BIO: George W. WALKER, Clearfield County, PA
 
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From Twentieth Century History of Clearfield County, Pennsylvania,
and Representative Citizens, by Roland D. Swoope, Jr.,
Chicago: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Company, 1911, pages 514 & 515.
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  GEORGE W. WALKER, a well known resident of Brisbin, Clearfield County, Pa., 
was born at Snow Shoe, Center County, Pa., June 17, 1859, and is a son of James 
and Mary (Hirsh) Walker.
  George W. Walker was reared at Snow Shoe and accompanied the family from there 
to Houtzdale and then to Brisbin, where he has resided for a number of years.  
He was married January 1, 1883, to Miss Mandaine Doherty, who was born at St. 
Johns, New Brunswick, and is a daughter of John and Sarah (Taylor) Doherty.
  John Doherty was born in Canada and his mother's maiden name was Blackmore.  
When he was nine years old he was sent to England to live with an aunt, Mrs. 
Kelly, a lady who had large estates there.  Probably he would have been her heir 
as she entrusted her affairs to him and treated him well, but he grew homesick 
and returned to Canada as a stowaway on a vessel.  He married in Canada and 
lived there until 1881, when he came to the United States and located at 
Brisbin.  He was a filer and saw hammerer by trade and his business was an 
important one in the days when lumbering was carried on so extensively and tools 
were yet fashioned by hand.  He was a man of robust constitution and lived to be 
eighty years of age.  When he was seventy-five years old he was still capable of 
hard work and could earn as high as $4.50 a day at his trade.  His death 
occurred November 3, 1908.  He married Sarah Taylor, who was a daughter of 
Abraham and Matilda (Stover) Taylor, her father being a cousin of Zachery 
Taylor, who was once President of the United States.  Although Mrs. Doherty was 
born in Canada her people on both sides were of Pennsylvania Dutch extraction.  
Both of her grandfathers were Revolutionary soldiers, hence she was eligible, as 
are her daughters, to the Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution.  
She survived her husband for two years, passing away September 4, 1910, at the 
age of eighty-two years.  To John and Sarah Doherty, three children were born, 
namely:  Mandaine, who is Mrs. George W. Walker, Willard, who lives at 
Williamsport, Pa.; and Maud, who is the wife of S. N. Hewlett, civil and mining 
engineer for the Lackawanna Coal and Coke Company, at Wehr, Ind.  Mr. and Mrs. 
Walker have had six children, as follows:  John Doherty, who was born October 7, 
1883, and is superintendent for E. J. Walker & Co., large coal operators; 
Benjamin F., who was born March 13, 1885, died aged eight years; Urania, who was 
born January 1, 1887, married T. B. Lobb and they have one daughter, Eleanor; 
Wallace, who was born October 3, 1888, died a babe of two months; Willard, who 
was born September 15, 1890, is pursuing an electrical engineering course at the 
Carnegie Technical School at Pittsburg and evidently possesses unusual 
mechanical skill; and Maud, who was born June 17, 1893, and is a student in the 
Brisbin High School.  The family belongs to the Baptist church.  John D. Walker 
is a member of the Patriotic Order Sons of America.