Biographical Sketch of Robert Walker, Gasconade County, Missouri

>From "History of Franklin, Jefferson, Washington, Crawford and 
Gasconade Counties", Biographical Appendix, Goodspeed Publishing 
Company, 1888.

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Robert Walker, prosecuting attorney of Gasconade County, and one of its
leading young attorneys, was born near Hermann, Mo., October 15, 1858.
His father, whose birth occurred in Switzerland November 19, 1821, left
there at the age of nineteen, and after living at Paris, France several
years, came to America in 1848; the gold excitement then revalent indu-
ced him to visit California, and in all he made three trips there, pur-
chasing cattle in Missouri and driving them across the plains, where
they were sold at a good profit; he also engaged to some extent in dig-
ging gold.  In the spring of 1856 he purchased a farm in the northern
part of Gasconade County, on which he settled and where he still lives.
In the spring of 1856, Miss Mattie Gulden became his wife; she was born
in New Jersey, August 9, 1837, and when a child accompanied her parents
to near Hermann, where she was reared.  The subject of this sketch 
spent his boyhood and early manhood almost entirely on the farm, and
during his younger years attended the public schools in the winter
seasons.  When about twenty years old he entered Central Wesleyan Coll-
ege, at Warrenton, attended one year, and then taught school for four
winters in the country, working on the farm during vacation.  In the
fall of 1884 he became a student of law at the Missouri State Univer-
sity, graduating in the spring of 1886.  In the following fall he 
became a candidate for prosecuting attorney, and as an independent was
elected, after which he removed to Hermann, and began the practice of
his profession in connection with his official position.

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