W. Harrison Walker

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Husband W. Harrison Walker ^{1 2}

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           Born: 30 Aug 1874 - near Salona, Clinton Co, PA 1 2
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         Father: Samuel E. Walker (1832-      ) 3 4
         Mother: Amanda E. Brungart (1841-1886) 1

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General Notes: Husband - W. Harrison Walker

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Born and reared on a farm, his early education was received in the township schools. At the age of fifteen he was admitted to Class '94 of the Susquehanna University at Selin's Grove, Snyder County, Pennsylvania, but was only in attendance at that institution for several terms. Then he went to Lock Haven and entered the Central State Normal School and pursued special studies for preparation for the legal profession. While at the latter institution he read law during his vacation, in the offices of T. M. Stevenson, Esq., of Lock Haven.
In the autumn of 1894 Mr. Walker entered the Dickinson School of Law, at Carlisle, Pennsylvania, and also registered as a law student in the law offices of ex-Judge W. F. Sadler, of the same city, which gentleman manifested a great interest in Mr. Walker and his work. After two years of faithful study in the law department, together with the office work entrusted to him by his preceptor, Judge Sadler, he was graduated from the Dickinson School of Law, June 8, 1896, receiving the degree of LL. B., ranking very high in his class.
Mr. Walker was a member of the Clionian Literary Society, and also of the Henry Clay Debating Club, of the Susquehanna University; of the Shakespeare Literary Society, of the Central State Normal School; and of the Dickinson Law Society and Moot Court Club, of the Dickinson School of Law, also of the Dickinson College Orchestra & Glee Club. He was the editor and business manager of "The Shakespearean," a paper published at Lock Haven, by the Shakespeare Society in 1893. He was also a member of the Dickinson Chapter of the Delta Chi Legal Fraternity, an organization exclusively for law students and lawyers.
Politically, Mr. Walker was a Democrat. He took an active part in the campaign of 1896, and was considered one of the best young speakers in the field. He is a member of the Bellefonte Lodge of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and also of the Bellefonte Lodge of the Knights of the Golden Eagle.
He was admitted to the Cumberland County Bar at Carlisle, at the age of twenty-one, and to the Centre County Bar at Bellefonte, on the 20th day of July, 1896. On August 1, 1896, he joined in partnership, for the practice of his profession, with David F. Fortney, Esq., one of the leading members of the Bar, as well as one of the greatest educational leaders in the State, under the firm name of "Fortney & Walker."

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

2 Editor, Commemorative Biographical Record of Central Pennsylvania, Including the Counties of Centre, Clearfield, Jefferson and Clarion. (Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., 1898), Pg 120.

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

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