My Genealogy Hound

GEORGE WALKER, farmer, post office Walker’s Mills, was born in Franklin county Pa., in 1819. This family has been connected with Allegheny county since 1836. James Walker came to Collier township in 1838 and settled on his wife’s property, now owned by the subject of this sketch. He married Mary, daughter of James and Mary (Walker) Stewart. Robert Walker, grandfather of our subject, by occupation a farmer and fuller, came from Ireland about 1788, and settled in Franklin county, where he died. He married Jane Miller, also of Ireland, by whom he had three sons and five daughters. James, the oldest son, was eight years of age when his parents came to America, and died in 1850, aged seventy years; his wife died in 1845, aged sixty-five years. James was a farmer, mechanic and fuller. George Walker, whose name heads this memoir, came to Pittsburgh in 1836, and served an apprenticeship of four years at the hatter’s trade, which he never followed, however. He came to his present farm in 1842, and has since resided there. Dec. 15, 1852, he married Margaret Stephenson, daughter of Johnston and Catherine Stephenson, and six children were born to them, two of whom are now living: William S. and Margaret Jane. Mr. Walker is assisted in his work on the farm by his son. He has been school director eight years, and is now auditor of the township. He is a member of the Presbyterian Church; politically a republican.