Harrison County Iowa Genealogy

HISTORY OF HARRISON COUNTY, IOWA, 1891
BIOGRAPHIES
Page 919
C. A. WALKER

C.A. WALKER, a successful merchant at Missouri Valley, came to the place in July, 1874. He was born in Corinth, Orange County, Vt., April 24, 1841. He is the son of Newton and Mary (WILSON) WALKER. The WALKERS are of Scotch descent. The grandmother's people were of English ancestry. The WILSONS were of Irish descent. Grandmother WILSON, whose maiden name was TAILOR, was of Scotch descent. Her husband was a soldier, in both the Revolutionary and War of 1812, and drew a pension for such services several years before his death.

Our subject's father was always a farmer, and still lives midst the scenes of rural life. Upon this farm our subject was born and reared. The date of his father's birth was April 27, 1811, and though now a very old man, is quite active. Our subject's mother died in 1858, and was buried at Corinth, Vt. They reared a family of six children: five daughters and our subject. Four of the daughters still survive, two living in California, one in Boston, and one is Somerville, Mass. Our subject's early education was received in the old Green Mountain State at the common schools, and when seventeen years of age he left school t help his father on the farm. Two years later he went to Manchester, N.H., where he worked in a woolen mill for two years, and from there went to Lawrence, Mass., and there drove a bread-cart for three years We next find him in Kingston, N.C., in 1865, where he acted as an overseer for a plantation for two years. He then returned to Manchester and clerked in a grocery store until he removed to Missouri Valley in 1974. His first work here was in the employ of Ellis & Avery, with whom he remained one year, at the end of which time he began business with Mr. Avery under the firm name of Avery & Co. Later on he formed a partnership with S.B. Shields, under the firm name of Shields & Walker, which partnership existed for four years, when he formed another partnership with Mr. Bradley.

Politically, Mr. WALKER is a Republican, and since his residence in Missouri Valley has served in the City Council three years. He is a member of the Masonic fraternity, and belongs to Valley Lodge, No. 232.

He was united in marriage New Year's day 1868, at Manchester, N.H., to Miss Luvira HOWARD, a native of Vermont, whose parents were of old Puritan stock. She died April 10, 1889, and was buried in Rose Hill Cemetery, at Missouri Valley. July 16, 1890, our subject was married to Florence MOYER, native of Illinois. Her father is deceased and her mother lives in Omaha.

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