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Wallace was born to Thomas Wallace and the former Lula Barber in Daingerfield in Morris County in east Texas. His early education was procured in [[rural]] schools in Morris and neighboring Cass County. He received his Bachelor of Science degree from Texas A&M University-Commerce, then known as East Texas Teacher's College. Wallace began his teaching career in the 1925-1926 academic year at the White Lick community east of Sweetwater in Nolan County in West Texas; there he wed his wife, the former Ellen Kegans (January 16, 1908 – October 12, 1987), a college classmate fromMerkel in Taylor County near Abilene, and the couple had a daughter.<ref name=handbook>{{cite web|url=http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/fwaaj|author=H. Allen Anderson|title=Ernest Wallace|publisher=''Handbook of Texas: Texas State Historical Association|accessdate=September 11, 2009}}</ref>
Wallace was born to Thomas Wallace and the former Lula Barber in Daingerfield in Morris County in east Texas. His early education was procured in [[rural]] schools in Morris and neighboring Cass County. He received his Bachelor of Science degree from Texas A&M University-Commerce, then known as East Texas Teacher's College. Wallace began his teaching career in the 1925-1926 academic year at the White Lick community east of Sweetwater in Nolan County in West Texas; there he wed his wife, the former Ellen Kegans (January 16, 1908 – October 12, 1987), a college classmate fromMerkel in Taylor County near Abilene, and the couple had a daughter.<ref name=handbook>{{cite web|url=http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/fwaaj|author=H. Allen Anderson|title=Ernest Wallace|publisher=''Handbook of Texas: Texas State Historical Association|accessdate=September 11, 2009}}</ref>
The next year, he returned to East Texas to teach at Linden in Cass County, where he was also a |coach. For some eight years, he was until 1935 the superintendent of the public school in the Cornett community in Cass County. From 1935 to 1936, he taught in Tulia in Swisher County south of [[Amarillo]].<ref name=itwentybias/><ref name=handbo
The next year, he returned to East Texas to teach at Linden in Cass County, where he was also a |coach. For some eight years, he was until 1935 the superintendent of the public school in the Cornett community in Cass County. From 1935 to 1936, he taught in Tulia in Swisher County south of [[Amarillo]].<ref name=itwentybias/><ref name=handbook/>
==University career==
==University career==