James Harvey Walker

1814 - 1859  (45 years)

• Name	James Harvey Walker
  Birth	29 May 1814	East Salem, Fayette, PA
  Gender	Male
  Census	27 Oct 1850	Pymatuning, Mercer, PA ; age 30, born PA, carpenter, living next to parents
  Death	14 Aug 1859	Clarksville, Mercer, PA
  Census	1860	Clarksville, Mercer, PA ; 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 d. 1853, Clarksville, Mercer, PA (Age 62 years)
  Mother	Elizabeth,   b. 1792, Pennsylvania
  Family ID	F107	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Martha McDowell,   b. 1 May 1821, Ireland d. 28 Jan 1895, New Brighton, Beaver, PA (Age 73 years)
  Marriage	11 Jan 1842
  Children	+ 1. Julia Ann Walker,   b. 28 Jul 1843, Clarksville, Mercer, PA d. 18 Jan 1882, Hartford, Trumbull, OH (Age 38 years)   2. Catherine Elizabeth Walker,   b. 1 Feb 1845, Clarksville, Mercer, PA + 3. James Leander Walker,   b. 9 Sep 1848, Clarksville, Mercer, PA d. 24 Oct 1927, New Brighton, Beaver, PA (Age 79 years) + 4. Mary Ellen “Nellie” Walker,   b. 1851, Clarksville, Mercer, PA d. 8 Feb 1897, Richburg, Allegany, NY (Age 46 years) + 5. William George Walker,   b. 19 Mar 1855, Clarksville, Mercer, PA d. 25 Mar 1934, New Brighton, Beaver, PA (Age 79 years) + 6. Frank H. Walker,   b. 23 Oct 1858, Clarksville, Mercer, PA d. 3 Sep 1934, Glendale, Los Angeles, CA (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.