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married, Dec. 1, 1847, to Margaret Jane, daughter of James and Elizabeth Fislier of Richmond, Va. He was assistant at St. Paul's. Richmond. 1847- 48; rector of Ciirist Church, Winchester, Va., 1848-60; of Christ church, Alexandria. 1S60-61, and of Emmanuel church, Richmond, 1862-66. He was professor of church history in the Vir- ginia Theological seminary, 18G6-76 ; professor of systematic divinity and homiletics, 1876-98, and dean of ti)e faculty, 1895-98, retiring in 1898. The honorary degree of D.D. was conferred on him by the College of W^illiam and jMary in 1859. He is the auther of : Biography of Rev. William Diival. City Missionary of Richmond (1854); Life and Correspondence of Rev. William Sjmrrow (1876); Biography of Rev. Charles W. Andrews (1877) ; Sorroicing, not without Hope (1887) ; Outlines of Tlieology (1893): Lectures onChristian Ethics (1896); a history of the Virginia Theologi- cal seminary, in preparation, 1903, and many ar- ticles on ecclesiastii\al subjects.

WALKER, David, jurist, was born in Todd county, Ky., Feb. 19, 1806 ; son of Jacob W^the and Nancy (Hawkins) AValker ; grandson of George Walker, who came from England to America and settled in Brunswick count}', Va., prior to the Revolutionary war, and was married to a lady of cavalier lineage soon after his ar- rival. Their son, Jacob Wythe, removed to Ken- tucky, where he became a lawyer with a large clientry but meagre fees, and to Arkansas in 1836, where he was president of the Fayetteville branch of the state bank at the time of his death. David Walker was trained for the bar by his father, was admitted in 1829 at Scottsville, and came to Little Rock, Ark., Oct. 10, 1830, locating in practice at Fayetteville. He was prosecuting attorney for the third circuit, 1833-35 ; a member of the constitutional convention of 1836 ; state senator, 1840-44 ; was defeated for representative in congress in 1844, by Archibald Yell; and was elected associate justice of the supreme court of the .state in 1848. He was a delegate to the convention of 1S61, and was the candidate of the conservative W^higs for president of the conven- tion, receiving 40 votes against 35 for the disun- ion candidate, but the rapid change in sentiment in the convention by May 6, led the entire bodj-, with Judge Walker at the head, to declare for se- cession. In iy06 he was elected chief- justice of the state, and in 1868 was driven from office by the military power of the United States. He was again elected, when the reconstruction of the state was secure, and served till September. 1878, when he resigned. He died in Fayetteville. Ark., Sept. 30. 1S70.

WALKER, David S., governor of Flori.la. was \k)TI\ in Logan county. Ky., in 1815. He removed to Florida about 1810 ; was the first state senator

from Leon and Wakulla counties upon the ad- mission of the state in 1845 ; was a leader of the W^liig party, and defeated as a candidate before the legislature for U.S. senator. In 1865 he was elected governor of the .state on the Republican ticket, holding office, 1866-68. He was judge of the 2d judicial circuit court at the time of his death in Tallahassee, Fla., July 20, 1891.

WALKER, Faye, educator, was born in jMur- dock, Ohio. July 22, 1848 : son of Andrew Jack- son and Leah (Phillips) Walker ; grandson of Samuel and Hannah W^alker, and of Isaac and Ruanza Phillips, and a descendant of the Rev. George W^alker, the defender of Derry. He was graduated from Miami university, Ohio, A.B., 1868, A.M., 1871 ; studied at the Danville and Mc- Cormick theological seminaries, being graduated from the latter in 1870, and was ordained to the Presbj'terian ministrj' in May, 1870. He was married, June 22. 1871, to Lydia, daugliter of the Rev. R. D. and Elizabeth B. Morris of Oxford, Ohio. He was a pastor at Dwight and Taylor- ville, 111., 1870-75; at Indianapolis, Ind., 1875-77, where he edited the Presbyterian Standard; at College Hill, Ohio, 1877-83, and at Collinsville. Ohio, 1884-1900. He was director of Danville Theological seminary, 1879-1900 ; president of Ox- ford college, Ohio, 1883-1900, and in the latter year became pastor of the Hebron Presbj'teiian church, Philadelphia, Pa. The honorary degree of D.D. was conferred upon him by Centre col- lege, Danville. Ky., in 1886.

WALKER, Felix, representative, was born in Hampshire county, Va., July 19, 1753 ; son of Col. John, and grandson of John W^alker, who came from Derry, Ireland, and located in Dela- ware, in 1720. Col. John W^alker (1728-96) took part in the French and Indian war ; subsequently went to Lincoln county, N.C., and then to Tryon (Rutherford) county, N.C., 1768, and was a mem- ber of the Hillsborough congress of August, 1775. Felix W^alker joined Col. Daniel Boone's pioneer party in Kentucky, and after a few months' visit at his old home he settled in the W^itauga dis- trict, and served four jears as the first clerk of the first court of Washington county, of which he was a founder, and after serving as a lieuten- ant in Colonel Huger's North Carolina rifle regi- ment and in warfare against the Cherokees. re- turned to Rutherford county and was appointed clerk of the county in October, 1789. He took part in the battle of King's Mountain ; was a representative in the North Carolina legislature. 1792-93. 1800-02 and 1806, and was a represent- ative from the western district of North Carolina in the 15th-17th congre.sses. 1811-23. He received an equal number of votes for re-election in 1822, with Robert B. Vance, his opponent, who was elected by the sheriffs of the four counties in the