Rev. Dr. John Walker and Unknown

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Husband Rev. Dr. John Walker ^{1 2}

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           Born: 1787 - Washington Co, PA 3
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   Other Spouse: Rachel Scroggs (      -      ) 2

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Wife Unknown

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General Notes: Husband - Rev. Dr. John Walker

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He was quite a notable preacher in the Associate church. He was graduated from Jefferson Medical College and studied theology under Dr. Anderson, of Service, Pennsylvania. He became a pioneer in the advocacy of total abstinence and was intense in his hostility to slavery. He engaged in an extended public discussion and debate with Alexander Campbell, founder of the Campbellite Baptists or Disciples. The competitors were both of stalwart intellect and of unusual eloquence and their age was hot with the spirit of religious controversy. Rev. Walker removed to Ohio and started a classical school at New Athens, Harrison County, and secured a charter for it as Franklin College. Mr. Walker was always marked by an enthusiasm for the public betterment and by a boundless hospitality, which, together with the loss of his home and books by fire, placed him in straitened circumstances which he endeavored to improve at a time when other duties and alvancing age had placed him out of the way of seeking pastoral service elsewhere than near his home, undertaking the regular practice of medicine for which he had educated himself in accord with a natural bent in his earlier years.

He had eight children with his first wife, and by another marriage there were four daughters.

1 John W. Jordan, LL.D, A Century and a Half of Pittsburg and Her People, Vol. IV (New York: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1908), Pg 138.

2 Rev. James Marcus Welch, Ancestry and Kin of the Cowden and Welch Families (Indiana, PA: 1904), Pg 43.

3 Rev. James Marcus Welch, Ancestry and Kin of the Cowden and Welch Families (Indiana, PA: 1904), Pg 44.