ARTHUR WALKER
LIVERY STABLES.
Walker Brothers' livery stable was was opened by them in the spring of 1881, on the corner of Second and Chestnut streets, where they still are in business. In 1884, they erected on this lot, a fine large building, 50x140 feet in ground area, two stories high, which they occupy themselves. This structure cost about $3,000 They use about twenty-seven head of horses, and have a large turnout of excellent buggies, carriages, etc. They are, also, proprietors of the omnibus line, which they put on in March, 1881.
Arthur and Job Walker, of the firm of Walker Brothers, are sons of Henry and Mary (Hines) Walker. Their father had been a justice of the peace in Canton Illinois, and in business was a contractor and builder, but afterwards dropped this to confine his entire attention to the practice of the law. He died August 18, 1861. Arthur Walker was born in Canton, Illinois, August 15, 1854. He spent his early life there, receiving the educational advantages afforded by the local schools there. He then began the study of law in the office of his brother, Meredith, and in 1871, he attended the law department of the Ann Arbor, Michigan university. He then continued his legal studies with his brother, and at the June term of the Illinois supreme court, in 1875, he was admitted to the bar, and commenced the practice of law the same year. He continued in this profession until sometime in 1877, when, developing a taste for business pursuits, he went to Denver, Colorado, and started in the livery business. The undertaking proved successful, and early in 1881, finding an opening in Atlantic, he removed here with his brother to embark in the livery business, and make a permanent location. How well they have succeeded, their well-known progress since coming here will tell. Arthur was married in Illinois, in 1880, to Estella M. Edmiston, of Canton.
[Biography of Job follows here . . .]
The Walker Brothers are among Atlantic's most wide-awake business men, and are courteous, affable gentlemen. They are all quite large owners of city and county property, and today the owners of the finest livery in Cass county.
Contributed by Lisa Varnes-Rex from "History of Cass County, Iowa. Together With Sketches of its Towns, Villages and Townships, Educational, Civil, Military and Political History: Portraits of Prominent Persons, and Biographies of Old Settlers and Representative Citizens." Springfield, Ill.: Continental Historical Company, 1884, pp. 873-874.
