Biography of John Wallace
From HISTORY OF MADISON COUNTY
W. H. Beers [Chicago, 1883]
Page 950
JOHN WALLACE, editor and proprietor of the London Enterprise, London, was born in London June 4, 1838. At the age of twelve years, owing to the want of means, he was compelled to leave school, and entered the office of the London Sentinel, then published by G. W. Sprung, where he remained until the winter of 1855-56, when through the influence of friends, he was appointed as page in the Ohio Senate by Lieut. Gov. Myers. At the organization of the Senate, in January, 1860, through the influence of Hon. R. A. Harrison, he was elected Second Assistant Sergeant-at-Arms, and given the post office department. On May 26, 1862, he was married to Miss E. F. Baker, of Franklin County. In 1863, in connection with J. B. Stine, he bought out the London Union, now the London Times, and
operated it one year, which embraced the famous Brough-Vallandigham campaign. On January 1, 1872, Mr. Wallace established the London Enterprise as an independent newspaper. In April, 1879, the Enterprise was made Republican at the solicitation of the Republican County Executive Committee, and is to-day the Republican organ of Madison County. Mr. Wallace has printed the paper eleven years, three of them under the disadvantage of loss of sight. During the eleven years, the paper has neither changed hands or name, or missed a publication.
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