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Walker, Joseph Reddeford – Walker, William David
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, 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.
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 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, 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.