DR. NATHAN G. WALLACE

Born in Dover Township, in 1855, to parents who had settled there many years before, the lad grew to maturity and lived his lifetime, till 1930, in the service of others of the Dover area.  He early displayed a taste for knowledge and attended schools under the instruction of his father, a teacher.  He worked his way through Union Seminary, a “Select” school, and Millersville Normal School, then Jefferson Medical College and postgraduate study.  He located his practice in Dover in 1883 and remained there.

As a lad of fifteen, Nathan Wallace began to teach at public school.  He continued this during winters while attending Millersville summers.  During the summers of 1880, 1881 and 1883, while studying medicine during the college year, he taught a “Select” school in Dover, and many of his students were the township’s teachers for the next twenty-five years.

As a doctor he was active in the York County Medical Society, and he served the Board of Health at county and state conventions.  As a citizen he was a member of the town council, borough treasurer for five years, and postmaster for eleven years.  He was president and trustee of Camp 55, P.O.S. of A., a Mason, and was considered a “conservative” in his Lutheran religion and Republican politics.

Dover Borough and Township are still benefiting from Dr. Wallace’s sense of responsibility to his fellow mean through the Wallace Fund.