BIOGRAPHY: Harry C. WALKER, Mifflin County, PA

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The Commemorative Biographical Encyclopedia of the Juniata Valley, Comprising 
the Counties of Huntingdon, Mifflin, Juniata, and Perry, Pennsylvania.
Chambersburg, Pa.: J. M. Runk & Co., 1897, Volume I, page 428.

  DR. HARRY C. WALKER, Lewistown, Mifflin county, Pa., is a native of 
Alexandria, Huntingdon county, Pa., and a son of Henry C. and Susan (Young) 
Walker.  Henry Canan Walker, the father, was born September 27, 1815;  his wife 
on December 3 of the same year.  The children of Mr. And Mrs. H. C. Walker are:  
Evander P., married Satira Stewart, has five children living;  William C., was 
killed at the battle of Antietam, having enlisted in Company I, One Hundred and 
Twenty-fifth Pennsylvania Volunteers;  Salome (Mrs. Alfred Porter), of 
Alexandria, has one child;  Mary (Mrs. Charles Ault), died, leaving two 
children;  Caroline (Mrs. John M. Wilson), died, and left one child;  Dr. Harry 
C.;  Ralph, married Miss Piper, lost his life through an accident, at Altoona, 
Pa.;  George W., graduated from Dickinson College, Carlisle, Pa., in June 1889, 
and died in November of the same year.  Both parents are deceased;  the father 
died November 15, 1869;  the mother, December 5, 1883.
  After finishing his course of study in the public schools of Huntingdon 
county, Harry C. Walker took up the study of dentistry with Dr. Green, of the 
same county.  His first practise was at Belleville, Mifflin county, where he 
resided for one year.  Afterwards, in 1878, he removed to Lewistown, where he 
has been very prosperous, having built up an excellent practise.  The Doctor is 
a man in good standing of the P. O. S. A.  His political opinions are 
Democratic.
  Dr. Harry C. Walker was married in June, 1877, to Margaret, daughter of James 
and Catherine (Isenberg) McClintic.  Their only child, Edna, who was born August 
22, 1881, died July 8, 1894.  The Doctor, as well as the other members of the 
family, attends the Lutheran church.