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    Henry Cantwell Wallace

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  1. Henry Cantwell Wallace. Henry Cantwell Wallace (May 11, 1866 – October 25, 1924) was an American farmer, journalist, and political activist who served as the secretary of agriculture from 1921 to 1924 under Republican presidents Warren G. Harding and Calvin Coolidge. He was the father of Henry A. Wallace, who would follow in his father's ...

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  2. wallace.org › who-are-the-wallaces › henry-c-wallaceHenry C. Wallace

    Henry Cantwell Wallace (Harry), the eldest son of Henry and Nancy Cantwell Wallace was born in 1866 in Rock Island, Illinois, where his father was ministering. As he grew up, the family moved into the journalism business in Winterset, Iowa and Harry became his father’s apprentice. In 1885, Harry entered Iowa Agricultural College in Ames, Iowa ...

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  4. May 30, 2019 · Henry Cantwell Wallace was a professor at Iowa State College, editor of Wallaces’ Farmer and co-founder of the American Farm Bureau Federation. He served as secretary of agriculture for two presidents from 1921 until he died in 1924.

  5. wallace.org › who-are-the-wallacesWho are the Wallaces?

    The first Henry Wallace came to Iowa in 1862 as a Presbyterian minister, and co-founded Wallaces’ Farmer agricultural journal with his sons Henry C. and John in 1895. His wife Nancy Cantwell Wallace, a journalist in her own right, edited the paper’s Hearts and Homes column.

  6. Henry Cantwell Wallace (May 11, 1866 – October 25, 1924) was an American farmer, journalist, and political activist who served as the secretary of agriculture from 1921 to 1924 under Republican presidents Warren G. Harding and Calvin Coolidge. He was the father of Henry A. Wallace, who would follow in his father's footsteps as secretary of ...

  7. Henry C. Wallace was born on May 11, 1866, at Rock Island IL to Nannie (Cantwell) and Henry Wallace. His father had come to Iowa as a minister of the gospel, had to leave that profession because of threatened tuberculosis, then returned to farming, and became one of the greatest exponents of modern agriculture in the Middle West.

  8. Henry Cantwell Wallace . Henry Cantwell Wallace, the son of Henry Wallace, Sr., was born in Rock Island, Illinois, on 11th May, 1866. His father was a Presbyterian minister who served as a chaplain with the Union Army during the American Civil War. An experience that gave him a permanent horror of war.