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district. Mr. Walker subsequently removed to Mississippi. He wrote an autobiograplij-, up to about 1800, published by his grandson. He died in Clinton, Miss., about 1828-30.

WALKER, Francis Amasa, educator, was born in Boston, Mass., July 2, 1840; son of Amasa (q.v.) and Hannah (Ambrose) Walker. He attended the common schools in North Brook- field, Mass.; was graduated from Amherst col- lege, A.B., 1860, A.M., 1863; began the study of law in Worcester, Mass., but abandoned it on be- ing commissioned sergeant-major, 15th Massachusetts infan- try, Aug. 1, 1861. He was promoted assistant adjutant- general, with the rank of captain, Sept. 14,1861, in Gen. D.N. Couch's first division, 4th army corps; ad- jutant-general, with the rank of major, Aug. 11, 1862, and lieu- tenant-colonel on the staff of 2d army corps, Dec. 23, 1862, serving on the staffs of .Gen- erals Couch, Warren and Hancock. He was severely wounded by a sliell at Chancellorsville, May 1, 1863; captured at Reams's station, Aug. 25, 1864, and confined for a short time in Libby prison. He was brevetted colonel and brigadier- general, U.S. V., for " gallantry and good conduct,' and mustered out of service, Jan. 12, 1865, on account of disability resulting from his imprison- ment. He was married in 1865, to a Miss Stoughton of Turner's Falls, Mass. He taugiit Latin and Greek in Williston seminary, East- hampton, Mass., 1865-67; was assistant editor and chief editorial writer on the Springfield (Mass.) Republican, 1868-69; ciiief of t!ie bureau of statistics in the U.S. treasury department, and deputy special commissioner of the revenue, Washington, D.C., 1869-70; appointed supervisor of the nintli and tenth censuses in 1870 and 1879, and was U.S. commissioner of Indian affairs, 1872, and commissioner to the international monetary conference at Paris, 1878. He held the chair of political economy and history in the Sheffield Scientific school of Yale from its founda- tion in 1872 to 1880, and in 1881 became president of the Massachusetts Institute of Teclinology, remaining in office until his death. In addition to his administrative duties he also delivered courses of lectures at Johns Hopkins university, 1877-78, publishing the first course under the title of Money (1878); twelve lectures at the X. — 19

Lowell Institute, Boston, Mass., 1879, published in England as Money, Trade and Industry; two courses at Harvard, 1882 and 1883, appearing in book form as Land and its Rent, and a third course at Harvard, 1896. He was a trustee of Amherst college, 1879-89; and received the honorary degrees, Ph.D., 1875, and LL.D., 1881, from Amherst; A.M., 1873, and LL.D., 1881. from Yale, Ph.D., University of Halle, 1894; LL.D., Harvard, 1883; Columbia, 1887; St. Andrews, Scotland, 1880; University of Dublin, 1892, and from Edinburgh, 1896. Dr. Walker was actively interested in the progress of common-school education and in the introduction of mechanical training as an element of its curriculum, and served as a member of the New Haven (Conn.) and Boston school committees and of the Con- necticut and Massachusetts state boards of educa- tion. He was chief of the bureau of awards at the Centennial exposition, Pliiladelphia, Pa., 1876; a member of the National Academy of Sciences, 1878-97, and vice-president, 1890; president of the American Statistical association, 1882-97; cliairman of the Massachusetts topo- graphical survey commission, 1884-90; president of the American Economic society, 1885-92; a member of the Park and Art commissions of Boston, 1890-96 and 1890-97, respectively; trustee of the Boston Public library, 1896; a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences; president of the Military Historical Society of Massachusetts and a member of the Massachu- setts Historical society; honorary member of the Royal Statistical society of London; correspondent of the French Institute; corresponding member of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, and associated with various other learned organizations. Aside from his statistical and historical publications. Dr. Walker was an extensive writer on political economy, his works effecting great influence upon economic tiionglit in Europe and America. The titles of his com- pilations include: Commerce and Navigation of the United States (2 vols., 1868-69); Statistical Atlas of the United States (1874), which was awarded a medal of the first class by the Inter- national Geographical congress at Paris; Judge's Reports on Aivards (8 vols., 1878). He is the author of: The Indian Question (1874); The Wages Question (1876); Political Economy (18^3: briefer ed., 1884; new ed., 1887); History of the Second Army Corps (1886); the articles: General Hancock and the Artillery at Gettysburg, an 1 Meade at Gettysburg, in " Battles and Leaders of the Civil War " (Vol. III., 1888); General Hancock in " Great Commanders Series " (1894), and numerous articles and addresses on economic, educational and military subjects. For his com- plete bibliography see " Quarterly Publications of