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Creed T. Walker, cashier and manager of the Bank of Little Rock, and a well-known citizen of that place, was born in Desha County, Ark. His maternal grandfather, Creed Taylor, was a native of Kentucky, who came to Arkansas when it was known as a part of the Louisiana territory, and located in what is now Conway County, on June 8, 1817. He subsequently removed to Jefferson County, on June 8, 1887, having resided in the State of Arkansas for a period of seventy years, being now at the age of eighty-eight years. For a long period he was in charge of the United States land office, having headquarters at Helena and Pine Bluff. During his residence here he surveyed over a large portion of the State, and was a man of energy and daring enterprise, being well known throughout Arkansas. His wife was a Miss Vaugine before her marriage, and a granddaughter of Capt. Don. Joseph Valliere, a commander of French troops under Baron de Carondelet, once Governor of the Territory of Louisiana. Creed Taylor was twice married; his first wife bore him three children, all daughters, of whom Eulalie Vaugine is the mother of Creed T. Walker, by her marriage with Robert W. Walker in 1841. Robert W. Walker was a native of Virginia, but removed at an early day to Tennessee with his parents, and was reared in Nashville. He afterward settled in Jefferson County, Ark., and had charge of the United States land office at Pine Bluff, under Creed Taylor, residing there until his death, in 1868. Creed T. Walker was reared and lived in Jefferson County, Ark., until fifteen years of age. He then attended school at Nashville, Tenn., remaining there until the Civil War commenced, when he joined Pat Cleburne’s old regiment, the Fifteenth Confederate States Regiment from Arkansas, but his career in the army was cut short, by being captured at the battle of Perryville and kept a prisoner until the war ended. On being released he went to Kentucky, and at Harrodsburg obtained a position in the Commercial Bank of Kentucky, remaining there for one year. He subsequently returned to Arkansas, and engaged in steam-boating on the Arkansas and Mississippi Rivers, remaining in that business four years, and in January, 1870, entered the banking house of S. H. Tucker, in Little Rock. In September, 1873, he left that firm to accept a position with George Brodie & Son, bankers, and for one year and a half he remained with them, but again was offered a position with another bank, the German Savings, which was a successor of the German National Bank, and continued with this house for fourteen years. When the scheme of opening a new bank was broached, Mr. Walker was solicited to take charge of it, and commenced as its cashier and manager, on February 25, 1889. He is also director and treasurer of the Little Rock Trust Company, and a stockholder and director of the Arkansas Granite Company. Mr. Walker is also treasurer of the Ladies’ Building Association, as well as of the Royal Arcanum and Knights of Honor. In religious faith he is a member and trustee of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South. On January 4, 1866, he was married to Miss Lizzie D. Cox, of Harrodsburg, Ky., by whom he has had six children, four of whom are living: Robert D., Mary E., Creed and Bessie. Mrs. Walker and her two eldest children also attend the same church.