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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.