Routt County CO Archives Biographies.....Walker, Samuel J.  December 1861 - ?
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Author: Progressive Men of Western Colorado

     Samuel J. Walker, a son of William R. by his first wife, was educated in
the common schools and at Hayesville Academy in North Carolina, being graduated
from the academy in 1880.  When a young man of nineteen, seeing no great
opportunity for advancement in his own section, particularly in securing a large
tract of land and carrying on the cattle industry, on which his heart was set,
he decided to come west and grow up with the newer country, and chose Colorado
as his future home.  In 1881 he became a resident of Routt county, making his
home near Hahn’s Peak and working in the placer mines for a short time, after
which he located in the Hayden valley and soon became a leading ranch and stock
man there, residing in that valley and conducting a prosperous live stock
business twenty-three years.  In 1902 he disposed of his cattle and two years
later moved to the town of Yampa, where he turned his attention to
merchandising, connecting himself with the H.J. Hernage Mercantile Company,
being impelled to this change of occupation partially by a panic in the cattle
market and partially by consideration for the health of his wife.  Mr. Walker
has always been a man of great industry and high character.  He has in a marked
degree the confidence and esteem of his fellow citizens of Routt county, and has
been twice elected county assessor as the candidate of the Democratic party to
which he has ever given a firm and loyal support.  He is a stanch believer in
God and Christianity, and belongs to the Missionary Baptist church, but as there
is no organization of that denomination in his neighborhood, he at present
affiliates with the Congregational church at Yampa.  He was made a Master Mason
at Craig, Colorado, in Yampa Lodge, No. 88, in 1898, and joined the order of Odd
Fellows at Hayden, Colorado, in 1897.  Both he and his wife became members of
the Order of the Eastern Star at Yampa in May, 1904.  On October 15, 1884, he
was married, at Rawlins, Wyoming, to Miss Laura Elizabeth Green, oldest daughter
of Rev. Charles M. Green, a Baptist minister of La Veta, this state, who came to
Colorado as a missionary in 1883, and located at La Veta, where he was for a
number of years at different times pastor of the Baptist church.  He was also a
missionary to the Indians in Indian Territory eight years of the twenty-two he
has lived in the West.  Mr. and Mrs. Walker have three children, their daughters
Edna Reba and Wilma Arva, and their son Charles Lawrence.

Additional Comments:
From Progressive Men of Western Colorado.  Chicago:  A.W. Bowen & Co., 1905

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