Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography/Walker, Katherine Kent Child

WALKER, Katherine Kent Child, author, b. in Pittsford, Vt., about 1840. She is a daughter of the Rev. Willard Child, D. D., and in 1863 married the Rev. Edward Ashley Walker, who was graduated at Yale in 1856, and died in 1866 after a brief pastorate at the Old South church, Worcester, Mass. She wrote a famous article on the “Total Depravity of Inanimate Things,” which appeared originally in the “Atlantic Monthly” for September, 1864, has contributed to various magazines, and published a version of Bunyan's “Pilgrim's Progress,” for children (New York, 1869); “From the Crib to the Cross” (1869); and a “Life of Christ” (1869). She has also made translations from the German.