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 WALKER WALKER. 623 the first company legally enlisted in the state of Maine. He was elected captain, received his commission June 25th of that year, obtained that of major, November 30, same year, and that of colonel, March 17, 1862, and served as colonel until mus- tered out at the expiration of his term of service, July 19, 1S64. Colonel Walker and the regiment he commanded were many times selected by Generals Hancock, Sickles, and Kearney for delicate and dangerous services. He was always in the entire confidence of his superior officers, and many times assigned to the command of brigades. He was in all the battles of the army of the Poto- mac, from Bull Run to the time of his retirement from service, except the battle of Antietam ; in the latter his division was not engaged. He had three horses shot under him in different actions, was wounded three times, once seriously at Gettysburg, where his regiment held a very important position. His last wound laid him off duty ninety-six days, the only time lost during his term of service, and he returned to his command, able to walk only with the help of a cane. Since the war he has been engaged in the business of carpenter and builder, save one year spent in the oil-fields of Pennsyl- vania. His residence is Somerville, where he has been in business nineteen years. Mr. Walker was president of the first com- mon council of the city of Rockland, Maine, m 1854, and was re-elected. He was com- mon councilman of Somerville in 1877. Mr. Walker was married, November 3, 1844, in East Thomaston (now Rockland), Maine, to Susan E. Brown. From this union there were seven children : William H., Narcissa R., Irason B., Winfield S., John F, Annie B , and Elijah C. Walker. WALKER, Francis Amasa, son of Amasa and Hannah (Ambrose) Walker, was born in Boston, July 2, 1840. He entered Amherst College in 1855, graduating in i860. While studying law in the office of l)ev- ens & Hoar, in 1861, he joined the army, where he held the positions of sergeant- major, 15th Massachusetts infantry; cap- tain and assistant adjutant-general ; major and assistant adjutant-general ; lieutenant- colonel and assistant adjutant-general ; brevet colonel and brevet brigadier-general of volunteers, 1S61-65. From 1865 to '68 General Walker was a teacher at the Williston Seminary, East- hampton ; on the editorial staff of the " Springfield Republican," in 1868 and '69 ; deputy special commissioner of United States revenue, 1S69 and '70 ; superin- tendent of the United States census of 1870 and that of 1880; commissioner of Indian affairs, iS7i-'72. General Walker was married August 16, 1865, to Exene, daughter of Timothy M. and Maria (Richardson) Stoughton, of Greenfield. He was professor of political economy and history in the Sheffield scientific school of Yale College from 1873 to '81 ; lecturer in Johns Hopkins University in 1877 and '78 ; university lecturer in political econ- omy, Harvard College, in 1883 and '84 ; and has had the degree of LL. D. con- ferred upon him by Amherst and Colum- bia colleges, and the universities of Yale, Harvard, and St. Andrew's. General Walker has been president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1 lust (in, since 1881 ; president of the American Statistical Association since 1882, and president of the American Eco- nomic Association since 1886. He was chief of the bureau of awards at the Cen- tennial Exhibition, in Philadelphia, in 1876, and commissioner from the United States to the International Monetary Conference, Paris, 1S78. Among the publications of General Walker may be mentioned : "The Indian Question ; " " Statistical Atlas of the United States ; " " The Wages Question ; " " Mon- ey ; " " Money, Trade and [ndustry ;"" Po- litical Economy;" " Land and Its Rent," besides numerous addresses and articles in magazines. He compiled various reports of the bureau of statistics, and directed the publication of the United States census,
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WALKER, George Willis, son of John and Abigail Cox (Walker) Walker, was born in Exeter, Penobscot county, Maine, August 27, 1827 He was educated in the local schools. When twenty years of age he went to Boston, and was employed in various business houses. In the spring of 1853 he made an engagement with Johnson, Cox & Fuller, of Troy, N. Y., extensive manufacturers of stoves. With this firm and its successors he remained five years, acquiring a thorough knowledge of the business. He then returned to Boston and established himself in this line on his own account, doing a successful business. Six years afterward, Horace E. Walker was admitted to partnership, under the firm name of George W. Walker & Co. In 1S74 the firm of Walker, Pratt & Co.