Dr. Robert Latshaw Walker and Emma Arndt Gleim

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Husband Dr. Robert Latshaw Walker ¹

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           Born: 26 Jul 1838 - Pittsburgh, Allegheny Co, PA 1
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         Father: John Walker (1812-1859) 2
         Mother: Elizabeth Matthews (1820-1853) 1

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       Marriage: 12 Feb 1861 - Lebanon, Lebanon Co, PA 3

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Wife Emma Arndt Gleim ³

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         Father: George Gleim (1808-Aft 1883) 4 5
         Mother: Susanna Arndt (1811-1848) 5

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Children

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1 M William Walker ³

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         Spouse: Louise Eddy Gleim (      -      ) 3

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2 F Elizabeth Walker ³

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3 M Robert L. Walker, Jr. ³

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         Spouse: Mary Heisey (      -Bef 1915) 3

         Spouse: Elvira Jones (      -      ) 3

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General Notes: Husband - Dr. Robert Latshaw Walker

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He attended a private school conducted by Professor Venter, completing his classical studies in the Universities of Pittsburgh and Pennsylvania. Making his decision for the medical profession, he studied under the preceptorship of the late Dr. S. Weir Mitchell, the famous physician and celebrated author of Philadelphia, and also with Professor Francis Guernsey Smith, professor of physiology in the University of Pennsylvania, being for a time the latter's assistant. During the Civil War it was Dr. Walker worked under Dr. S. Weir Mitchell in the Philadelphia Hospitals. When peace once more reigned and after graduation he visited friends in Mansfield (later Carnegie), Pennsylvania. Being at that time quite detached from any regular practice or from binding obligations, he was persuaded to remain in that place, which thereafter was the scene of his professional activity, his medical service in Allegheny County covering a period of forty-eight years. He was surgeon for the Pennsylvania Lines West from 1868 to the early 1900s, serving in the same capacity the Pennsylvania Smelting Works, the local traction company, and at different times various other corporations and companies, having been for more than a quarter of a century examiner for the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company. His medical associations were those of the county and state, and he was censor of the former society. One of Dr. Walker's best enjoyed recreations was the study of birds and their habits, a subject upon which he was a local authority, holding membership in the American Ornithological Society. It was owing to the influence of Prof. Spencer F. Baird, of the Smithsonian Institute of Washington, D. C., that Dr. Walker became interested in ornithology, and he collected for Dr. Baird until his death. Dr. Walker's library of ornithological works rivaled that devoted to medical subjects, and the doctor always enjoyed nothing better than a ramble through the neighboring fields, equipped with a field glass, noting the earliest arrivals of the spring or the last lingerers of the autumn, perhaps observing a species hitherto unknown to that locality. His fraternal order was the Masonic, and he held membership in Centennial Lodge until Lafayette Lodge, No. 652, was organized, of which he was a charter member. He also belonged to Cyrus Chapter No. 280, Royal Arch Masons, and was a member of the National Geographical Society.

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General Notes: Wife - Emma Arndt Gleim

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She was educated by two years' attendance at the Wesleyan Female College, and later at Lafayette College, of Washington, D. C., whence she was graduated in 1860. The year after leaving college she was married and lived in Carnegie, Pennsylvania, during Dr. Walker's residence in that place. She was a lady of gentle culture, was her husband's hearty sympathizer and constant supporter in the trials of his professional life, the companion and sharer of all of his fortunes, both adverse and favorable.

1 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Western Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1915), Pg 244.

2 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Western Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1915), Pg 243.

3 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Western Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1915), Pg 245.

4 William Henry Egle, History of the County of Lebanon in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: Everts & Peck, 1883), Pg 240, 306.

5 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Western Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1915), Pg 246.