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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.

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