Harrison County Iowa Genealogy

HISTORY OF HARRISON COUNTY, IOWA, 1891
BIOGRAPHIES
Page 763
JOHN VALENTINE WALKER

John Valentine WALKER, a native of Indiana, born in Franklin County, April 10, 1829, came to Harrison County in 1868. He is the son of Albert and Elizabeth (MALONE) WALKER, both deceased. Our subject's parents had nine children. His early life was spent in the Hoosier State and was educated in the common-schools, and began farming for himself in 1850. He was a soldier in the Civil War, a member of Company E, Twelfth Indiana Infantry, and was assigned to the Army of Tennessee. He was under Gen. John A. Logan, and after the war returned to Indiana and resumed farming. When he came to Harrison County he located in Magnolia Township and remained there until 1883, then moved to Allen Township, remained three years, and then moved to his present home on section 25, of Little Sioux Township, where he owns six hundred and ninety-five acres of land.

Our subject was married in Indiana in September, 1851, to Miss Rachel WHITELOCK. Our subject and his wife are the parents of two children now living and two who died in infancy. The living are Ozias and Viola, now Mrs. SMITH of Missouri. Mr. WALKER is a Republican, "voting as he shot." He is a member of Magnolia Masonic Lodge.

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