Wallace, Robert (2)

a minister of the Reformed Presbyterian Church, was born in the parish of Loughgilly County of Armiagh, Ireland, in December, 1772. He was educated at the University of Glasgow, from which he graduated in 1810. The next spring he removed to America with his family, consisting of a wife and four children. He studied theology under Dr. Wylie, of Philadelphia, and was licensed in 1814. In the autumn of the same year he received a call from two societies, one in Kentucky and the other near Chillicothe, O., and was ordained and installed in the pastorate. He continued in this relation until 1820, when he resigned the charge in Kentucky and retained the one near Chillicothe. He was instrumental in organizing several societies within convenient distance of his, home. In 1822 he received a call from the three societies which he had established at Salt Creek. Here he continued to labor as pastor of these societies and as missionary to the adjoining neighborhoods during the remainder of his life. He died July 19, 1849. See Sprague, Annals of the Amer. Pulpit, 9. p. 66 sq.