Jonathan Walker Biography - Grant County Wisconsin

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Submitted by David W. Taft, dtaft @ cowtown.net

History of Grant County Wisconsin
Western Historical Publishing, Chicago, July 1881
Town of Fennimore, Biographical Sketches, Page 991 

JONATHAN WALKER, farmer, Sec. 30; P. O. Fennimore; he is a son of Joseph Walker, 
who was born in the State of Massachusetts; he moved to the State of New York, 
and thence to Michigan; he came with his family to Grant Co. while the State was 
yet a Territory, and settled in the town of Fennimore; he died in the fall of 
1880; had five sons and two daughters, four sons and one daughter still living.  
Jonathan was born in the State of New York, August, 1833; came to Wisconsin with 
his parents.  He married Louisa Eldred, who died in January, 1877; has ten 
children - five sons and five daughters.  Mr. Walker enlisted in the 33d W. V. 
I., served till the close of the war; settled on present farm in the spring of 
1871; farm contains 285 acres of land.