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| Affiliation | American National |
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| Name | James B. Walker |
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Wheaton, Illinois , United States |
| Email | None |
| Website | None |
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July 29, 1805
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| Died | March 06, 1887
(81 years)
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| Contributor | Chronicler |
| Last Modifed | Chronicler
Aug 18, 2020 06:10pm |
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| Info | James B. Walker was a Christian minister and worker who ran for US President on an anti-Masonic ticket in 1876.
Walker was born in Philadelphia on 7/29/1805. His family moved early in his life to Pittsburgh, where Walker worked in a factory making cut nails. Walker then began the Western Courier, the first political paper published in Portage County, Ohio. He studied law with a firm in Ravenna, Ohio, before entering Hudson College. Upon graduation, he edited the Ohio Observer at Hudson. His early years in the ministry were influenced by the Quakers, Congregationalists, Presbyterians, and Methodists. His next newspaper, the Watchman of the Night, later became the Central Christian Herald, published by Presbyterians. About this time, he published his first book, The Philosophy of the Plan of Salvation, which was republished multiple times in the latter half of the nineteenth century and used as a textbook in seminaries around the nation.
Walker then moved to Chicago. He gained a reputation there for his work with Sabbath schools. He also helped to establish the first Baptist newspaper in Chicago. When the Chicago Sabbath School Union was organized, he was elected the first president.
In the mid-1850s, Walker lived in Mansfield, Ohio. As an ardent opponent of slavery, he was active in the nomination of Salmon P. Chase for governor of Ohio at the 1855 Republican convention. He travelled to Europe in the early 1860s, working with Christian literary and publishing organizations there. Among his colleagues in England were John Bright and W.E. Gladstone.
Walker settled in an undeveloped part of Michigan around 1863. He opened a Christian agricultural college named Benzonia College, got a county established (Benzie County 1863), helped a fledgling intentional community, and opened a newspaper. He actively supported the Lincoln-Johnson ticket in 1864. He was elected to the Michigan state senate in 1865, winning more votes than had been given to any previous candidate in the county.
Walker moved to Wheaton, Illinois, in 1872, where he lived the remainder of his life.
Chicago Tribune, 8/1/1875 and 3/9/1887 |
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