BIOGRAPHY: Henry J. WALTERS, 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 420.

  HENRY J. WALTERS, Lewistown, Mifflin county, Pa., one of the oldest living 
residents of the borough, was born in Lewistown, September 7, 1812.  His parents 
were Charles Stewart and Jane (McDaniel) Walters.  His paternal grandfather was 
Jacob Walters, the first poor-master of Mifflin county, during the 
administration of General Washington;  the poor-house was then an old log 
building at Lewistown.  Charles S. Walters, father of H. J. Walters, was a 
native of Lewistown;  he was a practical watchmaker, having perfected himself in 
that handicraft by study in Europe.  He became later a purser in the United 
States navy.  Mrs. C. S. Walters was born in Newville, Cumberland county Pa.  
Besides their sons, Henry J. and Charles D. Walters, they had one daughter, who 
died at about twelve years of age.  The father died of cholera, in 1837, in the 
State of Indiana;  the mother died in Harrisburg, Pa.
  In the youth of Henry J. Walters, a superior education was not as easily 
acquired as it is to-day, and his education in the schools was limited to about 
nine months;  but whatever may have been lacking in his early advantages has 
been largely compensated for by Mr. Walters' intercourse with the world, and his 
wide experience of men and affairs.  Early in life he learned the art of 
printing;  he was in later years publisher of the Lewistown Republican, and the 
Democratic Sentinel.  He was elected prothonotary, and served six years in that 
office;  he was also for several terms clerk to the county commissioners.  For 
eleven years, he has served as justice of the peace, from which office he 
retired at the end of his last term, on May 4, 1896, and is now engaged in the 
practise of law.
  Henry J. Walters was married in Lewistown, December 31, 1843, to Henrietta M. 
P. Horner, whose parents are deceased.  Mr. And Mrs. Walters have had three 
children:  Charles W.;  W. Edwin;  and Elizabeth L.;  one alone surviving, W. 
Edwin, who is in South America, where he has been for several years.