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Wallis was born in Kent County, [[Maryland]], the son of Hugh Wallis and the former Hannah Brooks Wright. He was educated at Jefferson Medical College in [[Philadelphia]], [[Pennsylvania]], from which he graduated in 1860. That same year, he married the former Mary "Mollie" Howard Hyland (1840-1908), a native of Natchez in Adams County in western [[Mississippi]], and a daughter of Dr. Isaac Mitchell Price and the former Louise C. Howard. The couple had twelve children, one of whom died at the age of one year. <ref name=lahist>{{cite web|url=https://www.lahistory.org/resources/dictionary-louisiana-biography/dictionary-louisiana-biography-w/|title=Wallis, Hugh Maxwell|publisher=''A Dictionary of Louisiana Biography'': Louisiana Historical Association|accessdate=April 23, 2020}}</ref>Another, Hugh Wallis, Jr. (1863-1941), was a Houma [[attorney]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/51170338/hugh-maxwell-wallis|title=Hugh Maxwell Wallis, Jr.|publisher=Findagrave.com|accessdate=April 23, 2020}}</ref>
Wallis was born in Kent County, [[Maryland]], the son of Hugh Wallis and the former Hannah Brooks Wright. He was educated at Jefferson Medical College in [[Philadelphia]], [[Pennsylvania]], from which he graduated in 1860. That same year, he married the former Mary "Mollie" Howard Hyland (1840-1908), a native of Natchez in Adams County in western [[Mississippi]], and a daughter of Dr. Isaac Mitchell Price and the former Louise C. Howard. The couple had twelve children, one of whom died at the age of one year. <ref name=lahist>{{cite web|url=https://www.lahistory.org/resources/dictionary-louisiana-biography/dictionary-louisiana-biography-w/|title=Wallis, Hugh Maxwell|publisher=''A Dictionary of Louisiana Biography'': Louisiana Historical Association|accessdate=April 23, 2020}}</ref>Another, Hugh Wallis, Jr. (1863-1941), was a Houma [[attorney]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/51170338/hugh-maxwell-wallis|title=Hugh Maxwell Wallis, Jr.|publisher=Findagrave.com|accessdate=April 23, 2020}}</ref>
Dr. Wallis located his practice in Houma in 1861. A [[Republican Party|Republican]], he was from 1878 to 1882 a post-[[Reconstruction]] [[mayor]] of Houma. He founded and published ''The Terrebonne Times,'' a Republican-oriented journal. An [[Episcopalian]], he died in Covington in St. Tammany Parish at the age of sixty-seven and is interred at Magnolia Cemetery in Houma.<ref name=lahist/>
Dr. Wallis located his practice in Houma in 1861. A [[Republican Party|Republican]], he was from 1878 to 1882 a post-[[Reconstruction]] [[mayor]] of Houma. He founded and published ''The Terrebonne Times,'' a Republican-oriented journal,<ref name=lahist/> which was continued by a son, Morley Howard Wallis (1860-1940).<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/51084590/morley-howard-wallis|title=Morley Howard Wallis|publisher=Findagrave.com|accessdate=April 23, 2020}}</ref>
An [[Episcopalian]], Dr. Wallis died in Covington in St. Tammany Parish at the age of sixty-seven and is interred with other family members at Magnolia Cemetery in Houma.<ref name=lahist/>
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