Bucks County PA Archives Biographies.....Walker, John
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Joe Patterson, Patricia Bastik & Susan Walters Dec 2009

Source: History of Bucks County, Pennsylvania; edited by 
J.H. Battle; A. Warner & Co.; 1887
Doylestown M-Z


JOHN WALKER retired, P.O. Doylestown, was born in Solebury 
township, Bucks county, April 6, 1799.  His parents were 
Robert and Asenath (Beans) Walker, both of English descent.  
His grandfather, Joseph, came over from England with his 
brothers, Louis, Samuel, John and Stacy, in 1699.  Joseph 
settled in Bucks county.  He bought a large tract of land 
near Langhorne, where he lived until his death.  Our 
subject's father settled in Solebury township, and lived 
there until his death.  He had ten children by his first 
wife and five by his second, two of whom are still living:  
John and Dr. Amos, who is in his 93rd year.  Our subject was 
reared on a farm and remained thee until he was 21 year of 
age, when he went to Buckingham township and bought a farm 
and engaged in the lime business, also carrying on farming 
for twenty years, when he sold out and bought a farm in 
Montgomery county and carried on farming there twenty years. 
 He owns one hundred and ten acres of land.  In 1858 he 
bought property in Doylestown, where he has since resided.  
He has been twice married; first in 1820, to Buella Walker, 
who died in 1840.  In 1861 he married Eliza C. Williams.  
Mrs. Walker's ancestors were among the first settlers of 
Bucks county.  He invented the first set limekiln in March, 
1833.  In 1835 he went to the West and took up between two 
and three thousand acres of government land in the Wabash 
valley, which he improved and sold for a good advance.  He 
carried on the lime trade very extensively for twenty years.