CHESTER L. WALKER History of Arizona, 1930, pg 313 One of the most responsible civic positions in Arizona is that of superintendent of the Western Navajo Indian Reservation in the supervision of which he has shown himself a man of mature and dependable judgment. He was born at Euchee, Meigs County, Tennessee, on the 13th day of September 1893 and is a son of Thomas C. and Louise (McCall) Walker, the former of whom traced his relationship back to Daniel Boone, the noted frontiersman. Mr. Walker received a good public and high school education and then took the teacher's training course in the Southwest State Normal School at Weatherford, Oklahoma. He taught school in that state until 1913, when he entered the government Indian Service in the office of the agent for The Five Civilized Tribes at Muskogee, Oklahoma. He has been in the Indian service continuously since, with the exception of his war service. He enlisted in the One Hundred and Forty Fourth Field Artillery, Fortieth Division and was in training at Camp Kearney until ordered overseas. He was in France for five months and on his return home was honorably discharged. He at once resumed his work in the Indian service, and in 1923 came to Arizona as traveling auditor for the Indian service. He spent three years in this line of work in the Southwest and then, in April 1926 was appointed to his present position. He has here under his supervision seven thousand Navajo, three hundred and fifty Hopi and there is on the reservation one boarding school with a capacity of five hundred students; one day school, with a capacity of thirty pupils, a sanitarium, with a capacity of fifty beds and a hospital, with a capacity of thirty six beds. Mr. Walker has handled his position in a very tactful and judicious manner, has encouraged and fostered everyone's respect and is well liked. On July 25, 1921 Mr. Walker was united in marriage to Miss Bessie E. Teague and they are the parents of one son, Floyd M., now seven years of age. USGenWeb Project NOTICE: In keeping with our policy of providing free information on the internet, data may be used by non-commercial entities, as long as this message remains on all copied material. These electronic pages may not be reproduced in any format for profit, nor for commercial presentation by any other organization. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material, must obtain express written permission from the author, or the submitter and from the listed USGenWeb Project archivist. submitted by burns@asu.edu