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Rh did not properly represent their attitude on the Wilmot proviso.' He was not returned in the next election, retired from politics, and resumed the practice of law.

WALKER, James, president of Harvard, b. in Burlington, Mass., 16 Aug., 1794; d. in Cambridge, Mass., 23 Dec., 1874. He was graduated at Harvard in 1814, studied theology at Cambridge, and was pastor of the Unitarian church in Charlestown for twenty-one years. During this period he was active in his parochial duties and in advocating the cause of school and college education, lectured extensively and with success, and was a close student of literature and philosophy. In 1831-'9 he was an editor of the &ldquo;Christian Examiner.&rdquo; He resigned his pastorate in July, 1839, the following September became professor of moral and intellectual philosophy in Harvard, was elected its president in 1853, and held office till his resignation in 1860. He devoted the remainder of his life to scholarly pursuits, and left his valuable library and $15,000 to Harvard. That college gave him the degree of D. D. in 1835, and Yale that of LL. D. in 1860. He published numerous sermons, addresses, and lectures, including three series of lectures on &ldquo;Natural Religion,&rdquo; and a course of Lowell institute lectures on &ldquo;The Philosophy of Religion&rdquo;; &ldquo;Sermons preached in the Chapel of Harvard College&rdquo; (Boston, 1861); a &ldquo;Memorial of Daniel Appleton White&rdquo; (1863); and a &ldquo;Memoir of Josiah Quincy&rdquo; (1867). After his death a volume of his &ldquo;Discourses&rdquo; appeared (1876). He also edited, as college text-books, Dugald Stewart's &ldquo;Philosophy of the Active and Moral Powers&rdquo; (1849), and Dr. Thomas Reid's &ldquo;Essays on the Intellectual Powers, Abridged, with Notes and Illustrations from Sir William Hamilton and Others&rdquo; (1850). See &ldquo;Memorial&rdquo; (Cambridge, 1875), and &ldquo;Services at the Dedication of a Mural Monument to James Walker in the Harvard Church in Charlestown&rdquo; (1884).

WALKER, James Barr, clergyman, b. in Philadelphia, Pa., 29 July, 1805 ; d. in Wheaton, 111., 6 March, 1887. His father died when the son was a child, and he and his widowed mother re- sided near Pittsburg, where James worked in a factory, was errand-boy in a country store, and then labored four years in a printing-office. At the age of twenty he walked to New York, where he became clerk in the office of Mordecai M. Noah, and he was afterward a teacher in New Durham, N. J. He then studied law in Ravenna, Ohio, was graduated at Western Reserve college in 1831, and then edited successively the " Ohio Observer " at Hudson, the " Watchman of the Valley " at Cin- cinnati, and the " Watchman of the Prairies " at Chicago (now the " Advance ") — all religious news- papers. He also engaged in the publication and sale of books, but abandoned it for the ministry, and in 1841 was licensed to preach by the presby- tery of Chicago. He then resided in Mansfield, Ohio, where he established a private asylum for orphans, and he was for some time acting pastor of a church in Sandusky. He was lecturer on the harmony between science and revealed religion at Oberlin college and Chicago theological seminary. Western Reserve college gave him the degree of D. D. Dr. Walker was the author of " The Phi- losophy of the Plan of Salvation," published anony- mously under the editorship of Prof. Calvin E. Stowe (Boston, 1855), which went through several editions in England, and has been translated into five foreign languages, including Hindustanee ; "God revealed in Nature and in Christ," in op- position to theories of development (1855) ; " Phi- losophy of Scepticism and Ultraism " (1857) ; " Phi- losophy of the Divine Operation in the Redemption of Man " (London, 1862) ; " Poems " (1862) ; " Living Questions of the Age " (Chicago, 1869) ; and " Doc- trine of the Holy Spirit" (1870).

WALKER, James Bradford Richmond, clergyman, b. in Taunton, Mass., 15 April, 1821. He was graduated at Brown in 1841, and at Andover theological seminary in 1846, was ordained the next year, and in 1847-'53 served as pastor of a Congregational church in Bucksport, Me. He oc- cupied a charge in Holyoke, Mass., in 1855-64, in Hartford in 1864-'7, and subsequently has devoted himself to literary pursuits there, and in Boston, where he now resides. He has published " Memo- rial of the Walkers of the Old Plymouth Colony " (Northampton, Mass., 1861) ; and " The Genealogy of John Richmond " (1866).

WALKER, James Baniel, senator, b. in Lo- gan county, Ky., 13 Dec, 1830. He removed to Arkansas in 1847, was educated in private schools and at Ozark institute, Ark., studied law, and was admitted to practice in Fayetteville, Ark., in 1850. During the civil war he served as colonel of an Arkansas regiment in the Confederate army. After the war he resumed the practice of his profession, was solicitor-general of the state of Arkansas, a presidential elector in 1876 on the Tilden and Hen- dricks ticket, and in 1878 was chosen to the U. S. senate as a Democrat, serving till 3 March, 1885.

WALKER, James Murdock, lawyer, b. in Charleston, S. C, 10 Jan., 1813 ; d. there, 18 Sept., 1854. He was graduated at the College of South Carolina in 1830, studied law under Mitchell King, and in 1834 was admitted to the bar, where he at- tained high reputation. He served several terms in the legislature, and was active in benevolent and educational enterprises. Mr. Walker published "The State vs. The Bank of South Carolina" (Charleston, 1836) ; " An Inquiry concerning the Use and Authority of Roman Jurisprudence in the Law concerning Real Estate" (1850); "The Theory of Common Law " (1852) ; and a " Tract on Government " (1853).

WALKER, James Perkins, publisher, b. in Portsmouth, N. H., in 1829 ; d. in Boston, Mass., 10 May, 1868. He engaged in literary pursuits at an early age, becoming a contributor to the religious press, and editing the "Oriental Annual" in New York in 1857, the "Religious Educator" in 1860-'l, " The Altar at Home," and subsequently was a member of the publishing-house of Walker, Wise, and Co. in Boston, Mass. He published "Faith and Patience," a story for boys (Boston, 1860); "Book of Raphael's Madonnas" (1860); and " Sunny-Eyed Tim " (1861). See a " Memoir " of him, with selections from his writings (1869).

WALKER, Jesse, missionary, b. in North Carolina about 1760; d. in Cook county, 111., 5 Oct., 1835. He emigrated to Tennessee about 1800, became a travelling preacher in the western conference of the Methodist Episcopal church in 1802, and served in Tennessee and Kentucky till 1806, when he was appointed a missionary to Illinois. He engaged in revival work in that state with great success, erected churches, and established congregations. He was then appointed to Missouri, where his lessons of temperance and industry exercised a beneficial influence on the pioneer community. He became presiding elder of the Illinois district in 1812, conference missionary in 1819, and in 1820 built the first Methodist Episcopal church and formed the first Methodist Episcopal congregation in St. Louis, Mo. At that time there were only three persons of that denomination in the town.