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.

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