Walker, William (2)

a Baptist minister, was born in Dighton, Mass., Sept. 19, 1817. When a young man he resided in New Bedford, where he learned the trade of a shipwright. While thus engaged, he became a hopeful Christian, and his attention was soon turned to the Christian ministry. He was prepared for college at the Academy in Middleborough, and was a graduate of Brown University in the class of 1843. He pursued theological studies at the Newton Institution for six months, and then went to the West, where he found everywhere an open field for ministerial labor. For a year and a half he preached at Dixon, Ill. While attending a meeting of a Baptist association at Peoria, Ill., he was attacked by a fatal disease, and lived only nine days, dying Oct. 26, 1846. See the Walker Memorial, p. 91. (J. C. S.)