BIO: Thomas WALKER, M.D., Waynesboro, Franklin County, PA

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Medical Men of Franklin County, 1750-1925 by Ambrose Watts Thrush, M.D.;
Chambersburg, Pa.; Medical Society of Franklin County, Page 165
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THOMAS WALKER, M. D.
1794-1862

  Dr. Walker's ancestors were of English extraction and were among the first 
settlers in Maryland and Pennsylvania.

  Dr. Walker read medicine with Dr. McClellan or Dr. Boggs in Greencastle and 
was a graduate of a Philadelphia Medical School.  Dr. Walker located in 
Waynesboro about 1822 and was in continuous and active practice here until the 
time of his death in 1862.  He was a man of ability and interests and was highly 
respected.

  The Captain John E. Walker, Post No. 287, G. A. R., of Waynesboro, was named 
for a son of Dr. Thomas and Harriet Walker.  Captain John E. Walker, born in 
Waynesboro, March 11, 1839, and killed before Atlanta, Ga., August 5, 1864, shot 
through the temple.  His body was never recovered and rests with the unknown, 
supposedly in some National Cemetery.