Walker, William
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Walker, William, of Add MS 41367
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Walker, William, Recorder of Dublin
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Walker, William, of Newcastle-upon-Tyne
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Walker, William, of Leeds
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Walker, William, Lieutenant-Colonel; Royal Marines
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Walker, William, of Rhode Island
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Walker, William, of Add MS 38212
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Walker, William, trade union official
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Walker, William, of Riber, co. Derby, yeoman
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Walker, William, of Riber, co. Derby, yeoman
Walker, William, of Add MS 40374
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Walker, William, of Add MS 40374
Walker, William, cali printer
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Walker, William, of Sloane MS 1968
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Walker, William, worsted-spinner, of Bradford
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Epithet: cali printer
Epithet: Lieutenant-Colonel; Royal Marines
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Epithet: of Riber, co. Derby, yeoman
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In 1873, William Walker served as captain of Samson, tender to the steamer Diana, on the British Exploring Expedition (leader Benjamin Leigh Smith), a private venture to explore in waters north of Svalbard. Walker set out in Samson on 29 April and Smith followed with Diana in May. After delivering supplies to Nils Otto Gustaf Nordenskild's expedition at Mosselbukta, Smith met Samson in July off northwest Nordaustlandet, planning to continue east from there to survey Kong Karls Land. However, the two vessels encountered much ice north of Nordaustlandet and Diana was beset for a short time off Kapp Platen, thus preventing further progress. The expedition returned to Dundee in September with a variety of natural history collections and observations.
Epithet: Recorder of Dublin
Epithet: trade union official
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Epithet: worsted-spinner, of Bradford
William Walker was born in Leith, Scotland on March 14, 1885, the fifth child of David and Darling Broomfield Walker. In 1894, William's oldest borther, David emigrated to the United States, settling in Dover, New Hampshire. Three years later, he brought his patents and siblings over. His sisters went to work in the woolen mills, where David had first found employment, while his father resumed his craft as a carpenter. Young William attended school; he also learned carpentry, presumably from his father.
Sometime after 1903, William headed west, traveling to Panama, San Francisco, Mexico, El Paso, Flagstaff, and southern Arizona. He worked in carpentry and construction, among other jobs, and, in 1916, volunteered in the Punitive Expedition to Mexico, where Pancho Villa was active, as a civilian scout. In the ensuing years, he traveled and lived in southern and northern Arizona, Mexico, and El Paso, working as a law man and as a carpenter. On his 1920 passport, required for travel to Mexico by this time, he indicated his residence as the Weatherford Hotel, Flagstaff, and his birthplace as Dover, New Hampshire. From this time on, he never mentioned his parents or actual birthplace.
In 1922, William was living in the Tucson vicinity, where he befriended eastern author Harold Bell Wright. Walker worked on Wright's home, and later took him on a wilderness pack trip during which Wright composed The Mine with the Iron Door.
William was back in Flagstaff early the following year, where he met Rosamund Hopkins Fox. Rosamund, a well-to-do New Yorker with deep eastern roots, and her father, Royal Fox, hired William as a tour guide. Rosamund and William married on September 16, 1923, in San Diego. Their daughter, Betty Juanita, was born in Syracuse, New York, where Rosamund owned property, on September 22, 1924. The family moved to Sarasota, Florida to take advantage of the building boom. On May 9, 1926, William Welles Walker was born.
The Walkers left Florida for Arizona after a fall, 1927 hurricane destroyed their home and business, settling in Tucson. Their last child, Royal Fox Walker, was born there on January 27, 1928. The family then moved to Phoenix, next to Williams, and finally back to Flagstaff. Rosamund was never fully able to cope with the poverty the family suffered during the Depression, having lost everything during the Florida hurricane. She became ill, and passed away on June 20, 1937.
When the war effort began in 1940, William found work as a carpenter at Camp Callen, California. Afterwards, the family moved to San Diego, where the children finished school. Betty joined the WAC, obtained a degree from San Diego State University, married Louis Hayward Quayle, and then moved to Tucson to do graduate work. Welles joined the Army, and was ultimately stationed in Germany and Vietnam. Royal, after working with the Coast Guard, became a theater manager, married, and had three daughters. William stayed active with the Carpenter's Union, and enjoyed traveling to Arizona to visit old friends. He died on February 28, 1970. His ashes were placed next to Rosamund's grave in Flagstaff.
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