BORN IN: New York
DIED: 10/31/1885
AGED: 56
DEATH LOCATION: San Mateo
OCCUPATION: Hotel Keeper
PLOT INFO:
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FAMILY INFO:
MENTIONED IN:
BURIED IN UNION CEMETERY WITH THE SAME LAST NAME:
- Walker, Claude Tobin
- Walker, Eugene (d.1886)
- Walker, Henry
- Walker, Hiram W
- Walker, Infant Son
- Walker, Malcolm V
- Walker, Mary F
- Walker, Mary (d.1872)
- Walker, May F
- Walker, Nancy L
- Walker, Phebe
- Walker, Sylvester
- Walker, Willard
- Walker, William Walter
- Walker, Zillah
BURIED NEARBY IN PLOT 9:
CURRENT EVENTS:- 1831 Reaper (Cyrus McCormick)
- 1836 Revolver (Samuel Colt)
- 1845 Texas annexed into U.S.
- 1846 Mexican-American War
- 1849 California Gold Rush
- 1850 California became the 31st State
- 1860 The Pony Express
- 1861 Abraham Lincoln elected President
- 1861 American Civil War
- 1865 Abraham Lincoln assassinated
- 1866 Ku Klux Klan
- 1869 National Woman Suffrage Assoc.
- 1871 The Great Chicago Fire
- 1876 Telephones (Alexander Graham Bell)
- 1876 Baseball's National League
- 1877 Phonograph (Thomas Edison)
- 1879 Light Bulb (Thomas Edison)
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From the public domain book:
History of San Mateo County, California
, published in 1883
Eugene Walker
Mr. Walker, who is one of the pioneers of San Mateo
county, was born in Chatauque county, New York, April 13, 1829. At the
age of sixteen years he moved to the state of Pennsylvania, where he was
engaged in boating on the Allegheny and Ohio rivers, remaining until he came
to California via the Isthmus, in 1857. He settled first at West Union, in this
county, and resided there until 1858, when he moved to Pescadero. His wife
died here. Mrs. Walker was one of those devoted women who, leaving home,
relatives, friends, and all that was dear to happy childhood, followed her husband
to a far off and almost unknown country. She rests from the toil, care
and sorrow of this world, beneath a little mound of earth, a short distance
from the village of Pescadero. Mr. Walker lived in Pescadero until 1861,
when he engaged in the business of freighting, in Nevada, for James G. Fair,
Whipple and Treadwell. He followed this business eight months, and then
accepted a position with the Southern Pacific railroad company, where he
remained for three years. He was afterwards employed on the ranch of
George H. Howard, and October 6, 1864, he settled in San Mateo, where he
has since lived, being the first proprietor of the San Mateo Hotel. He has
held the position of deputy sheriff, and is well known throughout the county.
The name of his first wife was Mary Whipple, a native of Vermont, and the
issue of this marriage was a son, John H. His second wife was Margaret
Smith, and they have one daughter, Clara Agnes.
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