Crawford County IA Archives Biographies.....Walker, Henry 1826 - 
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Author: Lewis Publishing Co. (1893)

HENRY WALKER, residing on a farm near Manilla, Iowa, is one of the first
settlers of this part of the country. He dates his arrival here in 1871, when
this section of the country was a vast prairie, without any improvements
whatever, and with its development he has been thoroughly identified.

  Mr. Walker was born near Darlington, England, September 24, 1826, only child
of John and Hannah (Harland) Walker, natives of Richmond and North Allerton,
England, respectively. In 1865 the family left England, came to America and
settled in Mazo Manie, Dane county, Wisconsin. The father died at Middlebury,
Iowa county, Wisconsin, at the age of fifty-seven years. The mother subsequently
came to Crawford county, Iowa, where her death occurred July 16, 1881, in her
seventy-first year. John Walker was a linen-weaver by trade, and was foreman for
one man twenty-one years.

  Henry Walker lived in Iowa county, Wisconsin, until 1871, when he came with
two teams and wagons and eighteen head of cattle and settled on the land upon
which he now lives. Here he improved 160 acres of land. Recently he has laid out
an addition to Manilla, in which are some valuable lots and good property. His
farm adjoins the town and is nicely improved with good buildings, fences, etc.

  Mr. Walker was married at Stockton, Durham county, England, September 15,
1849, to Miss Ann Watson, who has proved herself a worthy helpmate to him. She
was born at Richmond, Yorkshire, England, one of the family of two sons and two
daughters of John and Elizabeth (Dalton) Watson. Her parents both died in
England. Mr. and Mrs. Walker have three children: John Henry, Abraham Coulson
and Hannah Elizabeth, wife of John Bayles. Mr. Bayles is a well-known early
settler of this county.

  Mr. Walker affiliates with the Republican party. He is a man respected and
esteemed by all who know him.


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BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY OF 
Crawford, Ida and Sac Counties, Iowa.

Containing Portraits of all the Presidents of the United States, with
accompanying Biographies; a Condensed History of Iowa, with Portraits and
Biographies of the Governors of the State; Engravings of Prominent Citizens of
the Counties, wth [sic] Personal Histories of many of the Early Settlers and
Leading Families.

"Biography is the only true history."—Emerson.

CHICAGO: THE LEWIS PUBLISHING COMPANY.
1893.


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