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Walters, George

lawyer, legislator, was born Aug. 4, 1835, in Hamilton county, Tenn. In 1870 he was a member of the Tennessee constitutional convention, and in 1871-72 was representative in the state legislature. He is now one of the foremost lawyers of Texas at Waxahachie, where for six years he has served with distinction as district attorney.

WALTERS, WILLIAM THOMPSON, merchant, author, was born May 23, 1820, in Juniata River, Pa. He was a merchant of Baltimore, long prominent as an art patron, and the author of Antoine Louis Barye, from the French of Various Critics; The Percheron Horse, from the French of Du Hays; and Notes upon Certain Masters of the Nineteenth Century. He died in 1891.

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