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WALLACE, ORIGEN, farmer and breeder of blooded stock; Sec. 34; P. O. Clayton; was born in Garrard county, Ky., Dec. 31, 1817. His parents were Allen and Ann Wallace, the former born in Virginia, the latter in Kentucky. His mother’s father served seven years in the Revolutionary War. He came to Illinois and settled on the farm where he now lives, in 1851. He married Nancy Weir, Sept. 13, 1853. She was born in South Carolina, Dec. 21, 1826. They have had six children, five living: John W., Cylon O. (dead), Samuel A., Ann Allen, William T., and James S. Mr. Wallace has paid special attention to breeding the celebrated Magie hogs for nearly twenty years. He exhibited the first lot of this stock ever shown at a State Fair in Illinois; and to him is largely due the dissemination of this valuable breed in many of the Western States. He owns 160 acres in the home farm, on Sec. 34,150 acres in Concord township, on Sec. 3, and twenty acres in Sec. 7 of same township.