Walker, Lewis C – Wall, Oscar Garrett
Walker, Lewis C
lawyer, jurist, legislator, was born Dec. 4, 1837, in Wilmington, Ohio. He served two terms as a member of the Indiana general assembly, and for twelve years was judge of the superior court, Indianapolis, Ind.
Walker, Mrs. Mary Spring
author. She is the author of The Family Doctor, or Mrs. Barry and Her Bourbon; Rev. Dr. Willoughby and His Wine; Both Sides of the Street; Down in a Saloon; and White Robes.
Walker, Percy
soldier, lawyer, jurist, state legislator, congressman, was born near Huntsville, Ala. He served as an officer in a volunteer company during the Creek war. He was elected by the legislature to the office of state's attorney for the sixth judicial circuit, which he held four years. In 1839, 1847 and 1853 he represented Mobile county in the general assembly, and in 1855 was elected a representative from Alabama to the thirty-fourth congress.
Walker, Robert H
merchant, lawyer, legislator, was born April 18, 1849, in Dadeville, Ala. During 1871-83 he was a successful merchant of Columbia, Ala., and since 1884 has attained eminence as a lawyer, having the largest and most varied practice in the state. From 1880 to 1886 he was captain of the Columbia Blues, state troops, of which he was the organizer. He afterward served as mayor of Columbia for two years; and for four years served with distinction in the Alabama state senate.
Walker, Robert J. C
merchant, lawyer, journalist, congressman, was born Oct. 20, 1838, in Chester county, Pa. He was twice elected a member of the Philadelphia city council, and was, for some time, editor and proprietor of the Saturday Evening Post newspaper. In 1878 he moved to Williamsport, Pa., and engaged in the lumber and coal business. He was elected a representative from Pennsylvania to the forty-seventh congress.
Walker, Robert James
lawyer, governor, United States senator, author, was born July 23, 1801, in Northumberland, Pa. In 1836 he was chosen a senator in congress from Mississippi, serving until 1845. In 1845 he was called upon to take charge of the treasury department, which he administered for four years. He was appointed, in 1857, governor of the territory of Kansas, which office he resigned. In 1863 he went to Europe and negotiated bonds of the government to the amount of two hundred and fifty millions of dollars. He was the author of Letters on the Finances and Resources of the United States. He died Nov. 11, 1869, in Washington, D. C.
Walker, Thomas Barlow
manufacturer, philanthropist, was born Feb. 1, 1840, in Xenia, Ohio. He is managing partner of the firm of Walker and Akeley of Minneapolis, president of the Red River Lumber company, with mills at Crookston, Minn., and Grand Forks, N.
D., and at the head of the St. Louis Park syndicate, which is building a suburban city on the boundary of Minneapolis. With B. F. Nelson and his son, Gilbert Walker, he is an owner of the Hennepin Paper company, and is engaged in many other enterprises, devoted to building up Minneapolis. Through his instrumentality and many years of work, the old Athenæum Library association was developed into the Public library, which stands now third or fourth in circulation among those of the cities in this country.
Walker, Timothy
lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born June 26, 1737, in Concord, N. H. He was a member of the fourth and fifth New Hampshire provincial congresses and of the first house of representatives in 1776 under the state constitution. Upon the reorganization of the state courts in 1777 he was made a justice of the court of common pleas for Rockingham county, which office he held for twenty-three years. He died May 5, 1822, in Concord, N. H.
Walker, Timothy
lawyer, jurist, author, was born Dec. 1, 1806, in Wilmington, Mass. He was a jurist of Cincinnati, and the author of Elements of Geometry; and Introduction to American Law. He died Jan. 15, 1856, in Cincinnati, Ohio.
Walker, William
adventurer, author, was born May 8, 1824, in Nashville, Tenn. He was a famous adventurer who led a filibustering expedition into Nicaragua in 1855, and was afterward court-martialed and shot by the authorities of Honduras. He was the author of The War in Nicaragua. He died Sept. 12, 1860, in Honduras.
Walker, William A
congressman, was born in New Hampshire. He was a representative in congress from New York from 1853 to 1855. He died Dec. 18, 1861, in New York.
Walker, William David
bishop of western New York, was born June 29, 1839, in New York city. As bishop of North Dakota he distinguished himself by his attachment to the Red Indians, among whom he instituted a remarkably successful evangelizing work. He invented the device of the cathedral car, a railway carriage fitted up for public worship, by means of which he reached many scattered hamlets which would otherwise have remained without pastoral care.
Walker, William H. T
soldier, was born in 1816 in Georgia. He was brevetted major in the United States army for gallant conduct at Contreras and Churubusco, and lieutenant-colonel for Molino del Rey. He died July 26, 1864, near Decatur, Ga.
Walker, William Johnson
benefactor, was born March 15, 1790, in Charlestown, Mass. Late in life he came into possession of a large fortune, of which he gave to benevolent objects about $400,000 during his lifetime, and by his will left nearly $1,000,000 to institutions of learning. He died April 2, 1865, in Newport, R. I.
Walker, William Mccreary
naval officer, author, was born Sept. 2, 1813, in Baltimore, Md. He was a United States naval officer who published a work on Screw Propulsion. He died Nov. 19, 1866, in New York city.
Walker, William S
naval officer, was born Dec. 6, 1793, in New Hampshire.
He entered the navy as a midshipman in 1814, was promoted to lieutenant in 1825, and to master-commandant in 1841.
He was placed on the retired list, and promoted to commodore in 1862. He died Nov. 24, 1863, in Boston, Mass.
Walker, Williston
educator, člergyman, author, was born in 1860 in Maine. He is a congregational clergyman, and professor of Germanic and western church history in Hartford Theological seminary from 1889. He is the author of The Creeds and Platforms of Congregationalism; On the Increase of Royal Power under Philip Augustus; and a History of the Congregational Church in the United States.
Walkup, Liberty
inventor, artist, was born July 14, 1844, in Pine Creek, Ill.
He served as a union soldier during the civil war. He is a successful inventor of art tools, and president of the Air Brush Manufacturing company of Rockford, Ill.
He is also an instructor in the fine arts.
Wall, Annie Carpenter
author, was born Sept. 19, 1859, in Richland county, Wis. She is the author of a book of poems entitled Some Scattered Leaves.
Wall, Garret Dorset
soldier, lawyer, jurist, United States senator, was born March 10, 1783, in Middletown, N. J. a He commanded volunteer company at the defense of Sandy Hook in the war of 1812, and was quartermaster - general of the state from 1815 to 1837. In 1827 he was elected to the general assembly. In 1829 he was appointed United States district attorney for New Jersey. He was a member of the United States senate from 1835 to 1841. In 1848 he was appointed judge of the court of errors and appeals, which office he occupied until his death. He died Nov. 22, 1850, in Burlington, N. J.
Wall, Garrett S
lawyer, soldier, legislator, was born July 12, 1845, in Bourbon county, Ky. He served in the confederate army and was promoted to captain. He has been county attorney, county judge and state senator from Maysville, Ky.
Wall, Hampton W
legislator, was born Nov. 10, 1832, in Staunton, Ill. This successful farmer and banker was justice of the peace of his native town for twenty years. He served two terms in the Illinois general assembly, and was a member of the state senate for four years.
Wall, James Walter
lawyer, United States senator, author, was born May 26, 1820, in Trenton, N. J. In 1847 he settled in Burlington, N. J., and devoted some attention to literary pursuits. In 1850 he was elected mayor of Burlington, and in 1854 visited Europe, and published a volume entitled Foreign Etchings, or, Visits to the Old World's Pleasant Places. During the early part of the war of the rebellion he wrote against the administration in power, for interfering with the freedom of the press. In 1863, he was elected a senator in congress from New Jersey to fill a vacancy. He died June 9, 1872, in Elizabeth, N. J.
Wall, Joseph Baisden
lawyer, legislator, jurist, was born Jan. 23, 1847, in Hernando county, Fla. He received the rudiments of his education in the common schools, and subsequently attended the university of Virginia. He soon attained eminence as a brilliant lawyer of Tampa, Fla.; was state's attorney of the sixth circuit of Florida; and the first president of the State Bar association. In 1889 he served with distinction in the Florida state senate; was president of that body, and is now judge of the criminal court.
Wall, Oscar Garrett
journalist, banker, poet. He served as a soldier in the union army. He subsequently was engaged in banking, and is the author of a volume of poems entitled Sunny Nooks.
HERRINGSHAW'S ENCYCLOPEDIA OF AMERICAN RIOGRAPHY.