Fred Goldsmith Walker

1868 - 1941  (73 years)

• Name	Fred Goldsmith Walker
  Birth	14 Sep 1868	Salem, Essex, MA
  Gender	Male
  Census	9 Jun 1870	Salem, Essex, MA ; age 1, born MA, living with parents
  Census	8 Jun 1880	Salem, Essex, MA ; age 11, born MA, at school, living with parents
  Census	2 Jun 1900	Salem, Essex, MA ; age 31, born Sep 1868 in MA, marr 3 yrs, bookkeeper at produce co, parents born MA/MA
  Census	19 Apr 1910	Salem, Essex, MA ; age 41, born MA, mx1-12 yrs, advertising for daily paper, parents born MA/MA
  Census	12 Jan 1920	Hempstead, Nassau, NY ; age 51, born MA, bookeeper at express co, parents born MA/MA, living in house of brother-in-law
  Census	1 Jun 1925	New York, New York, NY ; age 41, born US, bookkeeper
  Census	15 Apr 1930	Marblehead, Essex, MA ; age 61, born MA, 1st marr at 53, parents born MA/MA
  Census	8 Apr 1940	Arlington, Middlesex, MA ; age 70, born MA, H4 ed, in same place in 1935
  Death	2 Nov 1941	Arlington, Middlesex, MA
  Burial		Harmony Grove Cemetery, Salem, MA
  Person ID	I3884	Family Tree
  Last Modified	15 Apr 2018

  
  

  Father	Parker Lamson Walker,   b. 11 Dec 1844, Salem, Essex, MA d. 11 Dec 1922, Salem, Essex, MA (Age 78 years)
  Mother	Arabella S Goldsmith,   b. 16 May 1848, Salem, Essex, MA
  Marriage	21 Oct 1867	Chelsea, Suffolk, MA
  Notes	from "Massachusetts, Marriage Records, 1840-1915" (ancestry.com) On 21 Oct 1867 in Chelsea MA, Parker L Walker, 22, a regulator residing Salem MA, born Salem to Parker D & Margaret, married Arabella S Goldsmith, 19, residing Salem, born Salem to George W & Mary A. 1st marriage for both. from "The Boston Herald", 22 Oct 1917 (genealogybank.com) Mr. and Mrs. Parker L. Walker of 5 Winthrop street, Salem, celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary yesterday with a reception to their friends both afternoon and evening. The Sough Congregational Church, at which Mr. Walker served as organist for 50 years continuously, presented the couple with flowers. When less than 11 years old he was organist at the Howard Street Congregational Church. A year later he went to the St. James Church. He was organist at St. Peter's Episcopal Church at the age of 13, and for six years after that presided at the organ at the First Baptist Church. April 2, 1865, he became organist of the South Congregational Church. Mrs. Walker was Miss Arabella S. Goldsmith of Salem, and the couple were married in Chelsea, Oct. 21, 1867. They had two children, a son, Fred Goldsmith Walker of Danvers, and a daughter, the late Mrs. Edward S. Little of Washington.
  Family ID	F651	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 1	Della Gertrude Sprague,   b. 11 Apr 1874, Chelmsford, Middlesex, MA
  Marriage	24 Jun 1897	Salem, Essex, MA
  Notes	Lillian Walker, age 1 2/12, living in house in 1910 is likely niece, not daughter.
  Family ID	F1068	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	15 Apr 2018

  
  

  Family 2	Angia,   b. New York d. 31 Jul 1945, Arlington, Middlesex, MA
  Marriage	1922
  Family ID	F7970	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	15 Apr 2018

  
  

• Notes

  from "The Boston Herald", 4 Nov 1941 (genealogybank.com) Services for Fred Goldsmith Walker, 73, of 20 Pond lane, Arlington, retired Boston newspaper advertising man, will be held tomorrow at 1:45 P.M. in the Saville and Kimball Chapel, 418 Massachusetts avenue, Arlington. Burial will be in Harmony Grove cemetery, Salem. He was associated with the Boston Transcript for many years before retiring nearly nine years ago. He died Sunday. Born in Salem, he had been a resident of Arlington for seven years. He was a member of the First Baptist Church of Arlington, and Franklin lodge of Masons, New York.