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HISTORY of CITY OF TOLEDO and LUCAS COUNTY, OHIO
Illustrated
Clark Waggoner, Editor
Publ. New York & Toledo:
Munsell & Company, Publishers
1888
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Clark Waggoner |
CLARK WAGGONER
Source: City of Toledo and Lucas County, Ohio -
Illustrated - Clark Waggoner, Editor - Publ. New York &
Toledo: Munsell & Company, Publishers 1888 - Page 651 |
M. R. Waite |
MORRISON R. WAITE
Source: City of Toledo and Lucas County, Ohio -
Illustrated - Clark Waggoner, Editor - Publ. New York &
Toledo: Munsell & Company, Publishers 1888 - Page 525 |
H. S. Walbridge |
HORACE S. WALBRIDGE
Source:
Story of City of Toledo and Lucas County, Ohio, Illustrated - Clark
Waggoner, Editor - Publ. New York & Toledo: Munsell & Company,
Publishers - 1888 - Page 472a |
W. T. Walker |
WILLIAM T. WALKER
was born near the City of Dublin, Ireland, Dec. 28, 1825, and is of
English and Welsh ancestry. He was educated by private tutor
until his 14th year, when he entered a wholesale Grocer and Wine
Merchant's office in Carlow, as junior Clerk. Here so rapid
was his promotion, that at the end of four years he had passed
through the different grades of service and became Bookkeeper.
In 1845 the failing health of his father, then living at Athy, in
the County of Kildare, necessitated his return home, where he
remained until after his father's death in 1846, when he accepted a
Government position on the staff of the Government Engineering
Department, established to furnish work for the relief of the people
made destitute by the failure of the potato crop. In this
connection he served as inspecting officer and surveyor of work done
on the public works until the abandonment of the service in the
Summer of 1847. In the Full of that year, having been
disappointed at not getting a position in the Army at home, he
emigrated to the United States. At that period the Mexican War
had attractions for him, and he accordingly enlisted in the Second
New York Volunteer Infantry, and some time afterwards was ordered to
Vera Cruz, Mexico, with a detachment of recruits. Instead of
the service he expected to participate in on the field, he was
detained with others at Vera Cruz, as a clerk in the Surgeon
General's office there, much of his discomfiture. He served
during the War and in July, 1848, returned to the United States with
the last detachment of the Regiment, and was mustered out the 31st
day of the same month, and soon thereafter sailed for England, where
he passed Winter of 1848-9. In the Fall of 1849 he returned to
the United States, and soon after his arrival became foreman on the
Public Works at Buffalo. He subsequently became connected with
the New York and Erie and State Line, the Buffalo and State Line,
and the Buffalo and Canandaigua Railroads, as Foreman or Clerk, and
on the latter as Manager.
In 1853 he became Book-keeper for the house of
Chamberlain & Crawford, Canal Line and Steamboat Agents, of
Cleveland, in one of their branch establishments at Rochester,
Pennsylvania, where he remained four years part of the time as
resident manager of their transportation business. In 1857,
and the urgent solicitations of the senior member of the firm, who
entertained the highest opinion of his ability and trustworthiness,
he removed to Cleveland to act as shipping agent of the firm.
He remained in that office one year, when he received the
appointment of agent of the Northern Transportation Company's line
of Steamers at Toledo. Here his business ability and
management soon built up an immense traffic for the line, and in the
actual management of which he was identified until the company
dissolved in 1880. In the meantime he established a Commission
House in Toledo, with P. Chamberlain of Cleveland, and H.
J. Hayes of Toledo, and up to 1886 had two or three other
partners. Mr. Walker for many years has taken the
warmest interest in Free Masonry. He first joined the order at
Rochester, Pennsylvania, in 1853, being made a Master Mason in
Rochester Lodge, No. 229; a Royal Arch Mason in Rochester Lodge, No.
229; a Royal arch Mason in Fort Meigs Chapter (Toledo). No. 20, and
a Royal and Select Master in Toledo Council, No. 33. He is
also a Knight Templar in Toledo Commandery, No. 7, one of the
largest Masonic bodies of the grade in the State, of which he has
been for two years Eminent Commander; also a member of the bodies at
Toledo, and the Ohio consistory, at Cincinnati of the "Ancient and
Accepted Scottish Rite Masons." As a Mason he has held office
in one grade of each and every Masonic body but one in the City of
Toledo - the highest in the gift of the Commandery K. T., and is now
the second highest in the Grand Commandery of K. T. of Ohio; and has
been for years the representative of the Grand Commandery of the
State of New Jersey to the Grand Commandery of Ohio, is now also G.
Sec. of A. A. Rite of Toledo. For many years he has been an
Active member of the Masonic Relief Association of Northwestern Ohio
of which he has been Director and Vice President, and is now
President. In Masonry he has attained the 32d degree.
Mr. Walker is a progressive ,public spirited
man, and is an has been prominently identified with many local
institutions - a Director for many years and in 1879 and in 1884
President of the Produce Exchange; one of the originators and a
Director of the Toledo Soldiers Memorial Association, has been its
President for two years and in which he now holds the office of
Treasurer; has been a Director for many years of the Toledo Fire and
Marine Insurance Company; helped to organize the American District
Telegraph Company, and has for years been a Director and Vice
President; and is now Secretary of Masonic Temple Association, an
organization which purchased the ground and erected the present
Masonic Temple on corner of Superior and Adams Streets; is now Vice
President of the Ohio State Association of Mexican War Veterans; has
been from the organization a Director of the Toledo, Columbus and
Southern Railroad Company, and is now its Vice President; and has
been since 1884 a member of the Loyal legion of the United States,
Cincinnati, Ohio. Commandery, a membership of which he is
especially proud. In all these varied and responsible
positions he has ever been an active and positive force.
A Republican since the birth of that party, he has ever
been a staunch believer and advocator of the principles and
doctrines of the party. He was first elected member of the
Toledo Common Council in 1875, and again in 1877; in 1880 was
elected to the Board of Aldermen. He served as Vice President
of the Council for two years, and as President of the Board of
Aldermen one year. During his service in Councilmen one year.
During his service in Council and as Alderman he was Chairman of the
Committee on Ways and Means except one year. In 1886 he was
appointed City Auditor and at present fills that office. His
appointment was received with approval by the citizens of Toledo,
who recognized in him a man eminently fitted for the position.
Mr. Walker was married to Julia Barrell,
of Evans, New York, who died in 1870, leaving six children. He
remarried in 1871 Rose Jennings, of Adrian, Michigan, to whom
two sons and a daughter have been born.
Source: City of Toledo and Lucas County, Ohio -
Illustrated - Clark Waggoner, Editor - Publ. New York &
Toledo: Munsell & Company, Publishers 1888 - Page 472e |
Isaac Washburn |
ISAAC WASHBURN
Source: City of Toledo and Lucas County, Ohio -
Illustrated - Clark Waggoner, Editor - Publ. New York &
Toledo: Munsell & Company, Publishers 1888 - Page 868 |
M. I. Wilcox |
MINOT I. WILCOX
Source:
City of Toledo and Lucas County, Ohio, Illustrated - Clark Waggoner,
Editor - Publ. New York & Toledo: Munsell & Company, Publishers -
1888 - Page 776 |
Geo. Worts |
GEORGE WORTS
Source:
Story of City of Toledo and Lucas County, Ohio, Illustrated - Clark
Waggoner, Editor - Publ. New York & Toledo: Munsell & Company,
Publishers - 1888 - Page
782 |
James Wright |
JAMES WRIGHT
Source:
Story of City of Toledo and Lucas County, Ohio, Illustrated - Clark
Waggoner, Editor - Publ. New York & Toledo: Munsell & Company,
Publishers - 1888 - Page 856 |
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