USA > Pennsylvania > Who's who in Pennsylvania; containing authentic biographies of Pennsylvanians who are leaders and representatives in various departments of worthy human achievement. First Edition. V.1, Pt.2 > Part 61
Note: The text from this book was generated using artificial intelligence so there may be some errors. The full pages can be found on Archive.org (link on the Part 1 page).
Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 | Part 6 | Part 7 | Part 8 | Part 9 | Part 10 | Part 11 | Part 12 | Part 13 | Part 14 | Part 15 | Part 16 | Part 17 | Part 18 | Part 19 | Part 20 | Part 21 | Part 22 | Part 23 | Part 24 | Part 25 | Part 26 | Part 27 | Part 28 | Part 29 | Part 30 | Part 31 | Part 32 | Part 33 | Part 34 | Part 35 | Part 36 | Part 37 | Part 38 | Part 39 | Part 40 | Part 41 | Part 42 | Part 43 | Part 44 | Part 45 | Part 46 | Part 47 | Part 48 | Part 49 | Part 50 | Part 51 | Part 52 | Part 53 | Part 54 | Part 55 | Part 56 | Part 57 | Part 58 | Part 59 | Part 60 | Part 61 | Part 62 | Part 63 | Part 64 | Part 65 | Part 66 | Part 67 | Part 68 | Part 69 | Part 70 | Part 71 | Part 72 | Part 73
President of the First National Bank of Catawissa. Address, Catawissa, Colum- bia County, Pa.
VAUX, George, Jr .:
Lawyer, philanthropist; born in Phila- delphia, Dec. 18, 1863; son of George and Sarah Vaux; he was graduated from Haverford College, with the degree of S. B., 1884, LL. D., University of Pennsyl- vania, 1888; admitted to bar. He has de- voted much of his time to reformatory work in penal institutions, mainly in the Philadelphia House of Refuge, and in 1898 he was appointed Inspector of the State Penitentiary for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. Member of the Phi Beta Kappa, American Philosophical Society, American Association for the Advance- ment of Science, Academy of Natural Sci- ences of Philadelphia, etc. Contributor to Proceedings Academy Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. 1899, including original re- searches on glaciers of British Columbia. Address, 404 Girard Building, Philadel- phia, Pa.
VEDDER, Henry Clay:
Educator, editor, author; born at De Ruyter, N. Y., Feb. 26, 1853: was graduat- ed from the University of Rochester, 1873 (A. M., 1876; D. D., 1897); Rochester The- ological Seminary, 1876; married. Sept. 11, 1877, Minnie M. Lingham. He was on the editorial staff of the Examiner. a Bap- tist newspaper, published in New York, from 1876 to 1892, and its editor in chief, 1892-1801; he was also the editor of the Baptist Quarterly Review from IN 5 to 1892. Has been for some time Professor of Church History at the Crozer Theologi- cal Seminary. Anthor of "Baptists and Liberty of conscience." 1055: "The De- cline of Infant Baptism." 1\90; "A Short
History of the Baptists." 1991;
"The
Higher Criticism." 1×92: "The Dawn of Christianity," 1994; "Talks with Baptist Young People." 1995: "American Writers of To-day." 1891; "The Decline of the Apostolic Succession in the Church of England," 1894: "A History of the Bap- tists of the Middle States," 1998: "The Baptists" (vol. in The Story of the Church- es Series), 1903; also many articles in magazines, newspapers. encyclopedias. ete. Address, Chester, Pa.
VERBEEK, Gustave:
Painter, illustrator; born at Nagasaki, Japan, Aug. 29, 1867: son of Gindo Ver- beek; educated at Tokio, Japan, 1×75-1862;
758
WHO'S WHO IN PENNSYLVANIA.
studied art under Benjamin Constant, Laurens, Blanc, Girardot, Paris. Address, 1717 Chestnut St., Bryn Mawr, Pa.
VERLENDEN, W. L .:
President of the First National Bank. Address, Darby, Delaware County, Pa.
VERNER, James:
Railroad official; born Aug, 30. 1918, at a place which is now called Monongahela City, Pa .; son of James and Elizabeth (Doyle) Verner. In 1820 his parents moved to Pittsburg, and it was here that he was reared, educated and spent almost his entire life. In 1831 he married Miss Anna Montgomery, daughter of Gen. James Murray of Murraysville, Pa., where he purchased a farm of 400 acres, on which is now situated Verona (formerly Verner's Station, Allegheny Valley Rail- road). Upon the completion of the Alle- gheny Valley Railroad, he, with others, began the work of laying out a village, which now constitutes the First Ward of Verona Borough, and, by his efforts, se- cured for the place the shops of the rail- road. He later returned to Pittsburg, where he engaged in the brewing business, and afterward, in connection with Thomas A. Scott and Nathaniel Holmes, operated an omnibus line, transferring passengers and baggage to and from the different railroad stations. In 1859 he secured the charter for the Citizens' Pas- senger Street Railway, which was the first street railway in actual operation west of the Allegheny Mountains. He organized the Pittsburg Forge and Iron Company with Messrs. J. H. McCullough, George W. Cass, Springer Harbaugh and William P. Porter, who were the first Directors of the Company. Address, Pittsburg, Pa.
VERNER, Murray A .:
Railroad official; born in Pittsburg, Pa., in 1852; was first employed as clerk in the receiver's office of the Citizen's Pas- senger Railway. In 1876 he became Su- perintendent, and in 1890 General Manager of the Pittsburg and Birmingham Trac- tion Company; also General Manager of the Rochester, N. Y., street railway syn- dicate, and Manager and Vice President of the Buffalo street railway system. On the completion of the Pittsburg and Birmingham Traction Line he was elected President. He is identified with big finan- ciers in Cleveland and railway interests along the Ohio Valley. Address. Far- mers' Bank Building, Pittsburg, Pa.
VERNOU, Charles Alexander:
Major United States Army; born in and appointed from Pennsylvania; Sec- ond Lieutenant Third Pennsylvania Cav- alry, April 18, 1862; honorably mustered out, July S. 1862; Second Lieutenant Third Pennsylvania Cavalry, May 9, 1863; honorably mustered out, Aug. 24, 1864; First Lieutenant Sixth Pennsylvania Cav- alty, Feb. 19, 1865; Captain, March 22, 1865; honorably mustered out, Aug. 7, 1865; Second Lieutenant Fourth Cavalry, March 7, 1867; First Lieutenant, Jan. 13, 18es; transferred to Nineteenth Infantry, July 10, 1873; Captain, Dec. 18, 1886; Ma- jor Chief Quartermaster Volunteers, June 7, 189S; honorably discharged from Vol- unteers, Sept. 17, 1898; Major Seventeenth Infantry, March 2, 1899; retired, June 8, 1899. On duty with the organized Militia of Michigan since Feb. 6. 1901. Address, care Adjutant General, Lansing, Mich.
VICKERS, George M .:
Soldier, author and editor; born in Phil- adelphia, Jan. 8, 1841; son of David and Jane Emeline Vickers; educated by pri- vate tutors: served as private Company K, Second Regiment, Pennsylvania Re- serves; Sergeant, Company I, Fortieth Pennsylvania Regiment (emergency, to repel Lee's invasion of State), private Company D, First Regiment United States Veteran Reserves, and honorably dis- charged Nov. 14. 1865. President Penn- sylvania Reserve Association, Philadel- phia. Independent in politics. Author of "Guard the Flag," "Columbia. My Coun- try," and over 500 songs, many of which are published in foreign countries; also collection of poems entitled "Ballads of the Occident." Address, 712 Chestnut St., Philadelphia, Pa.
VILSACK, L .:
President of the Valley Trust Company of Pittsburg. Address, Pittsburg, Pa.
VINCENT. John P .:
Jurist; born in Waterford, Erie County. Pa .. Dec. 2. 1817: educated in the Water- ford Academy, and for some time was engaged in teaching and farming; then taking up law as a profession, he studiel in the office of Hon. Elijah Babbitt, Erie. Pa., was admitted to the Erie County bar in 1841, and soon became actively en- gaged in practice. In 1862 he was elected to the House of Representatives, where he received the support of the Republican members for Speaker in 1863. In 1866 he
759
WHO'S WHO IN PENNSYLVANIA.
was elected Additional Law Judge of the Sixth District of Pennsylvania. and after the adoption of the new Pennsylvania Constitution in 1874 was commissioned President Judge of this district, serving till January, 1877. Since that date he has practiced law in Erie. Address, Erie, Pa.
VIRDIN, John:
Ex-Recorder of Deeds; born in the Dis- trict of Kensington, Philadelphia, July 14, 1852; attended the public schools until nine years of age, when the death of his father compelled him to seek employment. After working on a farm and at other duties, he became a laborer in the Cramp shipyard at fifteen, and soon after an apprentice to the trade of spar making. At twenty-one he was given a position in the United States Navy Yard, through the favor of Congressman Harmer, in requital for which he organized the Harmer Re- publican Club in the Eighteenth Ward, of which he was President from 1874 to 1885. His first political position was as Inspector of Highways under Gen. Louis Wagner. In 1898 he was elected Recorder of Deeds of Philadelphia, a position which he filled ably and efficiently for three years. Address, 3139 Allen St., Philadelphia, Pa.
VON MOSCHZISKER, Robert:
Judge of Court of Common Pleas, Phil- adelphia; born in Philadelphia, March 4, 1870; son of the late Dr. F. A. von Mosch- zisker, a native of Poland, who came to America and married Miss Harrison of Philadelphia; educated in the public schools of Philadelphia and by private
tutors. Entered the office of Edward Shippen in 1883, with whom he subse- quently studied law, and was admitted to the bar. In 1902 he was appointed Third Assistant District Attorney of the County of Philadelphia; was advanced to Second Assistant District Attorney, and subsequently First Assistant. In 1903 he was appointed by the Governor to fill out the unexpired term of Judge Henry J. McCarthy in the Court of Common Pleas No. 3 of the County of Philadelphia, and on Jan. 4, 190! was elected Judge for the full term of ten years. He was previously a member of the Board of Censors of the Philadelphia bar. Member Young Repub- licans of Philadelphia, Penrose, Lincoln, Art. Philadelphia Yacht. and Clover
Clubs; American Bar Association; Penn- sylvania State Bar Association; Philadel- phia Law Association; Law Academy; Pennsylvania Historical Society; Veteran Corps of the First Regiment, National Guard of Pennsylvania; Harmony Lodge No. 52, F. and A. M .; Fidelity Assembly No. 21, A. O. M. P .; Washington Camp No. 277, P. O. S. A .; Artillery Corps of Washington Grays and Blaine Council, J. O. U. A. M. Address, City Hall, Phila- delphia, Pa.
VON WEDEKIND, Luther Lochman:
Surgeon United States Navy; born in Pennsylvania; appointed from New York; Assistant Surgeon, Nov. 3. 1888; Passed Assistant Surgeon, Nov. 3. 1892: Pensa- cola, 1889; Naval Hospital. Chelsea, 1992; Newark, 1893; Naval Academy, 1896; Minneapolis, 1898; Oregon, 1999; Puget Sound, Naval Station, 1900; Surgeon, Nov. 19, 1900: Cincinnati, since 1901. Address, care Navy Department, Washington, D. C.
VOORHEES, Theodore:
Civil engineer and railway manager; born in New York, June 4, 1847; son of B. F. and Margaret E. Voorhees; he re- ceived his education in private schools and at Columbia College; he also took a full course at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, from which he was graduated in 1869 with the degree of C. E. Married, at Syracuse, N. Y .. Feb. 4, 1894, Mary E. Chittenden. In railway service since July 15, 1569: four years engineering depart- ment. two years Superintendent Syracuse, Binghamton & New York Railroad and Lackawanna & Western Railroad; Decem- ber, 1874, to March, 1875, transportation department Delaware & Hudson Canal Company, Albany; March, 1875, to Oct. 20, 1885, Superintendent Saratoga & Cham- plain Division, Northern Railroad: depart- ment. Delaware & Hudson Canal Com- pany's Railroad; October, 1555, to March. ruary 1, 1893, General Superintendeant of March, 1890, to February. 1593, General Superintendent New Central & Hudson River Railroad; also March, 1890, to Feb- ruary 1. 1893. General Superintendent Rome, Watertown & Ogdensburg Rail- road. Since Feb. 1. 1893. First Vice Presi- dent Philadelphia & Reading Railroad. Member American Society Civil En- gineers: also Century, University and Philadelphia Clubs. Address. Terminal. Philadelphia, Pa. Reading
760
WHO'S WHO IN PENNSYLVANIA.
W
WADE, Charles Eugene:
Dental surgeon; born in Pittsburg, July 30, 1871; educated in the public schools of Pittsburg and graduated with honors from the High School. He then pursued a course of study in the Curry Institute and the Pennsylvania Dental College at Philadelphia; was graduated from the lat- ter institution in 1892, and later opened an office in Pittsburg. Member of the Odon- tographic Society and of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. Republican in politics. Address, 3600 Fifth Ave., Pitts- burg, Pa.
WADSWORTH, Marshman Edward:
Geologist, educator; born at Livermore Falls, Me., May 6, 1847; was graduated from Bowdoin, 1869; Ph. D., Harvard. Instructor, Harvard, 1874-18$5; Professor Mineralogy and Geology, Colby Univer- sity, 1885-1887; President Michigan Col- lege of Mines, 1887-1899; State Geologist of Michigan, 18SS-1893; geologist and mining expert, Keweenawan Association, 1898- 1903; Professor Mining and Geology, Pennsylvania State College, since 1901; Geologist, Pennsylvania State Board of Agriculture, since 1902. Fellow American Association for the Advancement of Sci- ence, Gelogical Society of London, Amer- ican Geological Society; member American Institute of Mining Engineering. Author of "Geology of the Iron and Copper Districts of Lake Superior," "Lithological Studies," "Report of the Michigan Geological Sur- Survey," "The Azoic System" (with the late Josiah Dwight Whitney ), and num- erous other books and papers. Address, State College, Pa.
WAGNER, E. C .:
President of the First National Bank. Address, Girardville, Schuylkill County, Pa.
WAGNER, George E .:
Fire underwriter; born in Giessen, Ger- many, May 18, 1842; went to Philadel- phia with his parents in August, 1849; ed- ncated in the public schools; went into business in 1857 as errand boy; in 1860 he started business on his own account as coal salesman, collector of debts, etc. In April, 1861, he served as a private in Company D, Twentieth Regiment, Penn- sylvania Infantry, and Company D, Eigh- ty-eighth Pennsylvania Infantry, as pri- vate, First Sergeant, Second Lieutenant,
being promoted to First Lieutenant, De- cember, 1862. In September, 1863, he joined the Eighth Regiment, United States Colored Troops, as Captain of Company A, and was made Major September, 1561; Lieutenant Colonel Ninth Regiment U. S. Colored Troops November, 1864. Served in Patterson's army in the Shenandoah Val- lay, in Alexandria, Va., and the defences of Washington; was with Pope's army in Virginia at the second battle of Bull Run, when it became a part of the Army of the Potomac; was wounded at battle of OInstee. Fla .; accompanied his regiment in Earley's raid across the Potomac; took part in the attacks before Petersburg, and Richmond Va .; resigned and retired from the service in December. 1864; was brevetted Colonel United States Volun- teers. After leaving the service he was commissioned as Colonel of and for sev- eral years commanded the Eleventh Reg- iment, National Guard of Pennsylvania. He resumed business as a stock broker, becoming a member of the Philadelphia Stock Exchange; since 1866 in the in- surance business. President of the Phila- delphia Fire Underwriters and of the Philadelphia Fire Insurance Patrol; Pres- ident and Director of several business or- ganizations, including directorship in two national banks. Member of Union League of Philadelphia, Germantown Club, Post No. 2, G. A. R., Department of Pennsyl- vania, and Military Order of the Loyal Legion, Pennsylvania Commandery; since 1864 a member of the Masonic fraternity; in the Grand Lodge and Grand Chapter has filled the offices up to and including those of Grand High Priest and Grand Master. Address, 401 Walnut St., Phila- delphia, Pa.
WAGNER, JJ. S .:
President of the Tri-County Banking Company of Pottstown. Address, Potts- town, Montgomery County, Pa.
WAGNER. Louis:
President of Board of City Trusts; born in Giessen, Hesse-Darmstadt, Germany, on Aug. 4, 1838; his father and family came to America in 1849, settling in Phil- adelphia, Pa., -when Louis was eleven years old; educated partly in the school at Giessen, Germany, and in grammar school, Philadelphia. He was in litho- graph business until the breaking out of the Civil War, when he was mustered in the Eighty-eighth Pennsylvania Vohin- teers, and was commissioned as First
761
WHO'S WHO IN PENNSYLVANIA.
Lieutenant of Company D; he took part in several engagements, and was promoted to the captaincy of Company D; placed in charge of Camp William Penn in Phila - delphia as a Lieutenant Colonel, brevet, United States Army, where he organized the first regiment of colored troops; was assigned to the command of a brigade in the Fifth Army Corps. He was subse- quently made a Brigadier General by brevet, and was honorably discharged from the service, having served almost continuously from the beginning to the end of the war. Married Miss Hattie Slo- cum, Aug. 4, 1$59. Republican in politics. He is a thirty-second degree Mason, member of the Grand Lodge and one of the organizers of and President from its organization of the Masonic Home of Pennsylvania. In civil business and polit - ical life he was the first Director of Public Works of Philadelphia; served as City Councilman and President of Common Council; Recorder of Deeds of Philadel- phia, a Guardian of the Poor, Board of Public Education, one of the Park Com- missioners, member from 1875 to 1892 and since 1892 President of the Board of City Trusts, whose chief trust is Girard Col- lege; also Wills Hospital, etc. He was general insurance manager, manager of Glenville Coal Company, and is Presi- dent of the Third National Bank of Phila- delphia and Chairman of Sinking Fund Commission. He was one of the organ- izers of the Grand Army of the Republic and a Past Commander-in-Chief; he was President of the German Society of Phil- adelphia; held highest offices in the Good Templars of Pennsylvania; is the head of the Sons of Temperance in the United States and British Provinces. Address, Third National Bank, Philadelphia, Pa.
WAGNER. Samuel:
Lawyer; born in Philadelphia. Dec. 28. 1842; son of Samuel and Emille Obrié (Duval) Wagner; received his preliminary education in the Episcopal Academy of Philadelphia: he was graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 1861; de- gree of A. M. in 1864; he also took a course of law at the same institution. Married, at Philadelphia in 1593, Anne Leonard, daughter of Edward Seymour Harlan. He was instructor in mathe- matics. Episcopal Academy, 1861-1863; served in First Regiment, Pennsylvania Militia, 1862-1863; admitted to Philadel- phia bar, 1866; to the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, 1869; to Supreme Court
of the United States, 1881. Chief of editorial staff Penn Monthly, 1851-1883; Trustee Free Library of Philadelphia; one of the founders of the Pennsylvania Mu- seum and School of Industrial Art; Presi- dent of Wagner Free Institute of Sci- ence since 1884; contributor to reviews. Member American Philosophical Society since 1885; one of the founders of the Penn, Rittenhouse, University, Philobib- lion Clubs. Address, Greenbank Farm, West Chester, Pa .; Franklin Building, 133 South Twelfth St., Philadelphia, Pa. WAHL, William Henry:
Scientific journalist, metallurgist and electro-chemist; born in Philadelphia, Dec. 14, 1848; son of John H. and Caro- line R. Wahl; educated in the public schools of Philadelphia and Dickinson College, receiving the degree of A. B. from the latter in 1867, and the degree of Ph. D. from the University of Heidelberg, Germany, in 1869: took special courses in chemistry, geology. mineralogy. Married, 1874, Julia Lowther, Seafield. County Mayo, Ireland. Resident Secretary of Franklin Institute, 1870-1871, and since 1882; instructor in science, Episcopal Academy, Philadelphia, 1871-1873: Profes- sor of Physics and Physical Geography, Central High School, 1873-1874. Editor Polytechnic Review, Philadelphia, 1876- 1878; associate editor Engineering and Mining Journal, New York. 1978-1980; ed- itor Manufacturer and Builder, New York, 1880-1895; editor Journal Franklin Insti- tute, 1870-1874, and since 18\2. Author of "Galvanoplastic Manipulations." 1$$3; "Techno-chemical Receipt Book" (in col- laboration), 1885; "Handbook of Assay- ing," translated, with additions, from German; "Iconographic Encyclopedia, Vol. V., Constructive Arts." 1\93; "His- torical Sketch of the Franklin Institute." 1894; "Report on Petroleums, as to Their Safety and Danger, National Board of Fire Underwriters," New York: "Wasted Forces." Popular Science Monthly. 1$75; "A New Method for the Preparation of Metallic Manganese" Journal Franklin Institute, 1893; "Preparation of Metallic Alloys." same. 1893. Address, 15 South Seventh St., Philadelphia, Pa.
WAINWRIGHT. E. Z .:
President of the Arsenal Bank of Pitts- burg. Address, Pittsburg, Pa.
WAALBORN. Geo. W .:
Superintendent Public Schools; born in Snyder County, Pa., Jan. 3, 1863; son of
762
WHO'S WHO IN PENNSYLVANIA.
George Walborn; educated in the public schools, Freeburg Academy, and Blooms- burg State Normal School. Taught seven terms in the ungraded schools of Snyder County and one term in the East Sun- bury High School. In 1890 was elected principal of the Freeburg Academy and for twelve years supervisory principal of the public schools in the town of Free- burg. Since 1902 Superintendent of the Public Schools of Snyder County. Ad- dress, Freeburg, Pa.
WALES, Philip Gray:
Major United States Army; born in Pennsylvania; appointed from District of Columbia; Assistant Surgeon, Feb. 7, 18S4; resigned, Nov. 5, 1SS6; Assistant Sur- geon, June 7, 1889; Major Brigadier Sur- geon Volunteers, June 4, 1598; honorably discharged from Volunteers, April 26, 1899; Major Surgeon Thirty-ninth United States Volunteer Infantry, Aug. 17, 1899; honorably discharged from Volunteers, Oct. 30, 1900; Major and Surgeon United States Army, Oct. 27, 1902. Address, Ma- nila, P. I.
WALK, James Wilson:
Physician, sociologist; was born March 14, 1853; son of Rev. Frederick and Mary Harris Walk; was graduated from La- fayette College, 1875; University of Penn- sylvania, M. D., 1878. He has given much attention to charities and published a monthly journal in the interest of organ- ized charity; General Secretary Philadel- phia Society for Organizing Charity, 1882- 1899. Member of Pennsylvania Legisla- ture, 1887,1891; Director Philadelphia City Charities and Correction, 1892-1897; Bu- reau of Health, 1897-1599. Address, 737 Corinthian Ave., Philadelphia, Pa.
WALKER, Clarence:
Lawyer; became interested at the be- ginning of his professional career in the important legal questions of the contest between the Standard Oil Company and the oil producer; his sympathy was with the latter. and in 1887 he became a men- ber of the Butler Assembly of the Pro- ducers' Protective Association. In June, 1891, he helped organize the Producers' Oil Company, Limited, at Bradford, rep- resenting there the Butler Assembly as Trustee and subscribing for them $60.000 of the capital stock of the new company. He was elected a member of the first Board of Managers of this company, a position he has held ever since. He suc-
ceeded Mr. Wood in 1895 in the Board of Managers of the Producers and Refiners' Company, and was elected a Trustee of the trust stock of the Pure Oil Company at its organization, a position he now holds. Address, Butler, Pa.
WALKER, George A .:
President of the First National Bank. Address, Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.
WALKER, James Baynes:
Physician; born Dec. 16, 1846; son of Thomas Robinson and Mary Baynes Walk- er; he was educated at the Friends' Cent- ral School, Philadelphia, and was graduat- ed from the Medical Department, Univer- sity of Pennsylvania, 1872; Ph. D., Univer- sity of Pennsylvania, 1874; taught school five years; lecturer on physiology and hy- giene at the Friends' Central School eigh- teen years; he was interne physician at the Philadelphia Hospital, 1872-1873; visiting physician, same, 1876-1893; visit- ing physician, Woman's Hospital, 1879- 1890; Professor Practice of Medicine, Woman's Medical College of Pennsyl- vania, 1879-1890; ex-President Northern Medical Association of Philadelphia; Sec- retary, 1SS3-1895 (1) and President, 1896 (2) of American Climatological Associa- tion. Member College of Physicians, Phil- adelphia; American Medical Association. Philadelphia County Medical Society, Pennsylvania Association, Pediatric Socie- ty, Medical and Union League Clubs, Phil- adelphia, and American Academy of Med- icine. Consulting physician, Woman's Hospital, West Philadelphia. Address, 1617 Green St., Philadelphia, Pa.
WALKER, James J .:
President of the First National Bank. Address, Forest City, Susquehanna Coun- ty, Pa.
WALKER, Joseph C .:
President of the Gap National Bank; born at Gap, April 4, 1832; was graduated at Unionville Academy, Chester County, Pa .; direct descendant of Lewis Walker. who emigrated from England in 1681 and located at or near Valley Forge; entered mercantile life in 1853 under Baker & Hopkins at Gap, Pa; entered into the transportation business in 1855, and suc- ceeded the firm of Baker & Hopkins in 1857; at that period grain and coal dealers had their own railroad cars. Republican in politics. Was Postmaster and Justice of the Peace many years, also Interna-
763
WHO'S WHO IN PENNSYLVANIA.
tional Revenue Collector during the War of the Rebellion. Was one of the Pennsyl- vania Commissioners to the Columbian Exposition at Chicago in 1892; Chairman of Horticulture and Floriculture; also one of the Commissioners appointed by Gov- ernor Hastings in 1897 to examine the Atlantic coast defence during the Span- ish-American War. In 1856 he married Luey Hiester Ellmaker, daughter of Esaias E. Ellmaker of New Holland, Pa. Address, Gap, Laneaster County, Pa.
WALKER, Thomas McCormick:
Member of the Pennsylvania Comman- dery of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion: Major 111th Pennsylvania Infan- try, Dec. 15, 1861; Lieutenant Colonel. Nov. 7, 1862; Colonel, April 23, 1865; hon- orably discharged, July 19, 1865; brevetted Brigadier General United States Volun- teers, July 5, 1865, for meritorious ser- vices. Elected May 5, 1897. Address, Erie, Pa.
Need help finding more records? Try our genealogical records directory which has more than 1 million sources to help you more easily locate the available records.