Wallace, Ernest

An historian of the American West, Ernest Wallace was born in 1906 in Daingerfield, Texas. He received a B.A. from East Texas State University, an M.A. from Texas Technological College, and his Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Austin. Wallace performed his doctoral work under Walter Prescott Webb and began teaching at Texas Technological College in 1936. In 1926, he married Ellen Kegens. Wallace became a Horn Professor of History in 1967, and was president of Texas State Historical Association in 1976. He died in 1985 in Lubbock, Texas.

From the guide to the Ernest Wallace Papers, S 1133. 1., 1899-1986 and undated, (Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library, Texas Tech University)