Editing Henry A. Wallace (section)

==Early life and education==
Henry Agard Wallace was born on October 7, 1888, on a farm near [[Orient, Iowa]], to Henry Cantwell Wallace and his wife, Carrie May Brodhead.<ref>Edward L. Schapsmeier, and Frederick H. Schapsmeier, ''Henry A. Wallace in Iowa: The Agrarian Years, 1910–1940'' (1968) p.17.</ref> Wallace had two younger brothers and three younger sisters.<ref>Culver & Hyde (2000), pp. 23–24.</ref> His paternal grandfather, "Uncle Henry" Wallace, was a prominent landowner, newspaper editor, Republican activist, and [[Social Gospel]] advocate in [[Adair County, Iowa]]. Uncle Henry's father, John Wallace, was an [[Scotch-Irish Americans|Ulster-Scots immigrant]] from the village of [[Kilrea]] in [[County Londonderry]], Ireland, who arrived in Philadelphia in 1823.<ref>Culver & Hyde (2000), pp. 3–10.</ref> May (née Broadhead) was born in [[New York City]] but was raised by an aunt in [[Muscatine, Iowa]], after her parents' death.<ref>Culver & Hyde (2000), pp. 9–10.</ref>

Wallace's family moved to [[Ames, Iowa]], in 1892 and to [[Des Moines, Iowa]], in 1896. In 1894, the Wallaces established an [[agricultural journalism|agricultural newspaper]], ''[[Wallaces Farmer]]''.<ref>Culver & Hyde (2000), pp. 11–17.</ref> It became extremely successful and made the family wealthy and politically influential.<ref>Culver & Hyde (2000), pp. 21–22.</ref> Wallace took a strong interest in agriculture and plants from a young age, when his father, a professor of dairying at Iowa State Agricultural College, invited his student, [[African-American]] botanist [[George Washington Carver]], to stay with them in the Wallace home, since Carver was barred from college housing because of his race. In gratitude, Carver took the young Henry Wallace under his wing, giving him tutorials after school on botany and plant breeding.<ref>Culver & Hyde (2000), pp. 13–14.</ref> Wallace was particularly interested in corn, Iowa's key crop. In 1904, he devised an experiment that disproved agronomist [[Perry Greeley Holden]]'s assertion that the most aesthetically pleasing corn would produce the greatest yield.<ref>Culver & Hyde (2000), pp. 26–29.</ref> Wallace graduated from West High School in 1906 and enrolled in Iowa State College later that year, majoring in animal husbandry. He joined the Hawkeye Club, a fraternal organization, and spent much of his free time continuing to study corn.<ref>Culver & Hyde (2000), pp. 29–34.</ref> He also organized a political club to support [[Gifford Pinchot]], a [[Progressivism in the United States|Progressive]] Republican who was head of the [[United States Forest Service]].<ref>Culver & Hyde (2000), p. 37.</ref>