BIOGRAPHY: W. Frank WALLS, Cambria County, PA 

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From Wiley, Samuel T., ed. Biographical and Portrait Cyclopedia of Cambria 
County, Pennsylvania. Philadelphia: Union Publishing Co., 1896, p. 459-60
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W. FRANK WALLS, a man of business ability, and the general manager of John C. 
Scott & Sons' general mercantile establishment at Ehrenfeld, is a son of Enoch 
and Dorothea (Isenbery) Walls, and was born March 27, 1863, near Alexandria, 
Huntingdon county, Pennsylvania. He was reared on his father's farm and received 
his education in the common schools of Franklin township, Blair county, and 
Professor Stewart's academy at Hollidaysburg, the county seat. At nineteen years 
of age he left the academy and engaged in teaching, which he had followed only 
one year when he received the offer of a position in the store of Wood, Morrell 
& Co., with whom he remained until they sold to Lloyd & Michael. Under the 
latter firm he served one year and then became a clerk in a large store at 
Bennington, Blair county, where his services were so well appreciated that he 
was promoted to chief clerk, a position which he held up to March, 1893. He then 
accepted his present important and responsible position as general manager of 
the general mercantile establishment, at Ehrenfeld, of John C. Scott & Sons, 
whose Philadelphia office is in the splendid Betz building. Their Ehrenfeld 
establishment is designated as Webster store, No. 3, and Mr. Walls has several 
clerks and the management of a large and varied volume of business. Mr. Walls is 
well qualified for his position and merits the trust reposed in him. Attention 
and experience have added duly to his natural ability for business pursuits and 
his services have been in demand outside of mercantile affairs. While at 
Bennington he was appointed assistant postmaster, and since coming to Ehrenfeld 
has held the same office. At Bennington he was elected and re-elected as a 
member of the school board, of which he was secretary for two years, and 
terminated his membership, which promised to be continued, by removal to 
Ehrenfeld. The Republican party in politics has claimed his allegiance, and he 
faithfully filled the township office given him, though that honor was not 
specially desired. Mr. Walls is a member of the German Reformed church of the 
city of Altoona. He is a member of Juniata Lodge, No. 282, Free and Accepted 
Masons, and the Improved Order of Heptasophs of Hollidaysburg, Blair county. He 
is a man of business enterprise and sagacity, possessing good judgment and being 
prudent in management.
     On May 13,1885, W. Frank Walls wedded Kate Weller, a daughter of John 
Weller, of Frankstown township, Blair county. Mr. and Mrs. Walls have four 
children: John E., James K., Irwin E., and Samuel K.
     The Walls family is of Irish origin, and settled in one section of 
Huntingdon county at an early day. Mr. Walls' grandfather was a farmer of near 
Alexandria, Huntingdon county. His children were: Enoch, and one that died in 
childhood. Enoch Walls received a good common-school education, and has always 
followed farming. He now resides near Frankstown, Blair county, where he owns a 
farm of one hundred and sixty-three acres of productive land, and makes a 
specialty of truck farming. He started poor, but has made a competency, and 
earned the respect of those who know him. He is a republican in politics, and a 
member of the German Reformed church of Altoona. He is also a prominent Odd 
Fellow. Mr. Walls served as an emergency soldier when Lee invaded Pennsylvania 
in 1863. Straightforward, plain and peaceful, he has lived an honest and 
honorable life.
     He married Dorothea Isenbery, whose father, Abraham Isenbery, was a 
resident of Huntingdon county. To their union were born two sons and four 
daughters: Susan M., wife of William Van Allman, of Roaring Springs, this State; 
Nannie C., married John A. Rodkey, of Hollidaysburg; Carrie E., who died in 
childhood; W. Frank; Jacob M., a farmer; and Lizzie F., wife of a Mr. Stewart, 
of the city of Altoona.