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 Biographies of 
 
 Thomas B. Walker 
 
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 Harriet G.Walker 
 
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 Minneapolis, Minn. 
 
 JAMES T. WHITE A CO. 
 NEW YORK. MCMXV 
 
 
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 THOMAS BARLOW WALKER, 
 publicist, business man, lumbernum 
 and scholar, was born at Xenia, O., 
 Feb. 1, 1840, son of Piatt Bayliss and 
 Anstis (Barlow) Walker. The Walkers 
 were of English stock, who settled during 
 the early history of the country in New 
 Jersey, his father leaving that state early 
 in life for New York. His maternal grand- 
 father was Thomas Barlow, of New York, 
 and two of his uncles were for many years 
 judges, Thomas Barlow In New York and 
 JMoses Barlow in Ohio. His father died 
 en route to California in 1849, and kis 
 mother was left to struggle with adversity 
 with her four young children. At the age 
 of sixteen, young Walker's family removed 
 to Berea, O., where better educational ad- 
 vantages were possible, and from sixteen 
 to nineteen his time was divided between 
 
work and study. After various business 
 adventures, always attended with hard 
 work and generally with success, he re- 
 turned to his books and studies, and the 
 next winter taught a district school in the 
 adjoining township. At the age of nine- 
 teen he became a traveling salesman and 
 traveled throughout the middle West to 
 sell his goods. He was so much impressed 
 with the business possibilities of the west- 
 ern country that he determined to make 
 his home there, and in 1862 settled in jNIin- 
 neapolis, Minn. Soon after his arrival in 
 Minneapolis he joined a government sur- 
 veying party and began work as U. S. 
 surveyor, in which occupation he was en- 
 gaged for a portion of each year for a 
 number of years, surveying a considerable 
 portion of the northern and western part 
 of the state of INIinnesota. While so en- 
 gaged he became acquainted with the white 
 pine regions of the state, which he after- 
 ward began to purchase as a temporary 
 occupation, in connection with other par- 
 ties, and soon after began the manufacture 
 of lumber. He began making purchases of 
 timber lands in a modest way, and formed 
 
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 a partnership with Levi Butler and How- 
 ard Mills, under the firm name of Butler, 
 INI ills & Walker, of which he was the man- 
 ager. This firm was afterward changed 
 to Butler & Walker on account of the ill- 
 health of Mr. JMills. On the burning of 
 their mills a new partnership under the 
 new form of L. Butler & Co. was organ- 
 ized, the new members being O. C. Merri- 
 man, James W. I^ane and Leon Lane. 
 This firm constructed one of the largest 
 sawmills on the east side of the IMissis- 
 sippi river and did a large manufacturing 
 business for several years. In 1877 Mr. 
 Walker and Maj. George A. Camp formed 
 the well-known firm of Camp & Walker, 
 and the Pacific mill, long operated by 
 Joseph Dean & Co., was purchased. He 
 began in 1880 to locate large quantities 
 of pine land on the headwaters of Red 
 I^ake and Clearwater rivers, and to utilize 
 the timber there he organized, with his 
 eldest son, Gilbert M. Walker, the Red 
 River Lumber Co., constructing mills at 
 Crookston, Minn., and Grand Forks, N. 
 Dak., on the Red river. In 1887 a part- 
 nership with H. C. Akeley, of Minneapolis, 
 
 
was formed, and the firm sold large num- 
 bers of the logs to the Minnesota Logging 
 Co. and became the largest timber firm in 
 the state. Mr. Walker afterward ex- 
 tended his land interests into California, 
 where he is recognized as one of the largest 
 individual owners of timber properties in 
 the United States. After settling in 
 Minneapolis, Mr. Walker entered heartily 
 into every movement tending to promote 
 the welfare and growth of that city. Few 
 public-spirited projects failed to receive 
 his contribution of time or money, and in 
 all the various movements undertaken by 
 his fellow-citizens for the betterment of 
 the civic government or the welfare of the 
 people, he took a cordial interest. It was 
 through his personal efforts that the Min- 
 neapolis Business Union was organized, 
 which became a leading factor in building 
 up the business interests of the city. For 
 many years he was a member of the board 
 of managers of the State Reform School, 
 where he made his strong, practical busi- 
 ness habits felt and inaugurated many 
 valuable changes. While Mr. Walker was 
 occupied in the timberland, lumber and 
 
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manufacturing business largely outside the 
 city of Minneapolis, he always exhibited 
 a keen interest in the welfare of Minne- 
 apolis and an ambition to see it placed 
 foremost among the cities of the nation. 
 The city council, and particularly its 
 market committee, worked for twenty 
 years or more to find some one wlio would 
 build a city market. Mr. Harlow Gale, 
 who had for a number of years been run- 
 ning a small establishment called a city 
 market, fronting Bridge square, was com- 
 pelled to abandon it on account of its in- 
 terference with trade and travel, because 
 of the market teams standing in the street. 
 Mr. Walker and ^laj. Camp offered the 
 present market site to Mr. Gale for a 
 location. He sought for several years to 
 find some one to furnish means to build a 
 city market, and as such could not be 
 found then, especially and particularly 
 for the building up of the jobbing trade 
 of ^Minneapolis, the market enterprise and 
 commission-house business was entered 
 into by ^Nlr. Walker and ]\faj. Camp. On 
 the hitter's death Mr. Walker proceeded 
 to rebuild the market, which had burned 
 
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 in the meantime, and it is now regarded 
 as the best commission and market district 
 in the United States. At that time Min- 
 neapolis had but little wholesale trade, 
 nearly all of it for the Northwest being 
 centered in St. Paul. This market became 
 the turning point for the wholesale trade 
 to Minneapolis and made the start which 
 has given to Minneapolis, in large part, 
 the wholesale trade of the Northwest, and 
 making of it the third largest wholesale 
 fruit, vegetable and provision distributing 
 point in the country. It was largely 
 through his agency that the jobbing trade 
 of Mineapolis was established on that 
 basis which has brought it forward to a 
 standing equal to, or ahead of, St. Paul. 
 When the question of the location of the 
 Butler Bros, came up, Mr. Walker was in 
 California, and a commission was sent to 
 San Francisco for the express purpose of 
 securing his consent to build this, one of 
 the finest and largest wholesale houses in 
 this country. It proved to be the turning 
 point in the development of the wholesale 
 trade of Minneapolis. This building con- 
 stituted the largest wholesale house north- 
 
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west of Chicago and without it, and with 
 its location at St. Paul, which otherwise 
 would have been the case, it would have 
 turned the tide in large part against Min- 
 neapolis, as its business men generally 
 agree. Mr. Walker has also taken a most 
 important part in the establishment of 
 other important wholesale houses in the 
 city, and Minneapolis is likewise indebted 
 to him for its public library, of which he 
 has been president since 1885. He secured 
 the enactment which gave to the city the 
 present fine library building. The rapid 
 growth of this institution since its open- 
 ing day in 1889 has given it a standing 
 in circulation per capita greater than any 
 other public library system of the coun- 
 try. The perfect harmony of action be- 
 tween the two boards of the new library 
 and the Athenaeum, and the pride of the 
 citizens in it, are the best possible wit- 
 nesses to the liberal policy inaugurated by 
 INIr. Walker. From its inception he has 
 been a principal supporter of the art 
 school ; he has been for many years a true 
 friend of the Y. M. C. A., and has served 
 as the Northwestern member of its na- 
 
tional committee. He has been for many 
 years presiding officer in the Methodist 
 Social Union and Church Extension So- 
 ciety, which has for its special object the 
 assisting of smaller and less favored 
 churches with means for building or en- 
 larging or repairing churches, or paying 
 off debts, pastor's salaries, or other ex- 
 penses. Through this agency, and large- 
 ly through Mr. Walker's contributions, 
 the thirty jMethodist churches in Minne- 
 appolis are better equipped and freer 
 from debt than those of any other city in 
 America. With all his business cares he 
 has not neglected the finer side of life. 
 He has been a deep and thorough student 
 of all questions of social, industrial and 
 political affairs and despite his manifold 
 business interests he devotes a large part 
 of the day and evening to studying prob- 
 lems of the times, writing articles for pub- 
 lication and preparing addresses to be de- 
 livered before the Y. M. C. A., the church 
 and business associations. He has a splen- 
 did private library of volumes, covering 
 standard authors in philosophy, science, 
 history, political economy, poetry and art, 
 
and what is even more notable, a rare 
 collection of fine paintings and other ob- 
 jects of art, said to be one of the finest 
 art galleries in Europe or America. It 
 consists of about four hundred paintings 
 in his private gallery adjacent to his 
 home, and about one hundred unhung of 
 the old masters and modern European 
 nnd American artists that have been gath- 
 ered from the fine galleries of England, 
 France, Italy, Germany and Spain, as 
 well as in this country. His large collec- 
 tion of Chinese, Persian, Japanese, Corean, 
 wedgewood and delft pottery and porce- 
 lain is regarded as the finest collection of 
 the kind known, and his collection of jades 
 ranks above any known collection. He 
 has a magnificent collection of crystals 
 and cut hard stones of most beautiful 
 color and form, together with a large col- 
 lection of specimens of precious stones 
 and magnificent crystals ; also the largest 
 and finest collection of ancient bronzes 
 from China and Japan, and all supple- 
 mented by the finest collection of ancient 
 glass and necklaces to be found elsewhere. 
 The T. B. Walker art gallery has been 
 
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 pronounced one of the finest and most mag- 
 nificent large collections of the Art World. 
 It was through Mr. Walker's instrumen- 
 tality that it was provided that the Minne- 
 apolis Public Library should include the 
 old Athenaeum Library, and that provisions 
 were made for the art room and for the 
 Academy of Science. He was the prime 
 mover and originator of the public library, 
 in recognition of which he has been an- 
 nually re-elected president of the board 
 since its organization. He is also a mem- 
 ber of many of the prominent national 
 scientific and educational associations. 
 His residence is in the central part of the 
 city, the grounds having a frontage of 
 two hundred and fifty feet on the business 
 street and nearly the same on Eighth 
 street, with rows of benches under the 
 trees that are available to the public. 
 The property has been unfenced for many 
 years, and is, so far as known, the first 
 open lawn in this country. The idea was 
 soon put in practice by others, until it 
 spread quite generally throughout the 
 city of Minneapolis, and from there to 
 other cities of the United States. Of high 
 
aiins and large views, INIr. Walker has 
 marked personal characteristics which 
 command great respect in the conmiunity 
 in which lie dwells. He has endowments 
 morally fis well as intellectually of a high 
 order. The best principles, not merely of 
 integrity, but of honor and fairness, gov- 
 ern him in all his transactions. His word 
 has always been as good as his bond. 
 Superadded to these principles is a square- 
 ness and kindliness that bring confidence 
 and good-will from all who approach him 
 or have dealings with him. He possesses 
 a clear head, a strong and firm mind, ca- 
 pable of study and application for ex- 
 cessively long hours each day and often 
 extending quite into the night, which 
 through his long career he has followed 
 from his early school days. His library is 
 perhaps the largest private collection of 
 standard literature, works on science, art, 
 politics, social questions, religion and edu- 
 cation to be found in the Northwest. INIr. 
 Walker has employed in his extensive tim- 
 ber, logging and lumber operations and in 
 government surveys, in exploring and es- 
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 many thousands of men. There has never 
 been a labor union formed among them, 
 as they have never found any reason for 
 combined efforts to secure satisfactory 
 treatment at satisfactory wages. He has 
 had continually the good-will and friendly 
 attitude of his workmen and superinten- 
 dents that has given to him their confi- 
 dence and efficient services, which has en- 
 abled him to pay them materially higher 
 wages and give more considerate treat- 
 ment, that has brought most friendly rela- 
 tions, as well as success in the enterprises. 
 He has never had a known enemy or un- 
 friendly employee among all his workmen. 
 His whole career has been directed by prin- 
 ciples of integrity, fairness and liberality. 
 Every question is referred to them without 
 hesitation. This has established confi- 
 dence and faith in his ability and reliabil- 
 ity that has given him capital and the co- 
 operation of others that has enabled him 
 to work out large enterprises that have 
 been the key to his business success. Not 
 merel}'^ to record the birth, early history 
 and business accomplishments of Mr. 
 Walker is this article prepared, but his 
 
successful, useful course through life is 
 mingled with a desire that the account of 
 his life work shall he made a stimulus and 
 inspiration, so that, hy following the same 
 lines, others may secure to themselves that 
 success which is always certain to follow. 
 He is cultured and refined, and, as a 
 Christian, lives a life full of good works 
 and well worthy of emulation. 
 
 In ^Ir. W;dkcr's school-days the ap- 
 parent attraction towards the testimony 
 of the science of geology that was just 
 then coming to the front was creating 
 much discussion and a general impression 
 that the indisputable evidence of vast ages 
 of time in which the earth had been in 
 existence might overturn the teachings of 
 the Bible and destroy Christianity. Tak- 
 ing up this and the collateral subject of 
 the antiquity of the human race and the 
 science or subject of phrenology, which 
 was looked upon as teaching materialism 
 of the mind, a large amount of time was 
 devoted to the study of these subjects 
 from all points of view. That of geology 
 was not from books and charts alone, but 
 from actual experience with hammer and 
 
chisel in the stone quarries wherever he f ^ 
 could visit them. From these and from 
 careful study of the different textbooks 
 and authorities he was able to see and 
 consider all sides of the questions. The 
 truths of Christianity from the side of 
 Butler's Analogy, Paley's "Natural The- 
 ology," Keith's "Exposition of Historical 
 Prophesy," Warburton's "History of 
 Julian's Attempt to rebuild the Temple of 
 elerusalem," Bishop Watson's reply to 
 Tom Paine, Hugh Miller's "Testimony of I J 
 g the Rocks," Lyell's "Antiquity of Man," 
 Home's "Introduction to Christianity," 
 on one side, and Tom Paine's "Age of 
 Reason," the works of Hume, Gibbon's 
 "Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire," 
 Voltaire's works and other atheistic writ- 
 ings, on the other side. These years of 
 careful study brought the conviction that 
 this life is but a preliminary, probationary 
 time allotted to each to determine his fit- 
 ness or acceptance for a higher continu- 
 ous life as shown in the New Testament. 
 
 In the subjects collateral to religion 
 and Christianity, sociology, political 
 economy, industrial and economic affairs 
 
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as well as a considerable acquaintance 
 with philosophy, natural science and tariff 
 protection of industries have all been sub- 
 jects of continuous study, observation and 
 discussion. 
 
 His library shows hundreds of volumes 
 of books read, leaves turned down and 
 marginal notes calling attention to 
 pointed items. From these he has com- 
 piled a book called "The Testimony of 
 the Ages," generally regarded as the most 
 satisfactory compilation of evidences of 
 the truths of Christianity and after-life 
 that has ever been compiled, ranging over 
 the ages from Plato and Aristotle to the 
 present time among the leading minds of 
 the world. 
 
 As president of tlie INIinnesota Academy 
 of Science which he has been interested in 
 upbuilding for many years, and as north- 
 western member of the International Com- 
 mittee of the Y. M. C. A. and of the City, 
 State and University Y. M. C. A. local 
 associations and a member of almost all 
 the prominent political and social organi- 
 zations of the country, whose meetings and 
 discussions he has often taken part in — 
 
the American Economic Association, 
 American Association for the Advance- 
 ment of Science, American Civic Associa- 
 tion, American Forest r^^ Association and 
 Geographical Association, Historical So- 
 ciety, Commonwealth Club of California, 
 Minneapolis Civic and Commerce Associa- 
 tion, Minneapolis Commercial Club, Fed- 
 eration of Labor, and many other na- 
 tional, state and city associations ; as 
 president of the library board for all the 
 3"ears since it was organized through his 
 agency, the Church organizations and the 
 two Social Unions and Church Extension 
 Societies of the Methodist Church and 
 very many years an active member of the 
 Reform School Board of jNIinnesota and 
 for many years president of the Business 
 Men's Union of Minneapolis, and an active 
 part taken in the discussion of the impor- 
 tant political and industrial problems of 
 the present time, he has perhaps shown 
 as busy and active, as well as useful a life, 
 as could well be found amongst the Amer- 
 ican people. 
 
 In his business life he has been asso- 
 ciated with some of the most prominent 
 
and influential men of the Northwest and 
 sometimes of the East. In all his dealings 
 
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 with these there has never been the slight- 
 est misunderstanding or contention, but 
 harmony, goodwill and abiding confidence 
 and friendly consideration between him 
 and his partners. And amidst all of this 
 multitude of busy affairs he has raised a 
 family of children to whom he has given 
 a large amount of time and attention in 
 their education and training. He built 
 for them in his large yard in the centre 
 of Minneapolis a large building as a 
 workshop containing a small power plant, 
 with lathes, plainers, anvils, vises and all 
 manner of tools for working in iron and 
 wood, and a very complete gymnasium in 
 which his sons spent a large portion of 
 time for over sixteen years in work and 
 gymnasium exercises. And at the back 
 of the gymnasium building was erected by 
 the boys a high platform and toboggan 
 slide that sent their sleds or toboggans 
 across the yard and out into the street 
 and the length of a block or more in either 
 direction after the street was reached. 
 When his present residence was con- 
 
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structcd thlrt^^-seven years ago, the large 
 yard was smoothed off, sodded down and 
 left open without fence. Contrary to the 
 universal expressions of disapproval at 
 that time it has been left open to the 
 present time. There were also placed on 
 the front of both Hennepin avenue and 
 Eighth street thirty or more benches 
 around the margin of his grounds, and 
 occupied mostly day and night in pleasant 
 weather by the public. Contrary to the 
 universal judgment there has been no dif- 
 ficulty or trouble or any serious tres- 
 passing or damage to his place or per- 
 sonal property, and this was the begin- 
 ning of the open lots in the United States 
 spreading first over Minneapolis, until 
 there is scarcely a fence now in the city, 
 and reaching out as a precedent in other 
 cities that has made them look less like 
 prison grounds than formerly. 
 
 It is the generally expressed opinion of 
 the older generation of those who have 
 been themselves prominently engaged in 
 the upbuilding and development of the 
 city's growth from a village to an impor- 
 tant citv, that no other citizen has con- 
 
tributcd more than a moderate fractional 
 part that Mr. Walker has in advancing 
 the growth and prosperity of Minneapolis 
 and incidentally of the Northwest than he 
 has contributed. This relates to the edu- 
 cational, social, religious, industrial and 
 political development. 
 
 And in all this he has had the goodwill 
 and favor of all classes and particularly 
 the working men. 
 
 In 1898, The Minneapolis Times insti- 
 tuted a voting contest for determining 
 who were the most popular citizens, with 
 the result that Mr. Walker received more 
 votes than any other. 
 
 And in the elections for library director 
 at the several elections during the past 
 twenty-eight years, there is almost an en- 
 tirely unanimous vote from all parties for 
 him, including tlie Democrats, Temper- 
 ance party and Socialists, as well as the 
 Republicans, of which he is a prominent 
 member. 
 
 Although In the measurement and esti- 
 mate of character, general proficiency or 
 aptness for all things usually signifies 
 limited abilities and proficiency in none. 
 
jc't this docs not to any extent apply to 
 the subject of this sketch, for while he 
 has a quite wide range of characteristic 
 abilities, they are only those that are 
 founded upon good judgment, thorough 
 stud}^, wide experience and earnest devo- 
 tion and occupation of time that makes 
 for a most useful, helpful and successful 
 life in those various lines that make for 
 the upbuilding, welfare and prosperity, 
 not only of his adopted city, but extend- 
 ing over the Northwest and to some ex- 
 tent over the nation. As a successful and 
 useful life, Mr. Walker's will compare 
 most favorably with any of the citizens 
 of the Northwest. 
 
 He was married Dec. 19, 1863, to Har- 
 riet G., daughter of Pletcher Hulet, and 
 has five sons living: Gilbert M., Fletcher 
 T.., Willis J., Clinton L. and Archie D. 
 Walker, all associated with him in his lum- 
 ber interests; one son, Leon B. Walker, 
 who died in 1867; one daughter, Julia 
 wife of Ernest F. Smith, and a daughter 
 Harriet, who died in 1904, who was mar- 
 ried to Rev. Frederick C. Holman, pastor 
 of Hennepin Avenue M. E. Church. 
 
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HARRIET GRANGER WALK- 
 ER, philanthropist and reformer, 
 was born at Brunswick, O., Sept. 
 10, 1841, youngest daughter of Fletcher 
 and Fanny (Granger) Hulet, natives of 
 Berkshire county, Mass. Her grand- 
 father, John Hulet, of Lee, Mass., played 
 a distinguished part in the battle of 
 Bunker Hill, and her great-grandfather 
 (also John Hulet) built the first Metho- 
 dist church in Berkshire county, if not in 
 the state of Massachusetts. When Mrs. 
 Walker was six years of age her parents 
 removed to Berea, O., where she attended 
 the Baldwin University. At an early age 
 she united with the Methodist Church, to 
 which her family belonged, and with which 
 she has been prominently identified ever 
 since. She early showed marked literary 
 ability, and it was her girlhood ambition 
 
to write a book. During her school-days 
 she was a reguhir contributor to several 
 periodicals. On Dec. 19, 1863, she was 
 married to Thomas B. Walker, her school- 
 mate and companion since their sixteenth 
 year. They took up a permanent resi- 
 dence in iMinneapolis, Minn., where during 
 the first twelve years of their married life 
 she devoted herself exclusively to her home 
 and family cares, her family consisting of 
 six sons and two daughters, while her hus- 
 band laid the foundation of his later busi- 
 ness success. Ever since her marriage 
 ]\lrs. Walker has been actively associated 
 with most of the leading charities of Min- 
 neapolis, many of which she has been in- 
 strumental in organizing and maintaining 
 with money and hard work. Outside her 
 innnediate work in the Methodist Church 
 she was a charter member of the "Sister- 
 hood of Betliany," an organization for 
 the reformation of erring women. Of this 
 association she was twenty-three years 
 secretary, and since that to the present 
 time (1915) president. The home cares 
 for an average of 150 women and children 
 throughout the year. The Northwestern 
 
Hospital for Women and Children was or- 
 ganized by her in 1882, and she has been 
 its president continuously to the present 
 time. It is under the sole management of 
 women directors and has a training school 
 for nurses, with women physicians. It 
 owns two of the finest hospital buildings 
 in tlie Northwest, with accommodations 
 for one hundred patients and a nurses' 
 home in which are housed the forty nurses 
 now in the school and capacity for twenty 
 more. Mrs. Walker brought together from 
 the four leading Christian organizations 
 of the city, the Woman's Christian Asso- 
 ciation, the Sisterhood of Bethany and the 
 two branches of the Woman's Christian 
 Temperance Union, a joint committee who 
 induced the police commissioners of Mm- 
 neapolis to create the position of police 
 matron and to allow this committee the 
 nomination of the incumbent by the pay- 
 ment of half her salary. She had visited 
 nnd investigated the workings of matrons, 
 or the want of matrons, in Boston, New 
 York, Washington, Pittsburgh, Philadel- 
 phia, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Chicago and 
 ]\Iilwaukee, writing extensively upon the 
 
subject. She was one of the first to take 
 up the work of the Woman's Christian 
 Temperance Union. When that organiza- 
 tion took up the political issue, however, 
 she was for many years shut out from the 
 work. Upon the division of the union she 
 joined the Non-partisan Woman's Chris- 
 tian Temperance Union and resumed her 
 active part in temperance work, becoming 
 vice-president and state president of the 
 non-partisan organization, in each of 
 which capacities her genius finds full pla}^ 
 She personally compiled valuable statis- 
 g tics on the subject, and at the world's 
 temperance conference in Chicago, in 
 1893, she delivered a lecture on the Keeley 
 cure for inebriates. For seven years 
 (1892-99) she was president of the Wo- 
 man's Council, a delegate representative 
 association of all branches of woman's 
 work in Minneapolis. To her capable 
 leadership Mas unquestionably due the as- 
 tonishing growth and prosperity of this 
 body, which finally became merged in the 
 Federation of Clubs. Seventy associations 
 were represented in this council, covering 
 all departments of thought, study and 
 
work in the fields of education, philan- 
 thropy, reform, medicine, art, music, the 
 church, literature, history and science. 
 The Newsboys' Home is another charity 
 to which Mrs. Walker's active influence 
 has been lent ; the Kindergarten Associa- 
 tion has had her interest and support and 
 also the Children's Home, which is an out- 
 growth of Bethany Home. Mrs. Walker 
 is equally active in her private charities. 
 So much of her time is now required in the 
 giving of advice and help to the unfortu- 
 nate that she has been obliged to institute 
 regular office hours and to employ a sten- 
 ographer to carry on her correspondence. 
 In all her work she enjoys the loving and 
 admiring support of her devoted husband, 
 whose example as well as counsel has been 
 such an inspiration in all her work. She 
 is also vice-president of the Minneapolis 
 Young Women's Christian Association. 
 Her lectures, written for the Nurses' 
 Training School, Christian Endeavor So- 
 ciety and temperance work, have been pub- 
 lished and very widely copied and quoted. 
 Mrs. Walker enjoys a national fame as a 
 writer on social and economic subjects; is 
 
a regular contributor to the "Trained 
 Nurses' Magazine" of New York and to 
 the "Temperance Tribune," of which she 
 is chairman of the publication committee. 
 Through all her active life, however, Mrs. 
 Walker's home duties were always fore- 
 most. She has refused to give her time 
 to society ; her evenings are devoted to her 
 family, yet among the women of the city 
 of Minneapolis there is probably no other 
 one so widely beloved and respected. 
 Warm-hearted, sympathetic, earnest and 
 untiring in her consideration of others, she 
 has contributed more to the welfare, com- 
 fort and support of the people of Minne- 
 apolis than any other woman, and in all 
 lier good works she has the full support 
 and co-operation of her husband. 
 
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