This is a transcription of the Elizabeth H. (Allison) Wallace biography from New Hampshire Women: A Collection of Portraits and Biographical Sketches of Daughters and Residents of the Granite State, Who are Worthy Representatives of their Sex in the Various Walks and Conditions of Life, The New Hampshire Publishing Co., Concord, NH, 1895, page 57.
Elizabeth H. (Allison) Wallace
AMONG the many noble women whose lives and work have been a power for good in the moral and social atmosphere of New Hampshire’s “Queen City” for the past twenty years is Elizabeth H. (Allison) Wallace, a daughter of James Allison of Dunbarton, in which town she was born, March 24, 1825. She is of the fifth generation from Samuel Allison, one of the first sixteen settlers of Londonderry, and a prominent man in the early history of that old town. Securing a thorough education (she was the first graduate of the Manchester High School, and valedictorian of the class of 1848), she entered upon the work of imparting instruction to others, and was engaged as a teacher for more than twenty years, with marked success-—six years in New Hampshire, in the Concord High School and in the Pinkerton Academy at Derry; thirteen years in Ohio, at the Ohio Female College, six miles from Cincinnati; and the last three years at Bennet Seminary, in Minneapolis, Minn. In 1874, she was united in marriage with the late Rev. C. W. Wallace, D. D., pastor of the First or Hanover Street Congregational church of Manchester, where she still resides in the house which her husband built in 1845. Mrs. Wallace always sympathized with her father and her husband in their strong anti-slavery principles, as well as in their earnest temperance views. She has been an active member of the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union since its organization. By the payment of $100 she has had her late husband’s name inscribed on a marble tablet in Willard Hall, in the famous Temperance Temple in Chicago, a memorial to his lifelong devotion to the temperance cause. She was for many years Home and Corresponding Secretary of the N. H. Branch of the Woman’s Board of Missions. She is a devoted member of the First Congregational church of Manchester, and is doing what she can for the suppression of evil and the advancement of Christ’s kingdom in the world.