James Leroy Walker Biography, Charles Mix County, SD

	This biography is taken from the "Standard Atlas of Charles Mix 
	County (1906)", published by Geo. A. Ogle & Co. Page 55

	Transcribed by Joy Fisher, sdgenweb@yahoo.com and may be copied for 
	non-profit purposes. All other rights reserved.


James Leroy Walker came into the county in 1878 as stage driver for the
Wyoming Stage Company. He moved his family to a place near his present home
in 1880, and broke a part of his claim that same year but did not file on
the land until 1881, when he also moved his family onto his homestead.
Mr. Walker was a New Yorker, and had lived a year or two at Vermillion
in the early 70's and later at Yankton. He continued in the stage business
until about 1884, "driving stage by day and farming by night." He has lived
on the same farm in section 30 southwest of Platte ever since. Mr. Walker
is one of the old timers whose recollections of early events is very clear
and exact. He relates many amusing incidents of those early free and easy
times.