Wallace was an attorney; law partner of Edward Peyson Gates; Jackson County Prosecuting Attorney, 1881-1885; ardent prohibitionist; Sabbatarian who led an effort to force businesses to close on Sundays; editor of The Citizen; Judge on the Jackson County Criminal Court at Kansas City, Missouri, 1907; and, most widely known as one of the prosecutors at the trial successfully prosecuting Alexander Franklin "Frank" James, 1883. Writings and speeches of William H. Wallace; letters of William H. Wallace and other family members to his wife, Elizabeth G. (Chiles) Wallace, 1887-1912; judicial and other notes. Six notebooks (1872; 1926-1930) of William H. Wallace contain appointments and other business notations; newspaper clippings; photographs; school work of Mary Chiles Wallace and William H. Wallace, Jr.; Certification of membership, Philathean Society of Westminster College, Fulton, Missouri, 1871.
