Elsie Wallace

Elsie May Marble Wallace (1868–1946) was an American Wesleyan leader in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century.

In 1897 Wallace founded a holiness mission in Spokane, Washington. In 1902 the mission became church, part of the Church of the Nazarene, and Wallace became the first pastor, ordained by . The church today is .

Wallace also started churches in Ashland, Oregon; Boise, Idaho, Walla Walla, Washington and Seattle, Washington. She became district superintendent, the first woman to hold that post, and the last until 1988.^[1]

References[]

^ Annie Russell (2008). The Westminster Handbook to Women in American Religious History. editors Susan Hill Lindley, Eleanor J. Stebner. Westminster John Knox Press. pp. 227–228. ISBN 9780664224547. Retrieved 2 August 2014.

External links[]

Elsie Wallace—Mother of the Northwest District by Stan Ingersol, 27 September 2012

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[1] Annie Russell (2008). The Westminster Handbook to Women in American Religious History. editors Susan Hill Lindley, Eleanor J. Stebner. Westminster John Knox Press. pp. 227–228. ISBN 9780664224547. Retrieved 2 August 2014.

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