Harrison County Iowa Genealogy

HISTORY OF HARRISON COUNTY, IOWA, 1891
BIOGRAPHIES
Page 868
ORRIN B. WALKER

Orrin B. WALKER, of Missouri Valley, was born in Magnolia Township, Harrison County, Iowa, January 6, 1864. He is the son of Wells F. and Candace E. (HOSPINS) WALKER, who came to the county in the month of May, 1857. The father located on section 16, and coupled farming with carpentering (see complete sketch of our subject's parents elsewhere). Our subject's early education was received in the common shools of Harrison County, and later he attended Pierce's Business College at Keokuk, Iowa, from which school he graduated in September, 1864. During the winter of 1884-85, he taught school in his native township, and the following spring went to Missouri Valley, and entered the employ of the Sioux City & Pacific, and Fremont, Elkhorn & Missouri Valley Railroad Companies. He began his duties there as clerk of material accounts, and later on took charge of time departments. In the spring of 1890, he was elected to the office of City Clerk, and re-elected in the spring of 1891. In the fall of 1890 he was a candidate on the Democratic ticket for the office of County Recorder, and was only defeated by sixty-six majority. He is a member of the Knights of Pythias order, Anchor Lodge No. 66, and adheres to the principles of the Democratic party.

Though yet a young man, by strict attention to all business entrusted to his care, he has built up a good reputatiokn and is looked upon as a first-class accurate business man, who counts his friends by the one word Legion.

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