February 16, 1882 – April 18, 1946
Born in Detroit, Allan Patton Wallace worked as a hardware clerk before moving at age 30 to Manhattan where he performed as a bit actor in five shows on Broadway from the late 1920s through the mid-1930s. The last decade of his life he resided in Traverse City where he was employed as a desk clerk at the Whiting Hotel. Wallace left a suicide note and stepped from a ledge at age 64.
Traverse City Record-Eagle, April 19, 1946
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