Manuscript Group 192 PAUL A. W. WALLACE PAPERS 1931-1967 30.5 cu. ft.
A noted anrthropologist, historian, and folklorist, Dr. Paul A. W. Wallace (b.
1891, d. 1967) earned national recognition for his studies of both Pennslvania
German culture and the Indians of Pennsylvania, New York, and Canada. Born in
Toronto, Wallace conducted extensive ethnographic fieldwork among the Iroquois
and Huron tribes at the Six Nations Reserve in Brantford, Ontario, as well as
in other Indian communities located in Canada and western New York. After developing
a close friendship with Aren Akweks (Ray Fadden) of the Akwesasne Mohawk Counselor
Organization, Wallace was adopted into the Mohawk Nation on July 15, 1949, taking
the name Tor-ri-wa-wa-kon ("holding a message"). He served for many
years as chairman of the Department of English, Lebanon Valley College; editor
of Pennsylvania History, quarterly journal of the Pennsylvania Historical
Association, 1951-1957; consultant to the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission,
1951-1957; and historian on the staff of the Historical and Museum Commission,
1957-1965. His numerous publications include Conrad Weiser, 1696-1760, Friend
of Colonist and Mohawk (Philadelphia, 1945); The White Roots of Peace:
The Muhlenbergs of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, 1950); Indian Paths of Pennsylvania
(Harrisburg, 1952 and subsequent editions); Thirty Thousand Miles with
John Heckewelder (Pittsburgh, 1958); and Indians in Pennsylvania (Harrisburg,
1961).
The Paul A. W. Wallace Papers consist of research notes, manuscripts, annotated
books and articles, newspaper clippings, photographs and extensive correspondence
files relating to Wallace's professional career. They compliment the 6.5 linear
feet of the Paul A. W. Wallace Papers (1754-1966) that are part of the more extensive
Wallace Family Papers (APS Manuscript Collection 64) held by the American Philosophical
Society. For related types of materials on Pennsylvania Indians at the Pennsylvania
State Archives see also the Merle H. Deardorff Collection (Manuscript Group 220)
and the Donal H. Kent Collection (Manuscript Group 395).