferson (an attorney-at-law). Mrs. Wallace died in 1870. The paternal grandfather, Levi Wallace, was a lieutenant in the Revolutionary War, serving the full time, and was a participant in the battle of Cowpens, and was also in a number of other engagements. The maternal grandfather, Abraham Venable, was well known in the county in Virginia in which he resided, and was a successful agriculturist. Dr. Wallace received his education at White Sulphur Springs, Ga., and at the age of twenty-three entered the Medical University of that State, an institution he attended two terms, graduating in the spring of 1856. He then entered the Jefferson School of Medicine of Philadelphia, graduating in 1857, after which he came home and entered upon his practice, moving in 1860 to Columbia County, taking up his residence near his present home. He was married in 1858 to Miss Samantha Story, of Georgia, a daughter of James Story, and to them a family of eight children were born: Isaiah (a farmer), Brooks (deceased), T. Jefferson, Mary (wife of R. McClenden), Minnie, Fannie (wife of Joe Jean), and William. The Doctor came to this county with considerable money and quite a large number of negroes, and at the close of the war, unlike so many others, was well fixed financially, owning a number of fine farms. He now owns a large amount of real estate, and has a large portion of it under cultivation, the farm on which he is now living having cost him $8,000. The Doctor has always been a highly-successful practitioner, and although he does not practice so extensively as formerly, on account of increasing years, he still has a profound respect and liking for the calling. Socially he is a member of the A. F. & A. M., Columbia Lodge No. 82.