JUDGE A. WELLINGTON WALLACE
Was born in the city of Fredericksburg, Virginia. He was educated at
Fredericksburg, and at the preparatory school of Mr. William Dinwiddie,
in Albemarle county, Virginia, studied law at the University of Virginia
during part of the session of 1861, and was licensed to practice at
Fredericksburg in May, 1866. During the war he served as a private
in the 30th Virginia regiment, and after the surrender of the Army of
Northern Virginia at Appomattox C. H., he returned to Fredericksburg
where he has ever since resided, engaged in the practice of law. He was
elected to and served in the Legislature of Virginia, for the sessions of
1886-7, was a delegate to the National Democratic Convention which
met at Cincinnati in 1880; was elected Judge of the Corporation Court
of Fredericksburg by the legislature of Virginia in January, 1888, and
is now executing the duties of that office.
Judge Wallace's father was Dr. John H. Wallace, who was born in
Stafford county, Virginia, in 1795, at "Liberty Hall," the seat of his
father, John Wallace. The latter died in Fredericksburg, Virginia, in
1873. He was mayor of the city of Fredericksburg, and for many years
previous to the war was president of the Farmers Bank of Virginia at-Fredericksburg.
The mother of Judge Wallace was Mary Nicholas
Gordon, daughter of Samuel Gordon, born at Falmouth, Stafford
county, Virginia, in 1805, died at Fredericksburg in 1877. His wife,
whom he married at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on April 30, 1883, is
Victoria, daughter of Capt. Charles K. Stevens, of Philadelphia, born
there, died in 1874, and his wife Susan, who was born in 1829 and died
in 1879.
Judge Wallace and his wife are members of St. George Episcopal
church, Fredericksburg, of which he is a vestryman.
