Samuel E. Walker and Mary C. Best

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Husband Samuel E. Walker ^{1 2}

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           Born: 5 Nov 1832 - Miles Twp, Centre Co, PA 2
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         Father: Daniel Walker (1807-1887) 3
         Mother: Hannah Erhard (1807-1884) 1

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   Other Spouse: Amanda E. Brungart (1841-1886) 4 - 27 Dec 1860 4

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Wife Mary C. Best ⁴

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         Father: John Best (      -      ) 4
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General Notes: Husband - Samuel E. Walker

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He was taught at an early age to make himself useful on the farm and in his father's grist and saw mill. He first attended the Brungart school in his district, but owing to the need of his help at home, his studies were pursued irregularly. Later he attended the Aaronsburg Academy, and before he reached the age of eighteen was qualified to teach. Young as he was he taught successfully for five consecutive winters, his first experience being at the Heckman School in Sugar Valley, where he received a salary of $18 per month. For three winters he was employed in his own district, a sure evidence of success in the difficult calling. His summers were spent on the farm, and after attaining his majority, his father paid him at the rate of $8 per month during the busy season. Desiring to see something of the great West before locating permanently, he went to Illinois for one summer, but concluded that there was no place like his native state, and in the spring of 1860 he formed a partnership with a brother-in-law, Reuben Snook, and moved to Clinton County, Pennsylvania, to engage in farming.
He then made his home on a farm two miles east of Salona, which he rented from his father, and on April 2, 1868, purchased the place, that being the first farming land that he ever owned. It contained 200 acres, for which he paid over $11,000. In the spring of 1888 Mr. Walker moved to Salona, and in the spring of 1894 settled at a handsome residence near the Salona depot.
He valued greatly the advantages of an education, and gave his children excellent opportunities for learning.
Politically, Mr. Walker was a stanch Democrat, and served as township assessor and auditor several times, and for three years, 1894, '95, '96, he held the office of auditor of Clinton County. He was a member of the Lutheran Church, in which he was a deacon and elder, and served as trustee and treasurer.

Mr. Walker was the owner of four large, valuable farms in Lamar township, Clinton County, representing an outlay of more than $45,000, and, although he later contented himself with a general oversight, he was for many years an active worker in the practical details of their management. In addition to his extensive real-estate holdings, as well as valuable real estate in the state of Nebraska, he had money invested in mortgages and various enterprises. He was the holder of considerable stock in the Lock Haven Trust & Safe Deposit Company's Bank, of which he was a charter member, and for several years served as one of its directors. He was also a stock-holder in the First National Bank of Lock Haven. He was a stockholder in the Salona Creamery Company, and for several years held the office of treasurer of the same. His chief interests, however, were agricultural, and he was a prominent member of the Lamar Grange.

1 —, Commemorative Biographical Record of Central Pennsylvania, Including the Counties of Centre, Clearfield, Jefferson and Clarion. (Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., 1898), Pg 307.

2 —, Commemorative Biographical Record of Central Pennsylvania, Including the Counties of Centre, Clinton, Union and Snyder. (Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., 1898), Pg 595.

3 —, Commemorative Biographical Record of Central Pennsylvania, Including the Counties of Centre, Clearfield, Jefferson and Clarion. (Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., 1898), Pg 296, 307.

4 —, Commemorative Biographical Record of Central Pennsylvania, Including the Counties of Centre, Clinton, Union and Snyder. (Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., 1898), Pg 596.