Papers of the Wallace family, 1895-2006 (inclusive), 1923-1973 (bulk)

Estella Augusta Mead (1851-1942) and David Cushing Cutler (1845-1922) were married on December 25, 1871, in Acton, Massachusetts. They had four daughters and a son: Henrietta Cushing Cutler (1871-1963), Ethel Mead Cutler (1873-1959), Emma Cushing Cutler (1877-1973), David Adelbert Cutler (1879-1943), and Zelia Almira Cutler (1882-1908). David Cushing Cutler managed an orange grove in Florida for his father-in-law, Adelbert Mead, while his wife and children lived with her parents in West Acton, Massachusetts. In 1897 Henrietta married Raymond Dodge (1871-1942), a professor of psychology at Wesleyan and Yale Universities. Ethel married Edward Reed (1865-1943), an employee of Hartwell and Reed, a stone cutting company. David Adelbert Cutler and his first wife, Charlotte Mary Tehrune had one child, Adelbert Cushing Cutler (known as Cushing or "Cush") (born 1906). Adelbert Cushing Cutler and his wife, Eleanor Sybil Leslie (1906-2005), Radcliffe College Class of 1928, had two daughters, Jean (1936-) and Deborah (1940-). With his second wife, Blanche Mildred Williams (born 1887), David Adelbert Cutler had three children: David Roy Cutler (born 1910), Helen Mildred Cutler (b.1912), and Elizabeth Zelia Cutler (known as "Betty"). David Roy married twice: first to Patience, and later to Elizabeth (known as "Betsy"). Helen married Lyman Appleton, and Elizabeth ("Betty") married Archibald Lewis.

Emma Cushing Cutler and George Marcus Crowell (1872-1936) had two daughters: Sylvia Cutler Crowell (1903-1904), who died before her first birthday, and Marguerite Cutler Crowell (1906-2005). George graduated from Harvard Medical School in 1899 and became a family doctor in New Hampshire. Following his death in 1936, Emma worked as a housemother at a number of institutions including Drake University, the Cummington School (Massachusetts), Massachusetts General Hospital, New Haven Country Home for Children (Connecticut), Westover School (Middlebury, Connecticut), Cornell University, and Syracuse University. She died in November 1973.

Marguerite Cutler Crowell graduated from Radcliffe College in 1927, and, in 1930, traveled to Europe with her aunt and uncle, Henrietta and Raymond Dodge. Later she took graduate classes at Yale University. In January 1933 she married Alva Dayle Wallace (1908-1973), and they had three children: Sylvia Crowell Wallace Holton Peterson (1936- ), Zara Henrietta Wallace (1938- ), and George John Wallace (1942- ). She was a cataloger for the Everett Public Library (1927-1928), the Yale University Library (1928-1935), and the Municipal University of Omaha (1937-1938), where she began a recataloging project. She also cataloged the Wilmarth Sheldon Lewis print collection (1952-1967) in Farmington, Connecticut, at what became the Lewis Walpole Library, and was an editor at Wayne State University Press (1968-1976).

Alva Dayle Wallace (known as Dayle), son of John Watson Wallace (1871-1940) and Maggie Florence Wallace (1874-1940), was born in Mount Calm, Texas. He had two brothers, John Doyle (1898-1949) and Clayton Lavon, and a sister, Zelda Lurline (1901-1996). John married Inez Shilling. Zelda married Theron Pickens Fincher and had three children: Lynette, Barbara Jean, and Earnest. Clayton married Amanda Marie Wilkerson. After receiving his Bachelor's and Master's degrees from Texas Technological College (Lubbock, Texas), Dayle earned his Ph.D. in English from Yale University (1933). An English professor at the Municipal University of Omaha and Wayne State University, he was also one of the editors for the Horace Walpole Correspondence, published by the Yale University Press. He died in November 1973; his wife Marguerite survived him by 32 years, dying in April 2005.

Sylvia Crowell Wallace Holton Peterson (1936-) graduated from Radcliffe College in 1958, received her master's degree from Wayne State University (1959), and her Ph.D. in English from Yale University (1963). She taught at Hood College, the University of Maryland (College Park), George Mason University, and the University of the District of Columbia. She also wrote numerous books and articles. In 1964 she married William Milne Holton (known as Milne), who died in January 2000. Married to William Peterson in 2002, they worked on a joint project to compile a census of all known copies of the Kelmscott Press Chaucer.

Zara Henrietta Wallace (1938-) graduated from Radcliffe College in 1960 and received her master's degree in English from the University of Rochester in 1965. She taught at Connecticut College and was an associate dean of arts and sciences at Oberlin College. In 1970 she became involved with the New Jersey chapter of the National Organization for Women (NOW) and later the New York Radical Feminists. In 1977, she moved to California and became an editor for Nyingma Institute's Dharma Publishing. She married Roger Wilkenfeld in July 1961; they were divorced in 1974. Her second marriage to Benjamin Aquilina in 1980 also ended in divorce (1987).

George John Wallace (1942-) graduated from Yale University in 1963 and received his law degree from the University of Virginia in 1966. He taught at Tulane University, the University of Iowa, the University of Virginia, Stanford University, and Rutgers University Law School. After retiring in 2002, he founded the Center for Statistical Research (Alexandria, Virginia). He was married to Patricia Boyle in 1967, and they had two sons, Matthew (1972) and Christopher (1974). They were divorced in 1980. He married Anne Geary in 1981. They had two daughters, Claire (1984) and Suzanne (1987), and were divorced in 1999. In 2003 he married Gianne Conard.