JAMES CHASE WALLACE 
MEMBER 
James C. Wallace was born in Cleveland on May 23, 1865, the son of 
the late Robert Wallace, a pioneer among shipbuilders. At the age of sixteen 
Mr. Wallace started to gain the knowledge which was to stand him in such 
great stead later in life by beginning a three-year machinist apprenticeship. 
In 1884 he entered the employ of the Globe Iron Works in successively the ma- 
chine shops, the shipyard and the draughting room. When the iron steamer 
Onoko came out he sailed in her as assistant engineer. In 1887 he and his 
father organized the Cleveland Shipbuilding Company. In 1890 he had 
become assistant superintendent and three years later he was chosen 
vice-president and general manager. In 1893 Mr. Wallace effected the 
crganization of the American Shipbuilding Company to take over the 
Cleveland Shipbuilding Company and he was retained as vice-president 
and general manager of the large organization. In 1904, before reaching 
his thirty-ninth year, he was chosen president to succeed A. B. Wolvin, and 
thus had worked his way up through every department of a shipbuilding 
industry. He was president of the American Shipbuilding Company for ten 
years and he was instrumental in shaping the type of construction from 
the small steel vessels to the giant steamers of 12,000 tons. 
At the time of his death Mr. Wallace was a director in the American 
Shipbuilding Company, in the Pioneer, Kinney and Valley steamship com- 
panies, and in the American Board of Lloyd’s Register of Shipping of London. 
He was a Member of this Society. He died on October 31, 1916. 
RALPH D. WILLIAMS 
ASSOCIATE MEMBER 
Ralph D. Williams was born near Nottingham, England, in 1868. He 
came to the United States and took up his residence in Cleveland, Ohio, when 
about ten years old. At an early age he became a reporter on the Cleveland 
Plain Dealer, where he rose to the managing editorship before ceasing service 
with that paper. Thereafter he became editor of the Marine Review, in which 
capacity he served for fifteen years. His health failing he relinquished active 
