Wales, George E – Walker, Gilbert Carlton
Wales, George E
lawyer, jurist, state legislator, congressman, was born in Windham county, Vt. He served six years in the state legislature, and was speaker in 1823 and 1824. He was a representative in congress from Vermont from 1825 to 1829; and was judge of probate for Hartford county from 1843 to 1848.
Wales, James Albert
caricaturist, was born Aug. 30, 1852, in Clyde, Ohio.
In 1881 he went abroad, and after his return he became one of the founders of The Judge, and was for some time its chief cartoonist. He returned to Puck in 1885. He was the only prominent caricaturist of the newer school who was a native American. He died Dec. 6, 1886, in New York.
Wales, John
United States senator, was born July 31, 1783, in New Haven, Conn. He was a senator in congress from Delaware from 1849 to 1851 to fill a vacancy. He died Dec. 3, 1863, in Wilmington, Del.
Wales, Leonard E
lawyer, jurist, was born Nov. 26, 1823, in Wilmington, Del. In 1864 he was appointed judge of the superior court of Delaware for New Castle county; and continued in this position until 1884, when he resigned to accept the appointment of United States district judge for the district of Delaware.
Wales, Philip Skinner
naval officer, author, was born Feb. 27, 1837, in Annapolis, Md. He is a United States naval officer who has published a Treatise on Mechanical Therapeutics.
Wales, Salem Howe
journalist, was born Oct. 4, 1825, in Wales, Mass.
He was president of the department of parks, New York city, in 1873; president of the department of docks in 1876; and of the park commission in 1880-85. He wrote a series of letters on European travel in 1855 and 1867 for the New York Sun and Scientific American.
Wales, Samuel
clergyman, educator, author, was born March 2, 1748, in Raynham, Mass. He was minister of Milford in 1770-82, and in the latter year received the degree of D. D. from Yale, where he was professor of divinity from 1782 till his death. He published Dangers of Our National Prosperity, an election sermon. He died Feb. 18, 1794, in New Haven, Conn.
Walke, Henry
naval officer, author, was born Dec. 24, 1808, in Princess Ann county, Va. He was a naval officer appointed rear-admiral in 1870; and the author of Naval Scenes and Reminiscences of the Civil War. He died in 1896.
Walker, Albert H
lawyer, legislator, author, was born Nov. 25, 1844, in Fairfax, Vt. He received a thorough education in the common and commercial schools and graduated from the Chicago Law school.
He has attained success in his profession at Hartford, Conn.; has served with distinction as a representative in the Connecticut state legislature; and is the author of Walker on Patents, and other works. He has lectured on Patent Law in the law departments of Cornell university, and of the university of Michigan; and has argued cases in the United States courts in sixteen different states of the union.
Walker, Alexander Joseph
journalist, lawyer, author, was born Oct. 13, 1819, in Fredericksburg, Va. He was a lawyer and journalist of New Orleans; and the author of Jackson and New Orleans; History of the Battle of Shiloh; Butler at New Orleans; Duelling in Louisiana; and Life of General Andrew Jackson. He died Jan. 24, 1893.
Walker, Amasa
educator, merchant, state senator, congressman, was born May 4, 1799, in Woodstock, Conn. In 1842 he became professor of political economy at the Oberlin college, Ohio; and in 1843 visited Europe as a delegate to the peace congress; and went on the same mission in 1849. He was a member of the state legislature in 1849; was a state senator in 1850; and was secretary of state in 1851 and 1852. He was elected a representative from Massachusetts to the thirty-seventh congress to fill a vacancy. He was the author of Science of Wealth; and The Nature and Uses of Money. He died Oct. 29, 1875, in Brookfield, Mass.
Walker, Benjamin
merchant, soldier, congressman, was born in 1753 in England. He was a representative in congress from New York from 1801 to 1803. He died Jan. 13, 1818, in Utica, N. Y.
Walker, Charles C. B
congressman, was born June 27,1824, in Drewsville, N. H. He was postmaster of Corning, N.
Y., from 1856 to 1860; and was an assistant quartermaster-general at Elmira in 1861. In 1874 he was elected a representative from New York to the forty-fourth congress as a democrat.
Walker, Charles Manning
journalist, author, was born Dec. 25, 1834, in Athens, Ohio. He is a journalist of Indianapolis; and the author of History of Athens County, Ohio; First Settlement of Ohio at Marietta; and Lives of Oliver Martin and Alvin Hovey.
Walker, Cornelius
educator, clergyman, author, was born June 12, 1819, near Richmond, Va. He is an episcopal clergyman, professor in the Virginia Theological seminary from 1866; and the author of Sorrowing Not Without Hope; Outlines of Christian Theology; and Lectüres on Christian Ethics.
Walker, David
congressman. He was a representative in congress from Kentucky from 1817 to 1820. He died March 1, 1820.
Walker, David S
governor. He was governor of Florida from 1866 to 1868.
Walker, Edward Dwight
journalist, author, was born in 1859 in Long Island. He was a journalist and writer of New York city; and the author of Reincarnation, a Study of Forgotten Truth. He died in 1890.
Walker, Edwin
lawyer, was born in 1832 in Genesee county, N. Y. Through diligent study of the statutes and appointment as general solicitor for the Cincinnati, Richmond and Logansport railroad in 1860 he became an authority on corporation law, and when the general offices of his company were removed to Chicago in 1865 he made Chicago his home. During the World's fair he served as a director and he was retained by the railroads in the lawsuits growing out of the famous strike of 1894.
Walker, Edwin Sawyer
clergyman, author, was born Aug. 11, 1838, in Whiting, Vt. He has filled important pastorates in the baptist church; and is the author of The Story of My Ancestors; A History of the Springfield Baptist Association; and other works.
Walker, Elias Milburn
farmer, poet, was born Jan. 31, 1842, in Scottsville, Ill. He is a successful farmer of Mulberry, Kan.; has contributed extensively to the periodical press; and his poems have been given a place in several standard collections.
Walker, Felix
soldier, state legislator, congressman, was born July 19,1753, in Hampshire county, Va. He settled in Tryon county, N. C.; and was for many years in the state legislature. He was a representative in congress from North Carolina from 1817 to 1823. He died in 1830 in Mississippi.
Walker, Francis
congressman. He was a representative in congress from Virginia from 1793 to 1795.
Walker, Francis Amasa
soldier, educator, journalist, lawyer, college president. He was the president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology from 1881, and during the civil war a federal officer, rising to the rank of colonel, and brevetted brigadier-general in 1865. He was the author of Wages; Money; Money in its Relations to Trade and Industry; Political Economy; The Indian Question; Land and its Rent; History of the Second Army Corps; Life of General Hancock; The Making of the Nation; Double Taxation in the United States; and International Bimetallism. He died in 1897.
Walker, Freeman
United States senator, was born Oct. 25, 1780, in Charles City, Va. He was a senator in congress from Georgia from 1819 to 1821, and resigned. He died Sept. 23, 1827, in Richmond county, Ga.
Walker, George
United States senator, was born in 1768 in Culpeper county, Va. He was a senator in congress from Kentucky from 1814 to 1815. He died in 1819 in Nicholasville, Ky.
Walker, George
lawyer, banker, state senator, diplomatist, was born in 1824 in Peterborough, N. H. In 1857 he was elected to the Massachusetts senate; was re-elected, and in 1868 was a member of the lower house. He was instrumental in introducing the national system of banking into the state; engaged in business in Springfield, Mass., and became president of the Third National bank of that city. He died Jan. 15, 1888, in Washington, D. C.
Walker, George Leon
clergyman, author, was born in 1830 in Vermont. He is a congregational clergyman, pastor of a church in Hartford, Conn., from 1879; and the author of History of the First Church in Hartford, 1633-1883; Thomas Hooker: Preacher, Founder, Democrat; and Some Aspects of the Religious Life of New England.
Walker, George Ulm
lawyer, was born June 26, 1849, in Columbia, S. C.
He attended the primary school of Newberry, S. C.; Pleasant Ridge academy, Ala.; and the Southern university of Greensboro. He is one of the foremost lawyers of the south at Jacksonville, Fla.; has been assistant city attorney; and filled various other public positions of honor.
Walker, Gilbert Carlton
lawyer, banker, congressman, governor, was born Aug. 1, 1832, in Binghamton, N. Y.
In 1864 he went to Norfolk, Va. He became president of the Exchange National bank; and subsequently settled in Richmond. In 1869 he was elected governor of Virginia, serving four years. He was elected a representative from Virginia to the forty-fourth congress; and was reelected to the forty-fifth congress. He died May 11, 1885, in New York city.