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Rh was reporter of the supreme court of the United States. In 1860-'84 he was president of the histori- cal society of Pennsylvania. He published " Re- porters, chronologically arranged, with Occasion- al Remarks upon their Respective Merits " (Phila- delphia, 1843) ; " Cases in the Cir- cuit Court of the United States for the 3d District" (2 vols., 1849-'53) ; " Cases argued and abridged in the U. S. Supreme Court" (23 vols., 1864 - 76) ; and "An Old Philadelphian, Colonel William Bradford, of 1776 " (1884). He also edited " British Crown Cases Reserved" (6 vols., 1839-'53) ; an address delivered at the celebration of the New York historical society, 3 May, 1863, of the 200th anniversary of the death of William Brad- ford (Albany, N. Y.,*1863); and, after the death of Horace Binney Wallace, revised the 4th edition of John William Smith's " Leading Cases " (2 vols., 1857); and "American Leading Cases" (2 vols., 1857). — Another son, Horace Binney, scholar, b. in Philadelphia, Pa., 26 Feb., 1817; d. in Paris, France, 16 Dec, 1856, was graduated at Princeton in 1835. studied medicine, chemistry, and law, the latter under his father and Charles Chauncey, but never adopted a profession, devoting himself to lit- erary pursuits. He travelled in Europe in 1849-'50 and in 1852, giving assiduous study to philosophi- cal subjects. In a fit of insanity, produced by over- work, he committed suicide. Auguste Comte said of him : " In him heart, intellect, and character united in so rare combination and harmony that, had he lived, he would have aided powerfully in advanc- ing the difficult transition through which the 19th century has to pass." He was the author of a novel entitled " Stanley, or the Recollections of a Man of the World " (Philadelphia, 1838) ; aided Rufus W. Griswold in the preparation of his " Napoleon and the Marshals of the Empire " (2 vols., 1847) ; and also wrote " Art, Scenery, and Philosophy in Eu- rope, with other Papers " (1855) ; and " Literary Criticism, and other Papers " (1856). With J. I. Clarke Hare he edited " American Leading Cases in Law" (2 vols., 1847); John William Smith's " Leading Cases " (2 vols., 1852) ; and White and Tudor's " Leading Cases in Equity " (2 vols., 1852).

WALLACE, William, Canadian member of parliament, b. near Galston, Ayrshire, Scotland, 4 Feb., 1820. He was educated at the parish school, emigrated to Canada in 1840, founded the " British- Canadian " newspaper at Simcoe in 1861, and has been its editor and proprietor ever since. He was elected for South Norfolk to the Canadian parlia- ment in 1872, re-elected in 1874 and 1878, and re- tired in 1882. He has been reeve of Simcoe, a member of the county council, and was elected mayor of Simcoe in 1884. He favors imperial fed- eration, and introduced to the Canadian parlia- ment in 1873 resolutions bearing on that question.

WALLACE, William A., senator, b. in Clearfield, Pa., 28 Nov., 1827. He received an academic education, was admitted to the bar in 1847, and devoted himself to his profession till his entrance into politics in 1862 as a member of the state senate. He served five successive terms in that body, was its speaker in 1871, senatorial delegate and chairman of the Pennsylvania delegation to the National Democratic convention in 1872, chairman of the Democratic state committee of Pennsylvania for five years, and a member of the commission to suggest amendments to the state constitution in 1874. In 1875-'81 he was U. S. senator, having been chosen as a Democrat. He was returned to the state senate in 1882, and was the author of the arbitration statute and several amendments to the Pennsylvania railroad laws. He became in- terested in developing the mineral resources of cen- tral Pennsylvania in 1881, and was president of the Beech Creek railroad.

WALLACE, William Harvey Lamb, soldier, b. in Urbana, Ohio, 8 July, 1821 ; d. in Savannah, Tenn., 10 April, 1862. He removed with his father to Illinois in 1832, and adopted the profession of law, which he was licensed to practise in 1846, but the same year volunteered as a private in the 1st Illinois regiment for the Mexican war. He rose to the rank of adjutant, participated in the battle of Buena Vista and other engagements, and after the peace resumed his profession, becoming district attorney in 1853. In May, 1861, he was appointed colonel of the 11th Illinois volunteers, and at the battle of Fort Dortelson, in February, 1862, he com- manded a brigade in Gen. John A. McClernand's division, with ability that led to his appointment as brigadier-general of volunteers. In the suc- ceeding battle of Shiloh he commanded Gen. Charles F. Smith's brigade, which for six hours withstood the assault of the enemy, and was the last to leave the field. Wallace fell, mortally wounded, in an ineffectual attempt to resist the enemy. See James Grant Wilson's " Sketches of Illinois Officers " (Chicago, 1862).

WALLACE, William James, jurist, b. in Syracuse, N. Y., 14 April, 1839. He was educated under private tutors, studied law in Hamilton college, and was admitted to the bar in 1859. He was mayor of Syracuse in 1873-'4, United States district judge for northern New York from 1874 till 1882, and since the last-named year has been United States circuit judge for the 2d judicial circuit, which includes the states of New York, Vermont, and Connecticut. Syracuse university gave him the degree of LL. D. in 1882.

WALLACE, William Ross, poet, b. in Lexington, Ky., in 1819; d. in New York city, 5 May, 1881. He was educated at Bloomington and South Hanover college, Ind., studied law in Lexington, Ky., and in 1841 removed to New York city, where he practised his profession, and at the same time engaged in literary pursuits. His first work that attracted favorable criticism, a poem entitled " Per- dita," published in the "Union Magazine," was followed by " Alban." a poetical romance (New York, 1848), and "Meditations in America, and other Poems " (1851). Other fugitive verses that attained popularity include " The Sword of Bunker Hill," a national hvmn (1861) ; " Keep Step with the Music of the Union " (1861) ; and " The Lib- erty Bell " (1862). William Cullen Bryant said of his writings : " They are marked by a splendor of imagination and an affluence of diction which show him the born poet."

WALLACE, William Vincent, musician, b. in Waterford, Ireland, 1 June, 1814 ; d, in Haute Garonne, France, 12 Oct., 1865. Under the tuition of his father he early wrote pieces for the bands and orchestras of his native place. When eighteen