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326 sonal and Biographical Sketches of the Early Set- tlers " (2 vols., Cincinnati, 1869) ; " Life of Oliver P. Morton " (Indianapolis, 1877) ; " Life of Alvin P. Hovey " (1888).

WALKER, Cornelius, clergyman, b. near Rich- mond, Va., 12 June, 1819. His education and training were obtained at the Episcopal high-school at Richmond. He was ordained deacon in St. Paul's church, Alexandria, 12 July, 1845, by Bishop Meade, and priest in Grace church, Lexington, 23 Sept., 1846, by the same prelate. He was minister in Amherst county, Va., in 1845-'7, assistant min- ister in St. Paul's church. Richmond, in 1847-8, rector of Christ church, Winchester, in 1848-'60, of Christ church, Alexandria, in 1860-'l, and of Emmanuel church, Henrico, in 1862-'6. He was appointed professor of church history in the Theo- logical seminary of Virginia in 1866, and served for ten years, when he was made professor of sys- tematic divinity and homiletics. The degree of D. D. was given him by William and Mary college in 1859. Ur. Walker has been a frequent contribu- tor to reviews and magazines, and has furnished articles on " Liturgies," " Evidences of Christian- ity," "Ecclesiastical History," and other similar subjects for religious cyclopaedias. He has pub- lished " Biography of Rev. William Duval, City Missionary " (Richmond, 1854); "Life and Corre- spondence of Rev. William Sparrow, D. D., Pro- fessor in the Theological Seminary, Va." (Philadel- phia, 1876) ; " Biography of the Rev. Charles W. Andrews, D. D." (1877) ; and " Sorrowing not with- out Hope " (New York, 1887).

WALKER, Freeman, senator, b. in Charles City county, Va., 25 Oct., 1780 ; d. in Richmond county, Ga., 23 Sept., 1827. He removed to Georgia in 1797, was admitted to the bar, and began prac- tice in 1802 in Augusta, soon becoming eminent in his profession. In 1807 he was a member of the legislature, and in 1819 he was elected United States senator from Georgia, but in 1821 he resigned. His speech on the Missouri compromise question at- tracted general attention.

WALKER, George, senator, b. in Culpepper county, Va., in 1768; d. in Nicholasville, Ky., in 1819. He was an early settler in Kentucky, where he held a leading place at the bar, and was a member of the legislature. He was appointed U. S. senator from Kentucky in place of George M. Bibb, re- signed, serving from 10 Oct., 1814, till 2 Feb., 1815.

WALKER, George, diplomatist, b. in Peter- borough, N. H., in 1824 ; d. in Washington, D. C, 15 Jan., 1888. He was educated at Yale and at Dartmouth, where he was graduated in 1842, and studied law at Harvard, where he received his de- Eree in 1845. He was admitted to the bar at pringfield, Mass., practising law there from 1847 till 1875, was elected to the Massachusetts senate in 1857, was re-elected, and in 1868 was a member of the lower house. He was instrumental in intro- ducing the national system of banking into the state, engaged in business in Springfield, Mass., and became president of the Third national bank of that city. In 1865 he was sent to Europe on a confidential mission by Sec. Hugh McCulloch, and wrote an article on the public debt and re- sources of the United States, which was published in the "Revue des deux mondes" and republished in German papers. In 1869 he visited Europe on business connected with the state of Massachu- setts, and on his return settled in New York city, engaged in banking, and was elected vice-president of the Gold and stock telegraph company. In 1879 he was sent to Europe on a confidential mission by Sec. William M. Evarts, visited Eng- land, France, and Germany, and made investiga- tions with special reference to the question of a bimetallic monetary standard. He was consul- general in Paris from 1880 till 1887, when he re- signed, returned to this country, and resided in Washington, D. C, till his death.

WALKER, Gilbert Carlton, congressman, b. in Binghamton, N. Y., 1 Aug., 1832; d. in New York city, 11 May, 1885. He was graduated at Hamilton college in 1854, admitted to the bar in 1855, and settled in Oswego, N. Y. He re- moved to Chicago, 111., in 1859, and engaged in politics while practising his profession. In 1864 he settled in Norfolk, Va., where he became presi- dent of the Exchange national bank, and in July, 1869, he was elected governor of Virginia by a majority of 18,000 over Henry H. Wells, who was at that time military governor of the state. At the expiration of his service he was chosen to congress as a Conservative, serving from 1875 till 1879. He resumed his profession in 1879, and removed to New York city.

WALKER, Henderson, governor of North Carolina, b. in North Carolina in 1660: d. near Edenton, N. C, 14 April, 1704. He adopted the profession of law, and became a judge of the su- preme court and president of the council, introduc- ing many judicial reforms. From 1699 until his death he was governor of North Carolina, assum- ing that post by virtue of his office as president of the council, and not under any appointment as deputy by the governor-general at Charleston. George Bancroft says of his rule, " While Eng- land was engaged in world-wide wars, here the in- habitants multiplied and spread in the enjoyment of peace and liberty." The stone that marks Walker's grave also records that " North Carolina, during his administration, enjoved tranquillitv."

WALKER, Sir Hovenden, British officer, b. in Somersetshire, England, about 1660 ; d. in Dublin, Ireland, in January, 1726. He entered the navy in his youth, became a captain in 1692, and rear- admiral of the white in 1710, and in 1711 was knighted by Queen Anne. In the last-named year he commanded the fleet that sailed from Boston on 30 July, for the conquest of Canada. Delays, a badly organized method of supplies, and the in- competency of its leaders made the expedition a failure. Half of Walker's ships were wrecked in a storm on Isle aux OSufs, on St. Lawrence river, and Walker returned to England, where he charged that his troubles had been due to want of proper co-operation on the part of the New-Englanders. These charges were answered by Jeremiah Dura- mer in a " Letter to a Noble Lord concerning the Late Expedition to Canada" (London, 1712). In 1715 Walker's ship, the "Edgar," of seventy-four guns, blew up at Spithead, and nearly all the crew perished. He was blamed for negligence in the matter, and, his Canadian experience being still fresh in the public mind, he was dismissed the service. He then settled on a plantation in South Carolina. Admiral Walker published in his vindi- cation " A Journal or Full Account of the Late Expedition to Canada " (London, 1720).

WALKER, Isaac P. senator, b. in Virginia in 1813; d. in Milwaukee, Wis., 1 April, 1872. He adopted the profession of law, removed to Wisconsin in 1841, practised in Milwaukee, and took an active part in early political events in the state. He served in the territorial congress in 1847-'8, and in the latter year was chosen to the U. S. senate as an Anti-slavery Democrat. His policy in that body was deemed timid by his constituents, for, although he wished to preserve the Union, he