Robert Craig Wallace Papers 1872-1928

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Robert Craig Wallace Papers 1872-1928

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Robert Wallace (1837-1928) was a Helena, Montana, grocery store owner, and partner in the Elkhorn Queen Mining Company. Collection consists primarily of records (1884-1892) of the Davis and Wallace and the R.C. Wallace Company grocery businesses, including ledgers, invoices, and inventories. There are also subgroups for the Dearborn Land and Livestock Company, Elkhorn Queen Mining Company and the W.C. Gillette Company, and for the personal papers of Robert Wallace and his partner James L. Davis.

3 linear feet of shelf space

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Montana Historical Society Archives

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Wallace, Robert C., 1837-1928

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Robert Craig Wallace was born in Ayrshire, Scotland, on February 26, 1837, the son of John and Agnes (Craig) Wallace. When Robert was seven, the family emigrated to the United States, settling in Detroit. Robert left school at age fifteen and went to work for a grocery where he worked for seven years. In 1860 he opened his own grocery, but when the Civil War began the following year Wallace enlisted. He served two terms of enlistment in the First Michigan Volunteer Infantry and the ...