- Ilo Wallace
Infobox_Officeholder
name = Ilo Browne Wallace
imagesize =
birth_date = birth date|1888|3|10
birth_place = Indianola,Iowa , U.S.
death_date = death date and age|1981|2|22|1888|3|10
death_place = South Salem,New York , U.S.
occupation =Second Lady of the United States
order=Second Lady of the United States
term_start=January 20 ,1941
term_end=October 10 ,1945
predecessor =Mariette Rheiner Garner
successor =Bess Truman
religion=
spouse =Henry A. Wallace
children = Henry Browne Wallace, Jean Wallace, and Robert Browne Wallace
relations =
Ilo Browne Wallace (
10 March 1888 —22 February 1981 ) was the wife ofHenry A. Wallace , the 33rd U.S Vice President and laterSecretary of Commerce . She was theSecond Lady of the United States from 1941 until 1945. She was the sponsor of theUSS Iowa (BB-61) .Born in
Indianola, Iowa , she was the daughter of James Lytle Browne and his wife, the former Harriet Lindsay.She married Henry Agard Wallace in
Des Moines, Iowa , on20 May 1914 . They had three children: Henry Browne Wallace (1915-2005), Jean Wallace, and Robert Browne Wallace. Her husband later became the editor-in-chief of "Wallace's Farmer", an influential Midwestern farming magazine that had been founded by his father,Henry Cantwell Wallace , a future U.S. Secretary of Agriculture.A small inheritance she received from her parents enabled the Wallaces and their business partners to establish, in 1926,
Hi-Bred Corn Company , which developed and distributed hybrid maize and eventually transformed agriculture. The company is now known asPioneer Hi-Bred International , the world's second largest seed company. ["Weekly Corporate Growth Report", 22 March 1999 [http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3755/is_199903/ai_n8847853 Retrieved on 30 December 2006] ]She died at the Wallace estate, Farvue Farm, in
South Salem, New York .References
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