BIO:  JAMES H. WALKER, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania
   
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  >From Biographical Annals of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania,
  Chicago: The Genealogical Publishing Co., 1905, pages 648-649
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    JAMES H. WALKER, engineer with the Heat, Light & Power Co. of Mt. Holly
  Springs, Cumberland Co., Pa., was born at Carlisle July 10, 1855, a son of
  James R. Walker and a grandson of Richard Walker.
    
    Richard Walker came to America and to Frankford township, Cumberland
  county, early in the seventeenth century [sic], from his native Ireland. He
  followed farming and trucking all his life, married and reared the following
  children: Peter, who died in Frankford township; Thompson, who lives in
  Frankford township; James R., deceased; Nancy, who died in Philadelphia;
  Sarah, who lives in Plainfield, West Pennsboro township; Mrs. Neff, who died
  in Newville; Margaret, who died at Philadelphia; and Mary, who died at
  Carlisle. Richard Walker and his wife died in Frankford township, where they
  were interred.
    
    James R. Walker, father of James H., was born Feb. 12, 1825, in Frankford
  township. He assisted his father on the farm for some time and attended the
  local schools, and then went to Carlisle, where he learned shoemaking, at
  which he worked until the death of his wife, when he sold out and moved to
  Bloserville. He lived in Carlisle some forty years and then bought a farm of
  thirty acres in North Middleton township, where he engaged in the trucking
  business for eight years. After selling that property he bought eighty acres
  in Frankford township, where he lived until moving to Bloserville. Here, at a
  later date, he married the widow of James Logan and removed to her farm until
  her death, when he went to the home of his son, James H., where he died July
  22, 1903, at the age of seventy-eight years.
    
    James R. Walker first married Catherine Trough, who was born July 6, 1829,
  at Carlisle, and became the beloved mother of these children: Mary E., born
  Oct. 16, 1850; Charles W., Jan. 7, 1852; Alfred T., March 10, 1853; James H.;
  William M., Sept. 15, 1857; George N., Jan. 23, 1860; Walter, Aug. 30, 1862;
  Charles W., Nov. 30, 1864; and Richard T., Sept. 8, 1868.
    
    James H. Walker was educated at Carlisle and adopted engineering as his
  profession. After marriage he located for two years at Millerstown and then
  followed his business in North Middleton township for several years, finally
  coming to Mt. Holly. Springs, South Middleton township. Here he was
  associated with the Mt. Holly Paper Co. for twenty years, since when he has
  been connected with the Heat, Light & Power Co., of this place. An
  experienced man in his line of work, his services are much apprec-
    
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  iated by his employers and his competency has resulted in the good service
  furnished the citizens in what are considered the necessities of life in
  these modern days.
    
    Mr. Walker married Mary Keckler, the estimable daughter of Christian
  Keckler, of Adams county, Pa., and children as follows were born to them:
  Nannie B., born Feb. 18, 1875, died March 15, 1875; Harry Elmer, born May 4,
  1876, died Oct. 8, 1876; Lizzie B., born Feb. 13, 1878, is the wife of G.
  Kunkle, a farmer in South Middleton township.
    
    In politics Mr. Walker is identified with the Democratic party. Fraternally
  he is a member of Mt. Holly Lodge, I. O. O. F., Mt. Holly Lodge, K. P., and
  the Order of American Mechanics. The religious connection of the family is
  with the Lutheran Church at Mt. Holly Springs.