Bio: Thaddeus A. Walker, Bienville Parish Louisiana
Source: Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Northwest Louisiana
The Southern Publishing Company, Chicago & Nashville,  1890

Submitted by Kay Thompson Brown



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THADDEUS A. WALKER
Merchant
Gibsland, La


The parents of Mr. Walker, William G. and Missouri F. (Candler) Walker, were
natives of Georgia and both are now deceased.  The father was a cotton planter
by vocation.  Their family consisted of four children--three sons and one
daughter-who are here named in order of their birth: Eugene (deceased),
Augusta C. (resides in Bienville Parish, but is now transiently at Montana she
married William H. Todd, formerly a merchant but now a journalist), Thaddeus
A. (subject of this sketch) and George Love (deceased).  

Thaddeus A. Walker was born in Harris County, Ga., on May 16, 1848, but was
early taught the duties of the farm in Louisiana, where he was reared.  His
early educational training commenced by private instructions in the Mount
Lebanon University, and this has fitted him for the practical life he is
leading as a merchant.  When but eighteen years of age he started out for
him-self with but little capital to commence the voyage of life, upon, but he
has persevered and is today one of the substantial and prosperous men of the
parish.  

He was married on April 13, l876, to Miss.  Winnie A. Prothro, a native of
Louisiana, who was educated in the Mount Lebanon College, near Gibsland.  They
are the parents of six children ---five daughters and one son: Gussie W. (aged
thirteen, and is attending the Gibsland College), Pearl (aged twelve is also
attending that school),  Thaddeus A. Jr. (aged tea years, attending school),
Angie (died at the age of ten months), Viola G. (aged seven years), and Irma
C. (aged four years). 

Mr. Walker is a stanch Democrat in his political principles, and has been a
member of the police jury in Bienville Parish for four years, which is one of
the most important positions in the parish. In 1888 Mr. Walker was the motor
power in the erection of the Gibsland Collegiate Institution, and had the
building upon and under his personal supervision.  After the main part was
done his work was transferred to the  Methodists of Homer District.  This is a
monument in the life of Mr. Walker which will ever be as a landmark of the
devoted work to his country in the great and noble cause of local education. 
For two years Mr. Walker was a member of the town council of Gibsland, La. He
is a Master Mason of Mount Lebanon Lodge, and was master of the lodge.  He has
been in the general merchandising business in Gibsland since 1885, and he is
one of the leading merchants of the place.  He carries a full line of goods,
and by his pleasant agreeable manner, coupled with his strict honesty, has won
a large and increasing business.  He is also the owner of considerable land in
Bienville and Claiborne Parishes