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James Harvey Walker

Male 1814 - 1859  (45 years)


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  • Name James Harvey Walker 
    Birth 29 May 1814  East Salem, Fayette, PA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Male 
    Census 27 Oct 1850  Pymatuning, Mercer, PA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    age 30, born PA, carpenter, living next to parents 
    Death 14 Aug 1859  Clarksville, Mercer, PA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Census 1860  Clarksville, Mercer, PA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    age 69, born PA, Carpenter, died Aug of Consumption 
    Person ID I200  Family Tree | 12 Generation Ancestor Chart
    Last Modified 27 Apr 2013 

    Father George Walker,   b. 1791, Ireland Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1853, Clarksville, Mercer, PA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 62 years) 
    Mother Elizabeth,   b. 1792, Pennsylvania Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Family ID F107  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Martha McDowell,   b. 1 May 1821, Ireland Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 28 Jan 1895, New Brighton, Beaver, PA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 73 years) 
    Marriage 11 Jan 1842 
    Children 
    +1. Julia Ann Walker,   b. 28 Jul 1843, Clarksville, Mercer, PA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 18 Jan 1882, Hartford, Trumbull, OH Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 38 years)
     2. Catherine Elizabeth Walker,   b. 1 Feb 1845, Clarksville, Mercer, PA Find all individuals with events at this location
    +3. James Leander Walker,   b. 9 Sep 1848, Clarksville, Mercer, PA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 24 Oct 1927, New Brighton, Beaver, PA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 79 years)
    +4. Mary Ellen “Nellie” Walker,   b. 1851, Clarksville, Mercer, PA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 8 Feb 1897, Richburg, Allegany, NY Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 46 years)
    +5. William George Walker,   b. 19 Mar 1855, Clarksville, Mercer, PA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 25 Mar 1934, New Brighton, Beaver, PA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 79 years)
    +6. Frank H. Walker,   b. 23 Oct 1858, Clarksville, Mercer, PA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 3 Sep 1934, Glendale, Los Angeles, CA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 75 years)
    Family ID F49  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 26 Apr 2013 

  • Notes 
    • from "Genealogy and Personal History of Beaver County, Pennsylvania" by John W Jordan, 1914
      James Leander Walker, a prominent citizen of New Brighton, Pennsylvania, is descended on his father's side of the house from an old Pennsylvania family, while his mother was a native of Ireland. He was born in 1848, at Clarksville, Mercer county, Pennsylvania, a son of Harvey and Martha (McDowell) Walker. His paternal grandparents were George and Sarah Walker, both probably natives of Mercer county, though of Irish descent. George Walker was a cabinetmaker, and died in Clarksville when our subject was about five years of age. Harvey Walker, the father of our subject, was the eldest of his four children, and was born in Mercer county and educated in the early schools of the region. His education completed, he apprenticed himself to his father and of him learned the trade of cabinet making, which he afterwards followed through life at Clarksville. He was a strongly religious man and an active member of the Methodist Episcopal church, and of the Sons of Temperance, and an extremely ardent partisan of the cause for which that organization stood. He was married to Martha McDowell, a daughter of parents who were immigrants to the United States and settled in the southern part of New York state. Miss McDowell herself came to this country when only three years of age, with an aunt. To Mr. and Mrs. Walker were born six children : Julia ; Kathrine ; James Leander, our subject; Mary Ellen; William G. and Francis H. Walker.