 The oldest son of Henry Cantwell Wallace, who served as the U.S. Secretary of Agriculture from 1921 to 1924, Henry A. Wallace was born in Adair County, Iowa in 1888.After graduating from Iowa State University in 1910, Wallace worked as a writer and editor for his family's farm journal, "Wallaces' Farmer".He also founded the Hi-Bred Corn Company, a hybrid corn company that eventually became extremely successful.