Harry E. Walker Biography from History of Rockingham County, New Hampshire
From: Cindy Godbout - 5ofClubs@Mediaone.net

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

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       HARRY E. WALKER, principal of the Exeter High school, was born
at Ellsworth, Maine, June 8, 1875, and is a son of Austin B. and Harriet E.
(Eaton) Walker, and a grandson of Nathan Walker. The family is an old
and representative one of Hancock County.
       Austin B. Walker was born in Orland, Maine, was a merchant for many
years at Ellsworth, and died in New York City, January 31, 1896. He mar-
ried Harriet E. Eaton, also a native of Maine, and they had the following
children: Harry E.; Burton B., who is superintendent and part owner of the
Ellsworth Foundry and Machine Works; and Harriet Sophia. The parents
attended the Unitarian church.
      Harry E. Walker enjoyed excellent educational advantages from boyhood,
 
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attending first the public schools, in 1893 graduating from the Ellsworth High
school and subsequently entering Bowdoin College from which institution he
was graduated in 1901. Prior, however, to taking his collegiate course he had
been an instructor in the Ellsworth High school for four years, and after
leaving college was principal for one year of the high school at Mechanic
Falls, Maine, and occupied the same position for four consecutive years at
Fort Fairfield, in the same state, following which he accepted the call to
Exeter. The educator of today has to meet and overcome many obstacles
that were unknown to teachers of an earlier time and which necessitate long
and careful training and, at the same time, a much wider extent of knowledge
than is found in the text books. Mr. Walker is well qualified to meet every
demand made upon him and is admired and esteemed by his pupils and also
enjoys the high regard of the community as a citizen. He lends his influence
to all movements in any way educational and at present is serving as one of
the trustees of the public library. In politics he is a republican.
       On November 26, 1902, Mr. Walker was married to Miss Annie L. Mc-
Farland, who was born at Ellsworth, Maine, the only child of Edmund and
Emma (Phillips) McFarland, natives also of Maine. Mr. and Mrs. Walker
attend the Unitarian church at Exeter and he is clerk of the parish and also
superintendent of the Sunday school. He retains membership and interest in
his old college societies, the Delta Kappa Epsilon and the Phi Beta Kappa, and
is identified also with the Masonic lodge at Exeter.


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