Arthur C. Walker Biography from History of Rockingham County, New Hampshire
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Surname: WALKER
Source:  History of Rockingham County, New Hampshire and Representative Citizens
          by Charles A. Hazlett, Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., Chicago, Ill., 1915

Page 962

     ARTHUR C. WALKER, a prosperous merchant of Rye, No H.,
Dealing in meats and groceries, also operating a variety store in con-
nection with his other business, was born in Rye, November 17, 1873,
a son of George S. and Augusta (Page) Walker. Both his parents were
born in this county, the father in Rye and the mother in North Hamp-
ton; Their children were: Eliza Ann, wife of Charles Grant, and Maude
Gertrude, wife of Fred Hankin. By a second marriage to Christie Foss,
George S. Walker has two other children, Raymond O. and Dona A.
     Arthur C. Walker was educated in the common and high schools
of Rye. He then worked for some years in Portsmouth as clerk in a
meat and grocery business. He then had a grocery store at Rye for
a while, but was burned out and returned to Portsmouth, where he
continued in the same business. Later he was clerk for William Ward
& Sons for ten or twelve years; after which, returning to Rye, he estab-
lished himself in his present business. He is a Republican in politics,
and has served on the local school board. He is past master of the

Pages 963 and 964 contained a portrait for a different biography

Page 965

Grange, past councilor of Seaside Council, Junior Order of American
Mechanics and belongs also to the Knights of Pythias at Portsmouth
and to the Royal Arcanum.
Mr. Walker was married November 25, 1897, to Ariadne M. Banks,
who was born in New London, Ct., a daughter of Fred S. and Ida
M. (Saggers) Banks, her father- being a native of Amesbury, Mass.,
and her mother of New London, Ct. They had two children, Ariadne
M., now Mrs. Walker, and Fred Percy. Mr. and Mrs. Walker have
two children, lona A. and Doris E. They attend, the Congregational
Church. Mrs. Walker holds the office of postmistress at Rye, having
been appointed under civil service rules; during the administration of
President Taft.

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