"Walker, John (4), an English clergyman, was born in 1770. He was educated at Oxfonl, where he became fellow of New College ; and was vicar of Ilorne- church, Essex, from 1819 until his death, which occur- red April 5, 1831. Among his published works are, Curia Oxoniensis: — Selection of Curious Articles fjom the Gentleman s Magazine (1809, 3 vols.). He was also one of the original proprietors of the Oxford JJerald, and for several years an assistant editor.
"Walker, John (5), a minister of the Associate Church, was born in Washington County, I'a., in 1787. He was educated at .Jefferson College, in liis native county, studied theology with Dr. Anderson, and was licensed in 1809. He first settled in Mercer County, Pa., where he remained three years preaching to va- rious congregations, and then removed to Harrison County, ()., where he continued to labor until his death, in 1845. See Sprague, .4 «««/a' cf the Amer. Pulpit (As- sociate), p. 95 sq.
"Walker, John (0), a Methodist Episcopal minis- ter, was born in Hampshire County, Va., Feb. 28, 1797. He removed with his parents to Ohio in 1814; was converted soon after; joined the Ohio Conference in 1821 ; and served with great zeal and usefulness on the following circuits: Knox and Huron in 1822, West Wheeling in 1823, Burlington in 1824, and in 1825 Salt Creek Circuit, where he died of pulmonary con- sumption. See Minutes of Annual Conferences, 1^21 , p. 540.
Walker, John (7), a INIethodist Episcopal minis- ter, was born in Burlington County, N. J. He was con- verted at j\Iount Holly in his nineteenth year, received on trial in the Philadelphia Conference in 1802, and ap- pointed to the Trenton Circuit, and subsetpiently to the following places: Flanders, Salem, Chester, Bristol, Philadelphia, Lancaster, Smyrna, Dauphin, Gloucester, Burlington, New Mills, Freehold, Bargaintown, Cam- den, and Swedesborough. In 1835 he took a super- numerary relation, and spent the remainder of his life in Clarksi)orough, where he died April 5, 1849, in the eighty-fifth year of his age. He was a most successful preacher in winning souls. As a man, he was univer- sally beloved; as a Christian, his piety was deep and genuine. See Minutes of Annual Conferences, iv, 320.
"Walker, Joseph (l),an English Congregational minister, was born in 1802. ^Ir. \\'alker was for many years a teacher in the public schools. He graduated
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with high honors at Airedale College, and became pas- tor of Northallerton Independent Cliuroh. After years of patient labor, he removed to Hexham, and in 1855 settled at Derby. INIr. \Valker was well versed in the Hebrew and Greek Scriptures, and possessed special faculties of imparting his knowledge to others. He died Dec. 2, 18G7. See (Lond.) Cong. Year-book, 1869, p. 293.
"Walker, Joseph (2), an Englisli Wesleyan min- ister, was converted at the age of fourteen under the ministry of John Crosby. In 1811 he was accepted as a candidate for the ministry. Owing to an aftecrion of the brain, he was temporarily laiil aside at Dover from 1834 to 183G. He became a supernumerary at Luton, Bedfordshire, in 1845, and died April 14, 1857, in the sixty-ninth year of his age. His entire course was one of great usefulness. See Weslei/an Minules, 1857.
Walker, Joseph E., a Metliodist Episcopal min- ister, was born at Wilton, Me., in 1847. He was con- verted at the age of twenty; began preaching in 1809; supplied the Lisbon charge in 1870; and in 1871 joined the Maine Conference, and was appointed to Maple Cir- cuit, where he labored two years, and then returned to Wilton, where he died of consumption, Aug. 26, 1875. Mr. Walker was studious, earnest, and very promising. See Miinifes of Aiuuml Conferences, 1876, p. 87.
Walker, Josiah H., an P^nglish Wesleyan min- ister, was born in London in 1776. He was piously trained and early united with the Church. In 1804 he entered the sacred office, ami for thirty-five years dis- charged its duties with unwavering fidelity and zeal. In 1835, his health f;iiling, he settled in Manchester. He died July 26, 1843.
"Walker, Levi (1), a prominent layman of the Baptist denomination, was born in Rutland, Vt., May 22, 1777, and is said to have been the first white male born in that town. He removed to Whiting. Vt., with his father's family in 1784, and was one of six brothers, all farmers in that town, their farms adjoining and form- ing one of the best tracts of land in Addison County, em- bracing about twelve hundred acres on the Otter Creek. He was appointed, under president jNIadison's adminis- tration, assessor for the towns of Whiting and Leicester, and for several years was the first constable of Whiting, and for a time, also, a selectman of the town. Like his brother, James Otis, he was proverbial for his generos- ity and his public spirit. " If there was a house of wor- ship to be built, a minister of religion to be obtained and supported, any benevolent object to be aided, or public improvement to be accomplished, his purse and influence were generously offered, and to these was ow- ing the success of many a benevolent and useful enter- prise." In his will he bequeathed to the town of Whit- ing twenty acres of land at Wliiting Centre, one acre to be used for a cemetery, and the yearly income of ten acres to be appropriated to the support of common- schools, and the income of the remaining nine acres to maintain the preaching of the Gospel. He died July 27, 1822. LTpon his grave-stone is this inscription, " The memory of his public spirit will outlast tills monument, which marks the humble sp<)t where he lies." See the Walker ^[elnoriul. (J. C. S.)