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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.