Walker
Walker names 10 different subjects across the 6 encyclopedias on this shelf. Each is set out below.
Walker ROBERT JAMES, an American financier
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
ROBERT JAMES, an American financier; born In Northumberland, Pa., July 23, 1801; was graduated at the University of Pennsylvania in 1819; practiced law in Pittsburgh, Pa., in 1822-1826, and in the latter year removed to Mississippi. There he entered politics and was elected to the United States Senate in 1836 and 1840. While in the Senate he opposed the distribution of the surplus revenue, advocating, instead, its application to public defenses; introduced the celebrated "Homestead" bill; sustained the treaty for the suppression of the slave trade; and drafted and supported the resolution recognizing the independence of Texas. On the accession of James K. Polk to the presidency in 1845, he was appointed Secretary of the Treasury, and continued in that office till March, 1849, during which period he prepared and carried through the tariff bill of 1846, various loan bills, the warehousing system, the Mexican tariff, and a bill to organize the Department of the Interior. Subsequently he was governor of Kansas, in which office he defeated the attempt to force corrupt measures on the territory; was actively clergy "imprisoned, banished, and sent occupied in the support of the National Government prior to the Civil War, advocating the immediate re-enforcement of Southern fortifications and the maintenance of the Union by force; and in 1863 was sent as financial agent of the United States to Europe, where he negotiated the sale of $250,000,000 in 5-20 bonds. On his return in 1864 he applied himself to the practice of law and to literary work, writing extensively for the "Continental Review." He died in Washington, D. C., Nov. 11, 1869.
Walker JOHN GRIMES, an American naval officer
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
JOHN GRIMES, an American naval officer; born in Hillsboro, N. H., March 20, 1835; was graduated at the United States Naval Academy in 1856; promoted lieutenant in 1858; and at the outbreak of the Civil War in 1861 was assigned to duty in the blockading service. During the war he participated in the capture of New Orleans and the operations against Vicksburg in the summer of 1862; commanded the "Baron de Kalb" of the Mississippi squadron in several engagements; had charge of a naval battery at the siege of Vicksburg; was executive officer on board a gunboat at the capture of Wilmington N. C., and took an active part in several other engagements. He was secretary of the Lighthouse Board in 1873-1878; chief of the Bureau of Navigation in 1881-1889; promoted commodore in 1889; 1889; commanded the "Squadron of Evolution" in 1889- 1894; and in the latter year, on his promotion to rear-admiral, was assigned to the Pacific station; being particularly charged with the maintenance of peace and good order in the Hawaiian Islands. He was chairman of the Lighthouse Board in 1895-1896; head of the deep water harbor commission for Southern California; and president of the Isthmian Canal Commission in 1899. He died Sept. 16, 1907.
Walker SEARS COOK, an American astronomer
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
SEARS COOK, an American astronomer; born in Wilmington, Mass., March 28, 1805; was graduated at Harvard College in 1825; taught school for several years near Boston and in Philadelphia, and actively engaged in scientific work. He prepared a set of parallactic tables for the latitude of Philadelphia, which greatly facilitated the process of computing the phases of an occultation in 1834; planned the organization of an observatory in connection with the Philadelphia Philadelphia high h school in 1837; published a valuable paper on the periodical meteors of August and November, 1841; and in 1845 received an appointment in the Washington Observatory, where on Feb. 2, 1847, four months after the discovery of the planet Neptune, he indentified that planet with a star observed by Lalande in May, 1795. From 1847 till his death he had charge of the longitude computations of the United States Coast Survey, and in this connection he developed with Professor Bache the method of determining differences of longitude by telegraph, which was first put into successful operation in 1849. He died in Cincinnati, O., Jan. 30, 1853.
Walker WILLIAM, an American adventurer
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
WILLIAM, an American adventurer; born in Nashville, Tenn., May 8, 1824, studied law in Nashville, and medicine in Germany. In July, 1853, he organized an expedition against Sonora, Mexico, but was compelled to surrender to the United States commander at San Diego, Cal. In 1855, at the instigation of American speculators, he went to Nicaragua with 62 followers, and in conjunction with a small native force defeated a Nicaraguan army of 540 men at Rivas. He then took the city of Grenada, and through a treaty with Gen. Ponciano Corral, his antagonist, he was made Secretary of War and Commander-in- Chief. He established a government, but was driven from power, and surrendered to the United States authorities in May, 1857. In June, 1860, he invested Honduras; was captured by the commander of the British man-of-war "Icarus"; and was delivered to the Honduras authorities. After being tried by courtmartial he was shot in Trujillo, Honduras Sept. 12, 1860. He was the author of "The War in Nicaragua" (1860).
Walker FRANCIS AMASA, an American educator
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
FRANCIS AMASA, an American educator; born in Boston, Mass., July 2, 1840; was graduated at Amherst College in 1860; served throughout the Civil War, distinguishing himself on various fields. On Aug. 25, 1864, he was captured at Ream's Station and for a short time was detained in Libby prison; was promoted colonel Dec. 23, 1862, and received the brevet of Brigadier-General of volunteers March 13, 1865; was superintendent of the 9th census in 1870-1879; became Professor of Political Economy in the Sheffield Scientific School of Yale University in 1873; and in the latter year accepted the presidency of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he served till his death, Jan. 5, 1897. He was the author of "The Indian Question" (1876); "Money" (1878); "Money, Trade, and Industry" (1879); "Political Economy" (1883); "History of the Second Army Corps" (1886); etc.
Walker JOHN, an English author
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
JOHN, an English author; born in Devonshire; was educated at Exeter College, Oxford, graduating M. A. in 1699. He became rector of St. Maryarythe-More, Exeter. His famous work is entitled "An Account of the Sufferings of the Clergy who were Sequestered in the Grand Rebellion" (folio, 1714). The work itself was called forth by Calamy's "Abridgement of the Life of Mr. Baxter," nearly half of which is the famous "Particular Account of the Ministers who were Ejected by the Act of Uni formity," and Calamy himself replied to it "The Church and Dissenters compared as to Persecution" (1719). With ers, a dissenting minister of Exeter, also made a reply, and still more Neal in his "History of the Puritans." Walker estimated at over 7,000 the number of a-starving." He died in Exeter, about 1730.
Walker AMASA, an American political economist
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
AMASA, an American political economist; born in Woodstock, Conn., May 4, 1799. He was for many years engaged in commercial pursuits; from 1842 to 1848 lectured on political economy at Oberlin College; in 1848 became a member of the Massachusetts Assembly, and in 1849 of the Senate; in 1851-1852 was Secretary of State, and in 1862-1863 was Republican member of Congress from Massachusetts. From 1858 to 1869 he was lecturer on political economy at Amherst College. He was one of the editors of the "Transactions" of the Agricultural Society of Massachusetts (7 vols. 1848-1854). He wrote: "Nature and Uses of Money and Mixed Currency" (1857); and "The Science of Wealth" (1866). He died in North Brookfield, Mass., Oct. 29, 1875.
Walker FREDERICK, an English painter
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
FREDERICK, an English painter; born in London, May 24, 1840; studied at the Royal Academy (1858), and designed for illustrations for the "Cornhill Magazine" and "Once a Week" (1860-1864). Some of these drawings he reproduced in water-color, in which medium he produced a number of exquisite pictures. In 1863 he exhibited his first oil painting, "The Lost Path," at the Royal Academy, and was made an associate R. A. in 1871. His best works in oil are "The Bathers," and "By the Plough." He died in St. Fillans, Scotland, June 4, 1875.
Walker WILLISTON, an Ameri can clergyman
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
WILLISTON, an Ameri can clergyman; born in Portland, Me., July 1, 1860; was graduated at Amherst College in 1883 and at Hartford Theological Seminary in 1886; was Professor of Church History in Hartford Theological Seminary in 1889-1901. In the latter year he became professor or of ecclesiastical history at Yale. His works include: "On the Increase of Royal Power under Philip Augustus"; "History of the Congregational Church in the United States"; "The Creeds and Platforms of Congregationalism" (1893); "The Reformation" (1900); "Ten New England Leaders" (1901); "History of the Christian Church (1918).
Walker WILLIAM SIDNEY, a British poet
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
WILLIAM SIDNEY, a British poet; born in Pembroke, Wales, Dec. 4, 1795. He was a fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge (1820-1829), becoming blind during that time. Besides translating a "Collection of Latin Poets" (new ed. 1854)), he wrote "Gustavus Vasa" (1813), an epic poem; "Shakespeare's Versification" (3d ed. 1859); "Critical Examination of the Text of Shakespeare" (3 vols. 1859). "Poetical Remains," with a memoir, appeared in 1852. He died in London, Oct. 15, 1846.
What Has Changed in the Last Century
Of the Walkers Collier's assembled in 1921, the reputations have sorted themselves out unevenly. William Walker, the Nashville filibuster shot at Trujillo in 1860, has grown rather than faded: he is now a standard case study in United States intervention in Central America, and Nicaraguans still mark his defeat as national history rather than adventure. Francis Amasa Walker, described here simply as an educator, is remembered less for running Amherst-to-MIT classrooms than as the economist who attacked the wage-fund doctrine and superintended the censuses of 1870 and 1880 - and modern historians dwell hard on his advocacy of immigration restriction, which Collier's passes over. Robert J. Walker survives in the phrase Walker Tariff of 1846; Sears Cook Walker's 1847 discovery that Lalande had unknowingly recorded Neptune in 1795 is still cited, since such prediscovery sightings pinned down the planet's orbit, and John Grimes Walker's Isthmian Canal Commission work bore fruit in a canal at Panama, not the Nicaragua route his commission first favoured.
Written for this edition, 2026.