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Born 1848
From The Biographical record of Clinton County, Iowa .. (1901)
SAMUEL B. WALKER.
Prominent among the business men of Calamus is Samuel B. Walker, who for nearly thirty years has been closely identified with the history of that place, and his name is inseparably connected with its commercial and banking interests. He was born at North Augusta, Ontario, Canada, October 28, 1848. and is a son of William and Nancy (Bellamy) Walker. The father was also a native of Canada, where he continued to make his home until twenty-two years of age, when he went to Akron, Ohio, where he became a naturalized American citizen, and was engaged in the grocery business at that place. In 1847 ne married his second wife, the mother of our subject.
On leaving home at the age of sixteen years, Samuel B. Walker went to Watertown, New York, where he was employed as office boy in a hotel for a time. Later he spent a short time in Albany working on the canal, and then went to New York city, being there when President Lincoln was elected for a second term in 1864. Returning home, he taught school through the following winter, and in March, 1865, went to Titusville. Pennsylvania, where he remained until the fall of 1866. He then attended school for nearly a year, and receiving a certificate to teach, he taught school in Canada for one year, after which he was variously employed for a time.
On the lath of August, 1868, Mr. Walker arrived in DeWitt, Iowa, and found employment with the firm of Meredith & Walker, furniture dealers of that place, for whk mi he opened a branch store in Clarence, Iowa, remaining there until December, 1868, when they sold out. Mr. Walker then went to Cedar Rapids, where he engaged in the grocery business for a time. In 1869 he came to Calamus, and after teaching school north of the village for four months he bought a small stock of groceries and embarked in business there. Soon afterward he turned his attention to the drug business, but sold out in 1870 and went to Lyons, where he engaged in the hotel business under the firm name of Carr & Walker for a short time. On disposing of his interest in that enterprise lie engaged in the fire insurance business in Calamus until
As printed in The Biographical record of Clinton County, Iowa .. (1901). See the original pages. Wording is the original; obvious scanning errors have been corrected, and a few may remain.
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