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JAMES WALLACE, farmer, post office Sturgeon, was born in County Down, Ireland, in 1838. In 1848 Charles Wallace, who followed weaving in his native country, came to America and purchased a farm in South Fayette township, on Battle ridge, known as the Dunlevy farm, and there resided for twenty years; he married Mary Gamble, and by her had nine children, all of whom are dead but two; he died in 1873, aged seventy-two years. James, whose name heads this sketch, was educated at the common schools in this, country, and has always been a farmer. He married, in 1864, Mary A., daughter of Hugh and Mary (Bell) Sproul, of this county, and six children have been born to them, four living: Minnie B., Joseph F., Nettie J. and. Ralph S. Mrs. Wallace died in 1886, aged forty-six years. Mr. Wallace and family are members of the U. P. Church.

Hugh Sproul (deceased), father of Mrs. Wallace, was a descendant of one of the pioneers of South Fayette township, also named Hugh, who took up and settled on, four hundred acres of land, at that time a vast wood-tract. He married Ann Hambleton, who bore him a large family, among whom was Hugh, Jr., the father of Mrs. Wallace. He was born in 1797 and died in 1873. Hugh, Jr., married Mary, daughter of John and Mary (Jackson) Bell, and became the father of two children: Mary A. (Mrs. Wallace) and Sarah Jane (Mrs. Sterling). His widow, now in her seventy-eighth year, resides on the home farm, and is remarkably active and well preserved for a lady of her advanced age.