Woburnites:
The Family of Walker

Captain Richard Walker, the immigrant ancestor, was born in England in 1590. He came to New England in 1630, and settled at Lynn, Massachusetts. He was admitted a freeman, March 5, 1633-34, and was ensign in the Lynn militia company in 1630, later lieutenant and captain. In 1638 he was a member of the Artillery Company of Boston. He was deputy to the general court; was surety for Howes of Mattacheeset in 1638. He removed to Reading, Massachusetts, where he was a proprietor in 1644 and later a town officer. He lent money on mortgages to Sir William Temple in 1660 and canceled the bond in 1670. His son Richard who came over in 1638 in the ship "Elizabeth" deposed in 1676 that he was aged about sixty-five years. In 1630, while Walker was on guard duty, he was attacked by Indians who were frightened away without any deaths, however. Pope says: "He joined in 1639 with William, Robert, and Thomas Talmage, brothers of his wife Jane, in a letter of attorney for the collection of moneys from the overseers of the will of John Talmage of Newton Stacey, in the county of Southampton, husbandman, the brother of their father Thomas Talmage, and from the executors of the will of their brother, Symon Talmage."

Captain Walker married (first) Jane, daughter of Thomas Talmage, of Newton Stacey; (second) Sarah (???). He died May, 1687, and was buried May 16, aged ninety-five years. Administration was granted June 19, 1687, to his widow Sarah, who died December 1, 1695. He had a long, useful and active career. 

Children: Captain Richard, born 1611, in England; Samuel, mentioned below; Tibitha, married, March 11, 1662, Daniel King; Elizabeth, married, March 2, 1665, Ralph King; Shubael; John; Obadiah.

(II) Samuel, son of Captain Richard Walker, was born in England. His age is given as sixty-nine years when he died, November 6, 1684; he deposed April 2, 1666, that he was forty-four years old. He moved from Lynn to Reading, then to Woburn. He was a proprietor of Reading in 1643 with his father and brother Richard. He was admitted to the church at Woburn about 1650 with his wife. He was highway surveyor there in 1662. He was a malster by trade, and was the third man to keep a tavern at Woburn, being licensed for that purpose, April, 1662. His sons, Samuel and Joseph, were administrators of his estate. 

Children: Samuel, mentioned below; Joseph, born March 10, 1645; Hannah, April 11, 1647. died April 28, 1648; Israel, June 28, 1648; Hannah, twin of Israel; John, February 14, 1650; Benjamin, June 4, 1652, died April 26, 1653; Isaac; Ezekiel.

(III) Deacon Samuel (2) Walker, son of Samuel (1) Walker, was born September 23, 1643, at Reading, died at Woburn, January 18, 1704, aged sixty-one years. He was a prominent citizen of Woburn and deacon of the church. He married, September 10, 1662, Sarah Reed, of Woburn. She died November 1, 1681. Children, born at Woburn: Edward, October 12, 1663; John, July 2, 1665; Samuel, mentioned below; Sarah, March 6, 1670; Timothy, June 16, 1672; Isaac, November 1, 1677; Ezekiel, March 5, 1679.

(IV) Deacon Samuel (3) Walker, son of Deacon Samuel (2) Walker, was born in Woburn, January 25, 1667. He married (first) at Woburn, June 1, 1688, Judith Howard, who died there November 14, 1724, aged fifty-seven years. He married (second) Mary (???), who died at Charlestown, Massachusetts, October 23, 1748, aged eighty years. 

Children by first wife, born at Woburn; Sarah, October 15, 1689; Judith, March 16, 1691; Abigail, October 30, 1692; Samuel, mentioned below; Hannah, July 24, 1698; John, January 11, 1700; John, August 1, 1701; Mary, October 12, 1702; Timothy, July 27, 1705; Phebe, September 7, 1707.

(V) Captain Samuel (4) Walker, son of Deacon Samuel (3) Walker, was born at Woburn, September 3, 1694. He settled in Wilmington, formerly part of Woburn. He married Hannah (???), who died May 13, 1788. 

Children, born at Woburn and Wilmington: Hannah, September 22, 1718; Samuel, May 3, 1720, died May 16, 1738; James, April 17, 1722, died May 31, 1738; Abigail, August 31, 1724, died June 27, 1738; Jonathan, April 15, 1726, died May 17, 1738; Nathan, March 17, 1728, died May 18, 1738. Born at Wilmington: Richard, July 1, 1730, died June 21, 1738; Timothy, mentioned below; Judith, February 22, 1734, died May 16, 1738; Edward, September 14, 1737, died June 10, 1738; Abigail, May 27, 1741. 

Of nine children Timothy alone survived the pestilence which swept away eight children in this one family within six weeks.

(VII) Benjamin, son of Major Timothy Walker, was born at Wilmington, Massachusetts, July 3, 1767, died June 26, 1811. He married Susanna Cook. 

Children, born at Wilmington: Benjamin, June 23, 1801; Timothy, mentioned below; Sears Cook, March 23, 1805: Horatio, February 24, 1807; Joseph Brewster, May 28, 1809; Susan, February 11, 1811.

Susanna (Cook) Walker, after the death of her first husband, married Ezra Kendall and had three more children; Judith Kendall, born May 17, 1816; Ezra Otis Kendall, May 17, 1818; Abigail Maria Kendall, October 31, 1820. The mother of these children was a lineal descendant of Elder William Brewster, who came in the "Mayflower" to Plymouth in 1620.

(VIII) Timothy (2), son of Benjamin Walker, was born in Wilmington, Massachusetts, December 1, 1802. He attended the public schools of his native town and entered Harvard College in August, 1822, graduating in the class of 1826 with the degree of Bachelor of Arts. He was a teacher for three years in the Round Hill School, Northampton, Massachusetts, an instructor in mathematics. He entered the Harvard Law School in October, 1829, but before completing his course decided to go westward and arrived in Cincinnati, Ohio, August 6, 1830. He was admitted to the bar and became a prominent lawyer and jurist. From 1842 to 1843 he was presiding judge of the court of common pleas of Hamilton county, Ohio. He was elected upon graduation from college to the scholars' society, the Phi Beta Kappa, and in 1850 delivered the annual Phi Beta Kappa oration at Harvard College.

He married (first) in 1832, Anna Lawler Bryant, who died within two years afterward. He married (second) March 11, 1840, Eleanor Page Wood, born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, June 27, 1811, daughter of James and Annie (Bryan) Wood. Her parents had two sons and six daughters. Her father was born in England and was an India merchant. 

Children of Hon. Timothy Walker by his first wife: Two sons died in infancy. 

Children by second wife: 1. Edward Wood, mentioned below. 2. James Bryant, died in 1874. 3. Timothy Brewster, lived at Franklin Springs, New York. 4. Anna, never married. 5. Susan, married Nicholas Longworth, who was judge of the court of common pleas of Hamilton county from 1876 to 1881, when he was elected judge of the supreme court of Ohio, and served two years; graduated from Harvard College in 1866 with high honors; a man of brilliant achievements and accomplishments; his translation of "Electra" is a permanent record of his poetical ability and fine classical scholarship; a cultivated musician and a skillful mechanic, and in social life a charming companion; died in 1890 at the age of forty-six years; left three children of whom Nicholas Longworth Jr., graduate of Harvard, married Alice Roosevelt, daughter of President Theodore Roosevelt, and is now a member of congress from Ohio. 8. Clara, married the Count de Chambrun, of France. 9. Anna, married Buckner Wallingford and has three children; Buckner Jr., Landon and Nicholas Wallingford.

(IX) Dr. Edward Wood Walker, son of Timothy (2) Walker, was born September 3, 1853, at Cincinnati, Ohio. He attended the public schools of his native city and entered Harvard College, from which he was graduated with the degree of Bachelor of Arts in the class of 1874. He began to study his profession in the Cincinnati Medical College and was graduated with the degree of Doctor of Medicine in 1877. He then spent two years abroad, attending lectures at Heidelberg University and at Berlin and Vienna. Upon his return home he began to practice his profession in Cincinnati, making a specialty of surgery in which he attained great skill and prominence. In 1886 he was demonstrator of pathology at the Medical College of Ohio, and in the same year was elected to the chair of surgery and pathology in Miami Medical College. He is also a professor on the staff of the Cincinnati City Hospital and in the Episcopal Hospital and on the staff of the German Deaconess' Hospital and the Betts Street Hospital. He is a member of the Ohio State Academy of Medicine and of the American Medical Association. Since 1910 he has been a member of the Cincinnati Board of Health. He was formerly examiner of the pension department of the United States. He has taken all the thirty-two degrees in Scottish Rite Masonry and is a member of Harmony Lodge, No. 5, the chapter, council, commandery and other Masonic bodies; also member of the Blain Club, the Press Club of Cincinnati and the Queen City Club. He is a communicant of the Protestant Episcopal church. In politics he is a Republican. He married, June 7, 1893, Inez Hatfield, born in 1872, daughter of John Hatfield, of Lebanon, Ohio. They have no children.