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    Lincoln's Physician: a biography of Dr. William Smith Wallace
    Lincoln's Physician: a biography of Dr. William Smith Wallace
    Lincoln's Physician: a biography of Dr. William Smith Wallace
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    Lincoln's Physician: a biography of Dr. William Smith Wallace

    By Donald Motier

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    Donald Motier is the author of over 20 books including poetry, historical fiction, novellas, biographies and travel. Lincoln's Physician, a Biography of Dr. William Smith Wallace was inspired by Dr. Wayne C. Temple, retired Deputy Archivist of the Illinois State Archives and leading living authority on the life and family of Abraham Lincoln and

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    PublisherBook Vine Press
    Release dateDec 16, 2022
    ISBN9781959450986
    Lincoln's Physician: a biography of Dr. William Smith Wallace
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    Donald Motier

    Donald Motier was born in 1943 and graduated from college in 1970 with a BA in Philosophy and minor in English. He did graduate work in Philosophy on Being and Time by Martin Heidegger under the distinguished Professor Dr. Rudolph Fischer of Vienna, Austria. Following his academic career, Mr. Motier worked in the library field first as an interlibrary loan librarian at a public library from 1970-76, and as a genealogy and reference librarian at a State library 1977-1993 when he retired to write full time. In 1970, while still in college, he began writing prose-poetry in the style of Walt Whitman, Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac, publishing his first collection Faces of Being in 1971. After publishing several collection of poetry, he began writing novels, nonfiction and two works of “faction” based on the Civil War experiences of his great-grandfather who met Abraham Lincoln and his family while bivouaced on the White House lawn 1861-62 and was befriended by the president’s son William “Willie” Wallace Lincoln. On The Trak is his 15th book. I really enjoyed On The Trak. The pursuit of so many encounters, appreciation of so many human souls along the way, was very Kerouacian. - Gerald Nicosia, author, first definitive biography of Kerouac, Memory Babe.

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      Lincoln's Physician - Donald Motier

      Introduction

      I first became interested in Dr. William Smith Wallace while doing genealogical research for my historical novel Mystic Chords of Memory: The Lost Journal of William Wallace Lincoln published in 2009. Family lore claimed that I was related to Mary (Todd) Lincoln through my 5th great-grandfather Revolutionary War General Andrew Christy Porter (September 24, 1743–September 18, 1813}) who is buried in Harrisburg Cemetery. He had two daughters, and one, Anne Maria, (Mary) Parker Porter (January 1, 1781–March 8, 1839) married my 4th great-grandfather Nicholas Boyd (1772–December 20, 1840). Both the Porter and Boyd families were neighboring landowners in southern Lancaster County Pennsylvania near Peach Bottom. General Porter’s other daughter Elizabeth Rittenhouse Porter (September 27, 1769–June 21, 1850) married Robert Porter Parker (October 12,1760–March 4,1800). He was a founder of Lexington, Kentucky and Mary (Todd) Lincoln’s grandfather. Mary (Todd) Lincoln is my 2nd cousin, 3x removed and Willie Lincoln is my 3rd cousin, 2x removed.

      Further genealogical research on Ancestry.com revealed a possible family connection between the Wallace/Henderson families of East Earl, Lancaster County and the Powers/Henderson/Wallace families of Lancaster County. A brother of Dr. Wallace, Davies, married a Mary Ann Henderson. Their uncle was named Henderson Wallace, and a brother of my great-grandfather Sgt. Charles *Powers, Pennsylvania Volunteers Civil War veteran whose mother was Hannah Henderson was named Wallace Henderson Powers. This followed the 19th Century practice of giving children the last names of ancestors as first names. *Mary Porter Boyd had married Charles MacNair Powers.

      I had temporarily put thoughts of writing a biography of Dr. Wallace on the back-burner having written a sequel to Mystic Chords of Memory, Saving Lincoln in 2014, a few unrelated works, and finally a biography of Willie Lincoln, He Had Rare Lights in 2019.

      While visiting Dr. Wayne C. Temple and his wife in Springfield, Illinois in June of 2021, Dr. Temple suggested writing a biography of Dr. Wallace that has never been done and I would be the perfect person to do it.

      PART 1

      The Wallace Family of East Earl, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania 1731–1802

      "Robert Wallace came to America from Ireland in 1731 though he was by birth Scottish. He was born in Scotland in 1721 and died December 17, 1791 in East Earl, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. He married Martha Davies, daughter of John and Elizabeth Anderson Davies on August 3, 1768. They had eight children: John, Josiah, Isaac, Elizabeth, William, Davies, and James and Thomas who were

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