Henry Cantwell "Harry" Wallace (May 11, 1866 – October 25, 1924) was an American farmer, journalist, and political activist who served as the Secretary of Agriculture from 1921 to 1924 under Republican presidents Warren G. Harding and Calvin Coolidge. He was the father of Henry A. Wallace, who would follow in his father's footsteps as Secretary of Agriculture and later became Vice President under President Franklin D. Roosevelt. He was an editor of Wallaces' Farmer from 1916 to 1921. Early years Born May 11, 1866, in Rock Island, Illinois, Wallace was the first child and son of Henry Wallace and Nancy "Nannie" (née Cantwell) Wallace. John Wallace, father of the elder Henry, was an Ulster Scots immigrant from the village Kilrea in County Londonderry, Ireland who arrived in Philadelphia in 1823 and later owned a farm in western Pennsylvania, which the elder Henry worked on as a child with his seven siblings. The elder Henry moved west at 18 and became a Presbyterian minister. He married Nancy Cantwell, the daughter of an Ohio politician, in 1863. The elder Henry moved the family to Winterset, Iowa in 1877 on a doctor's recommendation. The family managed farm lands in Adair County, and his health improved significantly. He then entered the local newspaper business; he bought the Winterset Chronicle and the Madisonian, and wrote for both from a Republican perspective. The younger Henry worked as his father's apprentice in the newspaper business. In 1883, the elder Henry was named editor of The Iowa Homestead, the largest farming publication in Iowa, and moved to Des Moines to be closer to his work. However, The Iowa Homestead was acquired by James Pierce in 1885. In 1895, the elder Henry disagreed with Pierce, and left to join The Farm and Dairy, an agricultural paper operated by his sons. By 1898, this paper had been renamed Wallaces' Farmer. (The Homestead and Farmer were bitter rivals for many years; in 1929 the Wallaces bought the Homestead. In 1932, due to the Depression, the Farmer went bankrupt, and was acquired by Dante Pierce (son of James.) It is now owned by Penton Media.) Iowa State Agricultural College Henry left Winterset in 1885 to attend Iowa State Agricultural College, now Iowa State University; he left the college in 1887 and later said "very little agriculture was taught [at the school]". He married Carrie May Brodhead, whom he met at the