Walker, Harriet G – Walker, Leroy Pope
Walker, Harriet G
reformer, philanthropist, was born Sept. 10, 1841, in Brunswick, Ohio. More than twenty years ago she turned her attention to charitable work, and is to - day associated with many of the charities of Minneapolis, Minn. For twenty years she has been secretary of the Reformatory for Women called the Bethany Home. She is president of the Northwestern Hospital for Women and Children; and is national vice-president and state president in the Non-Partisan Woman's Christian Temperance union. She is chairman of the police matron joint committee; and in 1892 was elected to the presidency of the woman's council, which is a delegate association representing all the organized woman's work of Minneapolis.
Walker, Henderson
lawyer, jurist, governor, was born in 1660. He was a lawyer, judge of the supreme court, and president of the council, and introduced important reforms in the judiciary. He was governor of North Carolina from 1699 until his death. He died April 14, 1704, in Edenton, N. C.
Walker, Isaac P
United States senator, was born in 1813 in Virginia. He was a presidential elector in 1841, and was a senator in congress from Wisconsin, from 1848 to 1855. He died April 1, 1872, in Milwaukee, Wis.
Walker, James
clergyman, college president, author, was born Aug. 16, 1794, in Burlington, Mass. He was a unitarian clergyman, minister at Charlestown, Mass., in 1818-38, president of Harvard university in 1853-60, and the author of Lectures on Natural Religion; Lectures on the Philosophy of Religion; Sermons Preached in the College Chapel; and Discourses. He died Dec. 23, 1874, in Cambridge, Mass.
Walker, James Alexander
soldier, lawyer, congressman, was born Aug. 27, 1832, in Augusta county, Va. He entered the confederate army in 1861, and was promoted to colonel of the thirteenth Virginia infantry in 1862, and in 1863 was promoted to brigadier-general. He was elected commonwealth's attorney for Pulaski county in 1860; represented Pulaski county in the house of delegates of Virginia in 1871-72; and was elected lieutenant-governor of Virginia in 1877. He was elected to the fifty-fourth and fiftyfifth congresses as a republican.
Walker, James Barr
clergyman, author, was born July 29, 1805, in Philadelphia, Pa. He was a popular presbyterian clergyman in Ohio and Illinois, and the author of Philosophy of the Plan of Salvation; Poetry of Reason and Conscience; Pioneer Life in the West; God Revealed in Nature and in Christ; Philosophy of Skepticism and Ultraism; The Divine Operation in the Redemption of Man; Living Questions of the Age; Doctrine of the Holy Spirit; and Poems. He died March 6, 1887, in Wheaton, Ill.
Walker, James Bradford Rich- Mond
clergyman, author, was born April 15, 1821, in Taunton, Mass. He is a congregational clergyman of Massachusetts, and the author of Comprehensive Concordance to the Holy Scriptures.
Walker, James Daniel
soldier, lawyer, United States senator, was born Dec. 13, 1830, in Logan county, Ky. He served in the confederate army as a colonel, and was solicitor-general of the state for a time. He was a presidential elector in 1876; and in 1879 took his seat as a senator of the United States from Arkansas for the term of six years.
Walker, James E
physician, surgeon, was born May 21, 1854, in Nunda, N. Y. He studied medicine at the Cincinnati Medical college, the New York Polyclinic, Kings college of London, England, and did post-graduate work in Berlin, Vienna, and other European cities. He is superintendent of the Steuben sanitarium of Hornellsville, N. Y., one of the most complete and modern health institutions in the United States. He is a member of the American Medical association and the leading medical and surgical societies of America.
Walker, James Murdock
lawyer, author, was born Jan. 10, 1813, in Charleston, S. C. He was a South Carolina lawyer, and the author of The Theory of Common Law; Tract on Government; The State versus Bank of South Carolina; and Roman Jurisprudence in the Law of Real Estate. He died Sept. 18, 1854, in Charleston, S. C.
Walker, James Perkins
journalist, author, was born in 1829 in Portsmouth, N. H. He was a Boston publisher, and the author of Faith and Patience, a story for boys; Book of Raphael's Madonnas; and Sunny-Eyed Tim. He died May 10, 1868, in Boston, Mass.
Walker, James Peter
congressman, was born March 14, 1851, in Lauderdale county, Tenn. In 1867 he moved to Missouri; and was elected from Dexter to the fiftieth congress as a democrat. was
Walker, Jesse
missionary, born about 1760 in North Carolina. He became presiding elder of the Illinois district in 1812, conference missionary in 1819, and in 1820 built the first methodist episcopal church and formed the first methodist episcopal congregation in St.
Louis, Mo. He died Oct. 5, 1835, in Cook county, Ill.
Walker, John
United States senator, was born Feb. 13, 1744, in Castle Hill, Va. He was a senator in congress from Virginia during the year 1790. He died Dec. 2, 1809, in Orange county, Va.
Walker, John Brisben
editor, publisher, was born Sept. 10, 1847, on the Monongahela river, Pa. In 1889 he came to New York, purchased the Cosmopolitan Magazine, then an insolvent property, having a circulation of 16,000 copies, infused great life into the magazine, and brought its circulation up to nearly 400,- 000 copies a month.
Walker, John Grimes
naval officer, was born March 20, 1835, in Hillsborough, N. H. He became lieutenant in 1858. He was promoted to lieutenantcommander in 1862, and had command of the river iron-clad Baron de Kalb.
Walker, John H
lawyer, jurist, was born in Pennsylvania. He was appointed a judge of the United States court for the district of Pennsylvania.
Walker, John Williams
United States senator, was born in 1789 in Virginia. He was a senator in congress from Alabama from 1819 to 1822. He died April 23, 1823, in Huntsville, Ala.
Walker, Jonathan
reformer, was born in 1799 on Cape Cod, Mass. For five years he lectured on slavery in the northern and western states. He removed to Michigan about 1850, where he resided near Muskegon until his death. He was the subject of John G. Whittier's poem, The Man with the Branded Hand. He died May 1, 1878, in Muskegon, Mich.
Walker, Joseph
governor. He was elected governor of Louisiana in 1850, and held the once until 1854.
Walker, Joseph
soldier, farmer, legislator, was born May 6, 1829, in England. During the civil war he was captain of company I, first regiment New York engineers; and was promoted to major; he served in South Carolina, Georgia, Florida and Virginia, and was present with the cavalry when the flag of truce came in preparatory to the surrender at Appomattox. For four sessions he was a member of the Virginia house of delegates; a member of the state senate for four sessions, and his legislative record is a part of the archives of Virginia. He is now a prominent business man of Manchester, Va., where he takes an active part in the political affairs of his state.
Walker, Joseph Burbeen
agriculturist, author, was born in 1822 in New Hampshire. He is an agriculturist of New Hampshire, and the author of Land Drainage; Forests of New Hampshire; Prospective Agriculture in New Hampshire; Oats; Rogers the Ranger; and Birth of the Federal Constitution.
Walker, Joseph Henry
manufacturer, state legislator, congressman, author, was born Dec. 21, 1829, in Boston, Mass. He was elected a trustee of the People's Savings bank of Worcester, Mass., in 1866. He was several years a member and was elected president of the common council of Worcester, and was president of the Worcester board of trade for several years. He was three times elected to the Massachusetts legislature.
He has been for a quarter of a century president of the board of trustees of Worcester academy, an important college preparatory and scientific school for boys. He was elected to the fifty-first, fifty-second, fifty-third, fifty-fourth and fifty-fifth congresses as a republican. He is the author of A Few Facts and Suggestions on Money, Trade and Banking.
Walker, Joseph Marshall
governor, was born in New Orleans, La. He served in the state legislature of Louisiana, both as representative and senator, and in 1846 was state treasurer. In 1850 he was inaugurated governor of Louisiana, and died Jan. 26, 1856.
Walker, Joseph Reddeford
traveler, was born Oct. 13, 1798, in Knoxville, Tenn. He was guide to Bonnevill's expedition to the Rocky Mountains in 1832, and conducted the party from Great Salt Lake to California, which discovered the beautiful Yosemite valley. Walker's river, lake and pass, discovered by this expedition, were named for him. He died Oct. 27, 1876, in Ignacio Valley, Cal.
Walker, Justin Elisha
poet, was born Sept. 12, 1825, in Fairfax, Vt. His. poems have received publication from time to time in the periodical press, many of which are on temperance subjects.
Walker, Mrs. Katherine Kent
(CHILD), author, was born about 1840 in Pittsford, Vt. She is a writer who is best known by a famous paper in the Atlantic Monthly on The Total Depravity of Inanimate Things. She is the author of Bible Stories for the Young; Life of Christ; and From the Crib to the Cross.
Walker, Leroy Pope
soldier, lawyer, jurist, state legislator, was born July 8, 1817, near Huntsville, Ala. He was speaker of the Alabama house of representatives in 1847-50, and served as judge of the state circuit court in 1850-53. He was commissioned brigadier-general in the confederate army, but resigned in 1862. He died Aug. 22, 1884, in Huntsville, Ala.