WILLIAM A. WALLACE, merchant, Auburn, Illinois, was born in Council Bluffs, Iowa, on the 31st day of December, 1858. Received a good business education in Springfield. When fourteen years of age he commenced driving a delivery wagon for J. W. Bittenger, of Springfield, and remained in that position for six months, when he was called into the office as bookkeeper, where he remained two years, when Mr. B. sold out and he was employed by his successor for a short time. He afterward went to Mechanicsburg, where he was employed in a store for an uncle for three years. Then came to Auburn, where he was employed as an agent, a short time, when he embarked in his present business. Mr. Wallace commenced a poor boy, and by his own exertions has accumulated a fine property, and is one of the enterprising business men of the town.