John H. Walker    

JOHN H. WALKER, farmer, P.O. Stony Point, was born in 1845 in East Fallowfield Township, Crawford County, son of James and Mary (McGranathan) Walker, natives of Pennsylvania. His grandfather built the first brick house in the town of Greenville, Penn., but later removed to Minnesota, where he and his wife both died on the same day, of old age. He was ninety-two years old. Our subject was reared on a farm. During the late Rebellion he enlisted September 1864, in the One Hundred and Seventh Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, and served till the close of the war. He was united in marriage on November 9, 1876, with Hattie Weaver, by whom he has two children: Ruby Dell, born in September, 1881, and Mary Angeline, born December, 1883.  Mr. Walker in politics is a Republican.

History of Crawford County, Pennsylvania: containing a history of the county, its townships, towns, villages, schools, churches, industries, etc., portraits of early settlers and prominent men, biographies, history of Pennsylvania, statistical and miscellaneous matter, Chicago: Warner, Beers & Co., 1885, page 993. View image of this page of the book on line at ancestry.com.  Free access  More Crawford County History Books  Search Hundreds of 1880s-1890s Pennsylvania County History Books for biographies and historical information on your ancestors.  View the book page images on line and print them out for your genealogy file!  Free Access to the old history books - plus birth & death records, census images and ALL other records at ancestry.com

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