Jim graduated from Sandwich High School in 1911 and from Oberlin
College in 1916. He enlisted in the U.S. Navy on June 1, 1918 and
served out the war as a Lieutenant. During World War II he was again
in the Navy attaining the rank of Commander. He served as a doctor on
an attack transport in the South Pacific. After World War II he
returned to his practice as a Pediatrician in Oak Park, Illinois.
He was very close to my parents and we always referred to him as
Uncle Jim. He was our Pediatrician and my brother James Wallace
Mosher is named for him.
Robert A. Wallace and Margaret Lewis met each other when they were
only about five or six in Sandwich, Illinois where Margaret's family
often visited from Oak Park, Illinois. They both attended Oberlin
College in Oberlin, Ohio and Robert then graduated from the Art
Institute in Chicago. His first job, designing store fronts, led him
to the Libbey-Owens-Ford Class Company and he continued in the glass
business all his life. He was a talented artist and both he and
Margaret were talented pianists. They lived in Oak Park, Illinois,
New York City, Toledo, Ohio, Dallas, Texas and finally Houston, Texas.
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