APPENDIX 

 HISTORY OF THE WALLACE PUBLICATIONS. 



BY A FRIEND OF THE AUTHOR. 



Mr. Wallace's early life and education Removal to Iowa, 1845 Secretary 

 Iowa State Board of Agriculture Begins work, 1856, on " Wallace's 

 American Stud Book," published 1867 Method of gathering pedigrees 

 Trotting Supplement Abandons Stud Book, 1870, and devotes exclusive 

 attention to trotting literature "American Trotting Register," Vol. I., 

 published in 1871 Vol. II. follows in 1874 The valuable essay on breed- 

 ing the forerunner of present ideas Standard adopted 1879 Its history 

 Battles for control of the " Register" Wallace's Montlily founded 1875 

 Its character, purposes, history, writers, and artists " Wallace's Year 

 Book " founded 1&85 Great popularity and value Transfer of the Wal- 

 lace publications, and their degeneration. 



THE history of the series of works known as the Wallace publications, 

 even in the brief form here contemplated, involves in a large degree the 

 biography of Mr. Wallace. It is indeed more than the sketch of a long 

 and iudefatigably industrious life-work. It involves as well, in the forty 

 years of creative labor, the development of a great productive industry, 

 and of a distinct branch of literature. Mr. Wallace's labors in the field 

 of gathering and systematizing American horse history began at a day 

 when there was no breed of trotters, or no trotting literature. When he 

 laid aside active work there were both, well established and clearly defined 

 factors in the nation's progress, and in all the years from the commence- 

 ment he was the central figure in the work of establishing a breed of trot- 

 ters, and incomparably the clearest and strongest force in the direction 

 and upbuilding of a trotting literature. That is the simple truth of his- 

 tory, which the verdict of time will render it puerile to deny. 



JOHN H. WALLACE was born August 16, 1822, and reared on a farm 

 in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania. As a boy he evinced no par- 

 ticular liking for farm work, but had a great fondness for reading. He 

 was educated chiefly at the Frankfort Springs Academy, where he was 

 prepared to enter the junior class at college. There occurred a little 

 incident at this time that illustrates how seemingly slight a thing may 

 change the current of a life. The then member of Congress for that dis- 

 trict, Mr. Dickey, a scholarly man, advised Professor Nicholson, of the 

 Academy, that if he had a young man in his institution whom he could 

 recommend, he (Mr. Dickey) would appoint him a cadet to West Point. 

 Mr. Wallace was selected, provided his father's consent was forthcoming. 

 When Mr. Wallace, Sr., was approached on the subject his reply was, 



