Reinterred in Mount Hope Cemetery in 2009 from his crypt in the St. Patrick Church when it was closed.
Obituary taken from: The Sacred Heart Review, number 20/November 9, 1907
DEATH OF MONSIGNORE WALLACE OF LEWISTON, ME.
The Very Rev. Monsignore Thomas H. Wallace, pastor of St. Patrick's Church, Lewiston, Me., died there Nov. 1, and was buried with a solemn requiem high Mass from the church, Nov. 5. Father Wallace was born at Somereworth, N. H., and after graduating from the schools of his native town, entered Holy Cross College in 1864. Having graduated he went to the Grand Seminary, Montreal, and was ordained in Portland, Me., by Bishop Bacon, Aug. 5, 1871. After several years as assistant at Waterloo, he was transferred to St. Dominic's, Portland, where he was assistant for two years and pastor for three. In 1876 he was sent to Lewiston as pastor of St. Joseph's. There he did splendid work in building up the parish both spiritually and temporally. In 1887 he began the erection of St. Patrick's Church, the first Mass being celebrated there on Christmas Day, 1890. Since then he added to and improved the property of the parish in many ways, and ecclesiastical honors were bestowed upon him, attesting how his work was recognized and appreciated in Rome.
We can do no better than by closing this brief sketch with the words which were written of him in the Review in 1896, the years since then only making more striking the truth of what was then said in his praise :— "To his personal influence is to be attributed, in great part, the splendid feeling that exists today in Lewiston between Catholics and Protestants, for the latter judging the former through the Catholic pastor, have grown in their appreciation of the children of the old Church. In all movements tending toward the public good, Father Wallace always has been at the front; and his services in the cause of education are manifest, not only in the building and management of the parish school, but also in the fact that for eighteen years he has been a valued member of the Lewiston School Board, thrice serving as its president. . . . He is highly esteemed in clerical circles for his single-mindedness and his sturdiness of character, as well as for the work which he has accomplished." R. I. P.
Obituary taken from: The Sacred Heart Review, number 20/November 9, 1907
DEATH OF MONSIGNORE WALLACE OF LEWISTON, ME.
The Very Rev. Monsignore Thomas H. Wallace, pastor of St. Patrick's Church, Lewiston, Me., died there Nov. 1, and was buried with a solemn requiem high Mass from the church, Nov. 5. Father Wallace was born at Somereworth, N. H., and after graduating from the schools of his native town, entered Holy Cross College in 1864. Having graduated he went to the Grand Seminary, Montreal, and was ordained in Portland, Me., by Bishop Bacon, Aug. 5, 1871. After several years as assistant at Waterloo, he was transferred to St. Dominic's, Portland, where he was assistant for two years and pastor for three. In 1876 he was sent to Lewiston as pastor of St. Joseph's. There he did splendid work in building up the parish both spiritually and temporally. In 1887 he began the erection of St. Patrick's Church, the first Mass being celebrated there on Christmas Day, 1890. Since then he added to and improved the property of the parish in many ways, and ecclesiastical honors were bestowed upon him, attesting how his work was recognized and appreciated in Rome.
We can do no better than by closing this brief sketch with the words which were written of him in the Review in 1896, the years since then only making more striking the truth of what was then said in his praise :— "To his personal influence is to be attributed, in great part, the splendid feeling that exists today in Lewiston between Catholics and Protestants, for the latter judging the former through the Catholic pastor, have grown in their appreciation of the children of the old Church. In all movements tending toward the public good, Father Wallace always has been at the front; and his services in the cause of education are manifest, not only in the building and management of the parish school, but also in the fact that for eighteen years he has been a valued member of the Lewiston School Board, thrice serving as its president. . . . He is highly esteemed in clerical circles for his single-mindedness and his sturdiness of character, as well as for the work which he has accomplished." R. I. P.
Reinterred in Mount Hope Cemetery in 2009 from his crypt in the St. Patrick Church when it was closed.
Obituary taken from: The Sacred Heart Review, number 20/November 9, 1907
DEATH OF MONSIGNORE WALLACE OF LEWISTON, ME.
The Very Rev. Monsignore Thomas H. Wallace, pastor of St. Patrick's Church, Lewiston, Me., died there Nov. 1, and was buried with a solemn requiem high Mass from the church, Nov. 5. Father Wallace was born at Somereworth, N. H., and after graduating from the schools of his native town, entered Holy Cross College in 1864. Having graduated he went to the Grand Seminary, Montreal, and was ordained in Portland, Me., by Bishop Bacon, Aug. 5, 1871. After several years as assistant at Waterloo, he was transferred to St. Dominic's, Portland, where he was assistant for two years and pastor for three. In 1876 he was sent to Lewiston as pastor of St. Joseph's. There he did splendid work in building up the parish both spiritually and temporally. In 1887 he began the erection of St. Patrick's Church, the first Mass being celebrated there on Christmas Day, 1890. Since then he added to and improved the property of the parish in many ways, and ecclesiastical honors were bestowed upon him, attesting how his work was recognized and appreciated in Rome.
We can do no better than by closing this brief sketch with the words which were written of him in the Review in 1896, the years since then only making more striking the truth of what was then said in his praise :— "To his personal influence is to be attributed, in great part, the splendid feeling that exists today in Lewiston between Catholics and Protestants, for the latter judging the former through the Catholic pastor, have grown in their appreciation of the children of the old Church. In all movements tending toward the public good, Father Wallace always has been at the front; and his services in the cause of education are manifest, not only in the building and management of the parish school, but also in the fact that for eighteen years he has been a valued member of the Lewiston School Board, thrice serving as its president. . . . He is highly esteemed in clerical circles for his single-mindedness and his sturdiness of character, as well as for the work which he has accomplished." R. I. P.
Obituary taken from: The Sacred Heart Review, number 20/November 9, 1907
DEATH OF MONSIGNORE WALLACE OF LEWISTON, ME.
The Very Rev. Monsignore Thomas H. Wallace, pastor of St. Patrick's Church, Lewiston, Me., died there Nov. 1, and was buried with a solemn requiem high Mass from the church, Nov. 5. Father Wallace was born at Somereworth, N. H., and after graduating from the schools of his native town, entered Holy Cross College in 1864. Having graduated he went to the Grand Seminary, Montreal, and was ordained in Portland, Me., by Bishop Bacon, Aug. 5, 1871. After several years as assistant at Waterloo, he was transferred to St. Dominic's, Portland, where he was assistant for two years and pastor for three. In 1876 he was sent to Lewiston as pastor of St. Joseph's. There he did splendid work in building up the parish both spiritually and temporally. In 1887 he began the erection of St. Patrick's Church, the first Mass being celebrated there on Christmas Day, 1890. Since then he added to and improved the property of the parish in many ways, and ecclesiastical honors were bestowed upon him, attesting how his work was recognized and appreciated in Rome.
We can do no better than by closing this brief sketch with the words which were written of him in the Review in 1896, the years since then only making more striking the truth of what was then said in his praise :— "To his personal influence is to be attributed, in great part, the splendid feeling that exists today in Lewiston between Catholics and Protestants, for the latter judging the former through the Catholic pastor, have grown in their appreciation of the children of the old Church. In all movements tending toward the public good, Father Wallace always has been at the front; and his services in the cause of education are manifest, not only in the building and management of the parish school, but also in the fact that for eighteen years he has been a valued member of the Lewiston School Board, thrice serving as its president. . . . He is highly esteemed in clerical circles for his single-mindedness and his sturdiness of character, as well as for the work which he has accomplished." R. I. P.
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