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Isaac A. Wallace, farmer, was born in December 7, 1841 , in the Twelfth District of Hamilton County. He was the sixth of ten children born to Benjamin and Mary ( Anderson ) Wallace.

The father was born in Blount County , and educated at Marysville College of that county, for the ministry. He was one of the first Presbyterian preachers of the Twelfth District, and was a successful minister of the gospel. He had two sons who were ministers in the same church.

Both father and mother were of Scotch-Irish descent, the former born about 1808 and died about 1855, the latter was born in 1811.

Isaac was educated in the common schools of the Twelfth District. He began life a poor man, has accumulated considerable property and was quite comfortably fixed. He owned 200 acres of land which was considered the best farm near Soddy.

He married Miss Nancy McDonald, a granddaughter of Col. William Clift, and also a granddaughter of James McDonald, one of the early settlers of the county. Mrs. Wallace was born in December, 1844, in Hamilton County , and by her marriage became the mother of six children: Benjamin E., James P. (deceased), Joseph W., Albert E., Fannie B. and Mary A.

Mr. and Mrs. Wallace are members of the Presbyterian Church of which he has been an Elder for ten years. Mr. Wallace was a Democrat and cast his first presidential vote for H. Seymour. He clerked in the Soddy Coal Company's grocery department.

His father was an early settler of Hamilton county, and was a very successful school teacher. J. Albert Wallace, a brother of Isaac, was one of the leading educators of Sullivan County . He is president of King's College at Bristol , where Isaac A.'s oldest son was attending school.