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Henry A. Wallace home before |
Henry A. Wallace home before restoration was complete.
Henry A. Wallace was a true pioneer. We are very proud of his accomplishments and thanks to Diane Weiland and the Henry A. Wallace Foundation, he is being honored in his hometown.
"When you think of the modest beginnings of the people like Henry A. Wallace, it's really inspiring,'' says Diane Weiland of Greenfield.
Henry A. Wallace was the developer of commercial hybrid seed corn in 1926, editor of Wallaces Farmer magazine from 1921-33, USDA secretary from 1933-40, and U.S. Vice President from 1941-1945. He left his mark on Iowa and the world.
Diane is the administrator of the Country Life Center, which comprises the Henry A.Wallace birthplace and 40 acres.
His home was an extremely modest and basic tenant home. In the late 1970's people in Adair County realized they really needed to acknowledge that this was his birthplace. A bronze plaque with Wallace's name and the year of his birth, "1888" rests on a concrete slab by the dirt road running south of the house. The Adair County Historical Society also erected a memorial in his honor at Lake Orient.
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