Show SECY WAllACE ALLACE SUCCUMBS AT l Il I NAVY HOSPITAl I Chief of U. U S. S Agricultural Department Dies F Following Following Follow ollow- ing Operation Unconscious Unconscious I Since Morning II W WASHINGTON ASHI Oct 25 Secre Secre Secretary tary Wallace of the agriculture de department department de- de d died ed today at the Naval Kaval j de-j hospital He was 59 59 years ears of If age His Hia death resulted from toxemia J poisoning which followed an operation operation operation oper oper- performed a week ago In an I effort to relieve sciatica Mr Wallace allace had been unconscious unconscious I since early carly this morning and 1 the poisoning which h followed an operation a week ago spread rap rap- idly Mrs 1 Wallace spent the night at ather ather I her husbands husband's bedside in the Naval Naval hospital and Dr Bonne with physIcIans physicians physicians phy phy- called In for consultation yesterday including James Jame F. F Coupal personal physician to President Coolidge and Dr Thomas I Boggs of Johns Hopkins university university sity maintained a similar Vigil I II I As far back as os the family records I Igo go ancestors of Henr Henry Cantwell I Wallace allace secretary of agriculture In the tho cabinet of President CoolIdge Coolidge Coolidge Cool Cool- I idge have been identified with I agriculture Several of them at attempted attempted at- at tempted new vocations and professions professions pro pro- I but all for one reason reason or on I another returned to weld a. a a con continuous con j chain of farmers t th Mr h Wallace was born in Rock Hock Island iii May la 11 1866 the son sont of nf t Henry and Nannie Cantwell Wallace allace The elder Wallace Vallace was wasa a minister in his elder life but I retired to the farm to restore his his' health healt moving from Illinois to Iowa where where the future head of I the department of agriculture grew grew to manhood Like many another farmer boy Mr Wallace fought hard for lor or an education He worked on the farm farmin in summer and attended a village school i in 1 winter until he wa was wasy was I nw 1 I hn tnt tate Agricultural I P pcp l Wallace corn corn- com I 1 0 Y years years- y of work worl before 1 I an emergency arose which took I hint him back to the farm A A tenant I Ion on his his fathers father's fa farm m gave gae up his lease and Sir Mr Ir Wallace Vallace took up the Job for himself It was five fhe years I before he W was ws s able again to go go to college but when he did get back to school he completed a two years' years course in one I During the years Mr 11 Wallace allace was out of college he took up writing on farm topics and from that be beginning beginning he- he ginning there grew what now is known as Wallaces Wallace's Farmer This literary work also weighed strongly strong strong- I ly Iy in his appointment nt as assistant I professor Of agriculture In the Iowa State college The head of the ag agricultural agricultural agricultural ag- ag I college at that time was James Wilson afterwards secretary of agriculture for sixteen years The farm ma magazine e was fou founded ded I Jn ln 1895 by Mr Hr Ir Wallace Vallace his brother John P. P Wallace and their father The three were associated as publishers publishers pub pub- I lishers until the fathers father's death in 1916 since which the two brothers have o continued the paper Three sons of the secretary secretary- are arc now fol following following following fol- fol lowing their fathers father's footsteps and have become identified with the institution Mr Wallace Vallace married in 1887 Miss l I May Brodhead a descendant of one of the earlier families of the United I II States Statts He was of or Scotch-Irish Scotch descent his grandfather coming to I America from the north of Ireland Besides the three sons Henry A. A Wallace now e editor of the farm aria I paper John B. B Wallace Vallace and James I V. W. Wallace Mr an and Mrs Wallace Walace Ya lace have three daughters The eldest I is the wife of ot Major l Angus I McClay of Detroit lt Their second secondI daughter ter Mary l r recently became I the wife of ot Charles Bruggmann 3 of ot the Swiss legation at ats at's I s 's i 11 ui third third is Ruth E. E yalI Wal- Wal I ac ace |