sonal and Biographical Sketches of the Early Set- tlers " (2 vols., Cincinnati, 1869) ; " Life of Oliver P. Morton " (Indianapolis, 1877) ; " Life of Alvin P. Hovey " (1888).
WALKER, Cornelius, clergyman, b. near Rich-
mond, Va., 12 June, 1819. His education and
training were obtained at the Episcopal high-school
at Richmond. He was ordained deacon in St. Paul's
church, Alexandria, 12 July, 1845, by Bishop
Meade, and priest in Grace church, Lexington, 23
Sept., 1846, by the same prelate. He was minister
in Amherst county, Va., in 1845-'7, assistant min-
ister in St. Paul's church. Richmond, in 1847-8,
rector of Christ church, Winchester, in 1848-'60,
of Christ church, Alexandria, in 1860-'l, and of
Emmanuel church, Henrico, in 1862-'6. He was
appointed professor of church history in the Theo-
logical seminary of Virginia in 1866, and served
for ten years, when he was made professor of sys-
tematic divinity and homiletics. The degree of
D. D. was given him by William and Mary college
in 1859. Ur. Walker has been a frequent contribu-
tor to reviews and magazines, and has furnished
articles on " Liturgies," " Evidences of Christian-
ity," "Ecclesiastical History," and other similar
subjects for religious cyclopaedias. He has pub-
lished " Biography of Rev. William Duval, City
Missionary " (Richmond, 1854); "Life and Corre-
spondence of Rev. William Sparrow, D. D., Pro-
fessor in the Theological Seminary, Va." (Philadel-
phia, 1876) ; " Biography of the Rev. Charles W.
Andrews, D. D." (1877) ; and " Sorrowing not with-
out Hope " (New York, 1887).
WALKER, Freeman, senator, b. in Charles
City county, Va., 25 Oct., 1780 ; d. in Richmond
county, Ga., 23 Sept., 1827. He removed to Georgia
in 1797, was admitted to the bar, and began prac-
tice in 1802 in Augusta, soon becoming eminent
in his profession. In 1807 he was a member of the
legislature, and in 1819 he was elected United States
senator from Georgia, but in 1821 he resigned. His
speech on the Missouri compromise question at-
tracted general attention.
WALKER, George, senator, b. in Culpepper
county, Va., in 1768; d. in Nicholasville, Ky., in
1819. He was an early settler in Kentucky, where
he held a leading place at the bar, and was a member
of the legislature. He was appointed U. S. senator
from Kentucky in place of George M. Bibb, re-
signed, serving from 10 Oct., 1814, till 2 Feb., 1815.
WALKER, George, diplomatist, b. in Peter-
borough, N. H., in 1824 ; d. in Washington, D. C,
15 Jan., 1888. He was educated at Yale and at
Dartmouth, where he was graduated in 1842, and
studied law at Harvard, where he received his de-
Eree in 1845. He was admitted to the bar at
pringfield, Mass., practising law there from 1847
till 1875, was elected to the Massachusetts senate
in 1857, was re-elected, and in 1868 was a member
of the lower house. He was instrumental in intro-
ducing the national system of banking into the
state, engaged in business in Springfield, Mass.,
and became president of the Third national bank
of that city. In 1865 he was sent to Europe on
a confidential mission by Sec. Hugh McCulloch,
and wrote an article on the public debt and re-
sources of the United States, which was published
in the "Revue des deux mondes" and republished
in German papers. In 1869 he visited Europe on
business connected with the state of Massachu-
setts, and on his return settled in New York city,
engaged in banking, and was elected vice-president
of the Gold and stock telegraph company. In
1879 he was sent to Europe on a confidential
mission by Sec. William M. Evarts, visited Eng-
land, France, and Germany, and made investiga-
tions with special reference to the question of a
bimetallic monetary standard. He was consul-
general in Paris from 1880 till 1887, when he re-
signed, returned to this country, and resided in
Washington, D. C, till his death.
WALKER, Gilbert Carlton, congressman, b.
in Binghamton, N. Y., 1 Aug., 1832; d. in New
York city, 11 May, 1885. He was graduated at
Hamilton college in 1854, admitted to the bar
in 1855, and settled in Oswego, N. Y. He re-
moved to Chicago, 111., in 1859, and engaged in
politics while practising his profession. In 1864
he settled in Norfolk, Va., where he became presi-
dent of the Exchange national bank, and in July,
1869, he was elected governor of Virginia by a
majority of 18,000 over Henry H. Wells, who was
at that time military governor of the state. At
the expiration of his service he was chosen to
congress as a Conservative, serving from 1875
till 1879. He resumed his profession in 1879, and
removed to New York city.
WALKER, Henderson, governor of North
Carolina, b. in North Carolina in 1660: d. near
Edenton, N. C, 14 April, 1704. He adopted the
profession of law, and became a judge of the su-
preme court and president of the council, introduc-
ing many judicial reforms. From 1699 until his
death he was governor of North Carolina, assum-
ing that post by virtue of his office as president of
the council, and not under any appointment as
deputy by the governor-general at Charleston.
George Bancroft says of his rule, " While Eng-
land was engaged in world-wide wars, here the in-
habitants multiplied and spread in the enjoyment
of peace and liberty." The stone that marks
Walker's grave also records that " North Carolina,
during his administration, enjoved tranquillitv."
WALKER, Sir Hovenden, British officer, b. in
Somersetshire, England, about 1660 ; d. in Dublin,
Ireland, in January, 1726. He entered the navy in
his youth, became a captain in 1692, and rear-
admiral of the white in 1710, and in 1711 was
knighted by Queen Anne. In the last-named year
he commanded the fleet that sailed from Boston
on 30 July, for the conquest of Canada. Delays, a
badly organized method of supplies, and the in-
competency of its leaders made the expedition a
failure. Half of Walker's ships were wrecked in a
storm on Isle aux OSufs, on St. Lawrence river,
and Walker returned to England, where he charged
that his troubles had been due to want of proper
co-operation on the part of the New-Englanders.
These charges were answered by Jeremiah Dura-
mer in a " Letter to a Noble Lord concerning the
Late Expedition to Canada" (London, 1712). In
1715 Walker's ship, the "Edgar," of seventy-four
guns, blew up at Spithead, and nearly all the crew
perished. He was blamed for negligence in the
matter, and, his Canadian experience being still
fresh in the public mind, he was dismissed the
service. He then settled on a plantation in South
Carolina. Admiral Walker published in his vindi-
cation " A Journal or Full Account of the Late
Expedition to Canada " (London, 1720).
WALKER, Isaac P. senator, b. in Virginia in 1813; d. in Milwaukee, Wis., 1 April, 1872. He adopted the profession of law, removed to Wisconsin in 1841, practised in Milwaukee, and took an active part in early political events in the state. He served in the territorial congress in 1847-'8, and in the latter year was chosen to the U. S. senate as an Anti-slavery Democrat. His policy in that body was deemed timid by his constituents, for, although he wished to preserve the Union, he
