Husband Joseph C. Walker, Esq. 1
Born: 4 Apr 1832 - Sadsbury Twp, Lancaster Co, PA 1
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Father: Asahel Walker, Esq. (1788-1856) 1
Mother: Sarah Coates (Abt 1791-1869) 1
Marriage: 1856 1
Wife Lucy Hiester Ellmaker 1 2
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Father: Enfield Esaias Ellmaker ( - ) 3 4
Mother: Sarah C. Watson (1802-1882) 3 4
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1 M E. Enfield Walker 1
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2 F Sallie Watson Walker 1
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3 F Susan Pusey Walker 1
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4 M Joseph Coates Walker 1
Born: Abt 1866
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5 M James Chester Walker 1
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General Notes: Husband - Joseph C. Walker, Esq.
He was born in Sadsbury township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, spending the days of his boyhood until his majority with his parents, becoming thoroughly schooled in the science of agriculture. In 1853, he embarked in the mercantile pursuit with Messrs. Baker and Hopkins at Gap, Pennsylvania. (Mr. Baker being at the time superintendent of the old Philadelphia and Columbia Railroad). In 1855 he removed to Christiana, Pennsylvania, remained until 1857, then returned to the Gap, entered into the general transportation, grain, coal, and lumber business, where he then engaged in the same occupation for a term of over twenty-seven years. During this period he served in the positions of postmaster, revenue collector, justice of the peace, etc., and president of the Gap National Bank. He owned the mansion, residence, and farm occupied by his grandfather, Asahel Walker the first, Asahel Walker the second, and Asahel Walker the third successively, the ancient stone mansion thereon being a house of historic record in the time of the Revolutionary war.
Being of Quaker parentage, he was raised under that faith, but afterwards became allied with the Presbyterian Church. He was of the old Anti-Slavery-Whig type in politics, leaving the party of his ancestry, the Democratic, at as early a date as the campaign of Governor Ritner (1838), and long remembered being derided by some of his Republican associates as late as 1854 for his anti-slavery doctrines.
In the year 1880 he associated with him his son, E. Enfield Walker, trading as Joseph C. Walker & Son, they being the oldest house in their line of business on the Pennsylvania Railroad between Harrisburg and Philadelphia.