Wallace was born in Ballinamore, County Leitrim, Ireland and died in Detroit, Wayne County, Michigan, US.
[1] He became a wealthy businessman, operating a stone quarry in Berea, Ohio.
In the 1850s, he gave land and money to the Baldwin Institute to fund the education of the local German workforce and establish teaching in German.
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