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WILLIAM MANSFIELD WALLACE, M. D.
Vol. 3, p. 1156
Book has photo

A member of the medical profession for twenty years, Doctor Wallace
has spent more than fifteen years in practice in Oklahoma City. His
attainments are widely recognized both as a physician and surgeon. He
is a man of college training, of varied associations with culture,
and is now regarded as one of the leading members of his profession
in the state.

William Mansfield Wallace was born at Lexington, Kentucky, January
20, 1874, a son of William A. and Margaret Lavina (FRANKLIN) Wallace.
His grandfather was a native of England, came to the Unites States in
young manhood, and located in Illinois, where William A. Mansfield
was born. The latter subsequently removed to Fayette County,
Kentucky, and was one of the pioneer physicians there. Margaret
Lavina (Franklin) Wallace was born in Fayette County, Kentucky, and
her father was a pioneer settler in Arkansas, a native of Illinois,
and in the early days taught school in and around Bentonville,
Arkansas.

Doctor Wallace received his early education in the high school at
Louisville, Kentucky, where he graduated at the age of fourteen. From
that time until the age of twenty he worked in a drug store and read
medicine in his uncle's office. He was a student by inclination, and
while his ambition has been steadily directed toward successful
attainment in his chosen profession, he has also from an early age
been a devotee of literature. As a young man he read and made a part
of his mental equipment the great works of Shakespeare and other
classic authors, and these associations brought out the latent
talents within himself, so that for years his own pen has been more
or less active in literary productions. Safely stored in the archives
of his home and office are stacks of manuscript both in prose and
verse that represent his varied efforts in the field of literature.
Many of these productions have appeared in newspapers and magazines,
and although urged by publishers to compile and issue them in book
form, he has so far failed to do so. While his broad acquaintance
with classic literature has caused his writing to follow the classic
form and methods, he has individuality and force of his own in
literary matters, and those who have read his compositions will
readily recall the facile and charming style that pervades all his
work.

Doctor Wallace was graduated M. D. in 1896 from Tulane University at
New Orleans. He had previously begun to practice medicine at
Louisville, Kentucky at the age of twenty-one, being authorized to
practice after examination. For three years following his graduation
he was associated with his uncle, Dr. W. A. Wallace, in practice at
New Orleans, and then came to Hugo, Oklahoma, as local surgeon and
physician for the Frisco Railway Company. Doctor Wallace stayed in
Hugo three years, for a similar time was located at Sulphur Springs,
and while there established the Wallace Sanitarium, a popular
institution still in existence.

In 1907 Doctor Wallace removed to Oklahoma City, where he was at
once recognized among the leading members of the profession as a man
worthy of their friendship and confidence and by the public as a
conscientious gentleman and scholar. He is often honored by
invitations to lecture before medical bodies, and no small part of
his professional activity is in consultation practice and surgical
operations. He has been peculiarly successful as a surgeon, and has
the entrée of all the leading hospitals of Oklahoma City.

Doctor Wallace is affiliated with the Independent Order of Odd
Fellows, the Knights of Pythias and the Knights of Khorassan, the
dramatic order of the Knights of Pythias.

At San Angelo, Texas, May 20, 1890, he married Miss Callie Ottre
MUSICK, daughter of Thomas and Mary (NEAL) Musick, both of them
natives of Texas. They have one son and one daughter: Grace, born
June 24, 1896; and Earl Ingersol, born May 4, 1900. Doctor Wallace
and family reside at 1736 West Eight Street and his offices are at
1321/2 West Main Street in Oklahoma City.

Typed for OKGenWeb by Lois L. Coffelt, November 6, 1998.