BIOGRAPHY OF THE REV. CYRUS W. WALLACE of Manchester NH ------------------------------------ Information located at http://www.nh.searchroots.com/Manchester On a web site about GENEALOGY AND HISTORY OF MANCHESTER NEW HAMPSHIRE TRANSCRIBED BY JANICE BROWN Please see the web site for my email contact. ---------------------------------- The original source of this information is in the public domain, however use of this text file, other than for personal use, is restricted without written permission from the transcriber (who has edited, compiled and added new copyrighted text to same). ======================================================== SOURCE: Manchester, A Brief Record of its Past and A Picture of Its Present, including an account of is settlement and its growth as town and city; a history of its schools, churches, societies, banks, post-offices, newspapers and manufactures; a description of its government, police and fire department, public buildings, library, water-works, cemeteries, streets, streams, railways and bridges; a complete list of the selectmen, moderators and clerks of the town and members of the councils, marshals and engineers of the city, with the state of the cote for mayor at each election; the story of its part in the war of the rebellion with a complete list of its soldiers who went ot the war; and sketches of its representative citizens; Manchester N.H.; John B. Clark; 1875 ------------------- page 439 **** THE REV. C.W. WALLACE **** Cyrus Washington Wallace was born in Bedford [NH] March 8, 1805. He is the son of Thomas and Mercy (Frye) Wallace, and was one of a family of five brothers and two sisters, of whom two besides himself are living-- Alfred, resident in Washington, D.C., and Mrs. Hannah Pollard of Woburn, Mass., His early life was spent in agricultural and mechanical pursuits and he acquired an education in the district-school of his native town, and at Oberlin Seminar, Oberlin, Ohio. He was fitted for the ministry under the instruction of the Rev. Heman Rood and the Rev. Aaron Warner at the theological seminar at Gilman, and having been licensed to preach by the Londonderry Presbytery in April 1838, came to Manchester in May 1839, to supply the pulpit of the First Congregational church, then situated at Amoskeag Village. After its removal to its present house of worship, he was ordained and installed as its pastor, January 8, 1840. He resigned the pastoral charge in August 1873, but continued to preach in his old pulpit until December the following, since when he has supplied the pulpit of the First Congregational Church in Rockland, Mass., though retaining his residence in Manchester. He was the first minister to hold regular Sunday services in the new village on the east side of the river and his pastorate was longer than that of any other Manchester clergyman. He was sent to the state legislature in 1867 and 1868 by the Republicans of ward four, and in the latter year received the degree of Doctor of Divinity from Dartmouth College. He married, May 19, 1840, Miss Susan A. Webster, who died May 15, 1873. He afterwards married, September 30, 1874, Miss Elizabeth H. Allison. He has had no children. No man is more strongly identified with the early history of the city than Rev. Dr. Wallace. For nearly thirty-five years he bore a part in every intellectual contest and reform in Manchester. He fought without gloves and with a power we have never known equaled by any other clergyman in the state. Thoroughly honest, never double dealing, he dealt heavy blows upon the abettors of slavery, rum-selling, gambling, Sabbath-breaking, profanity, card-playing, dancing or of whatever else seemed to him wrong. He is puritanical in his notions, very cutting and severe in reproof, but at the same time very kind and tender-hearted, ready to do everything to reform young men and women and to cheer the suffering and downcast. He is a vigorous, earnest speaker and his extemporaneous efforts upon great occasions have been sometimes very eloquent. (end)