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See: Title Kansas City, Missouri: Its History and Its People, 1800-1908 Abstract Biographical sketch of George Morton Walker, or George Walker, a retired railroad engineer. Born in Pennsylvania in 1830 and raised in Missouri before coming to Kansas City in 1877 as a railroad engineer and Union Civil War veteran, with residence at 2934 Park Avenue. Author Carrie Westlake Whitney 1908.

Education: He received a common (Country) school education supplememted by a term o f twenty weeks in a village academy.
Occupation: He commenced civil engineering on the location and construction of the Cleveland and Toledo Railroad (Now part of the L.S. & M.S. Railroad). JUL 1851
Immigration: APR 1856 Iowa
Event: Milit-Beg 20 AUG 1862 Note: He enlisted in "C" Company, 11th Kansas Volunteer Infantry. The regiment was transferred to the Cavalry in June, 1863. He was promoted to 2nd L ieutenant of the company in September 1863.
Event: Milit-End 28 SEP 1865 Note: Discharged.
Note: He reconstructed his home in Lawrence, Kansas.
Immigration: MAY 1857 Lyon Co., Kansas
Occupation: He re-entered railway engineering and continued in civil engineering work for the next 41 years. He retired to better care for his invalid wife, companion of 50 years. BET SEP 1866 AND NOV 1907 George Morton Walker (David Oliver 6, John Hoge 5, William 4, William (no will) 3, James 2, Robert 1) was born 16 Sep 1830 in Washington Co, Pennsylvania. He married Ziporah Maxwell 10 Nov 1857 in Crawfordsville, Iowa. She was born 11 Aug 1834 in Harrison Co, Ohio, and died 09 Jun 1910 in Washington, Iowa.

Notes for George Morton Walker:
2008: http://skyways.lib.ks.us/genweb/archives/1918ks/biow/walkerod.html
George M. Walker was born in Washington County, Pennsylvania, September 16, 1830, a son of David O. Walker, a native of the same state. When he was twenty-seven years of age, in 1857, he came out to the Territory of Kansas. He made his home in Lyons County, then a frontier community. He took charge and until the outbreak of the Civil war operated the first overland mail and package line between Lawrence and Emporia.

He saw a long and active career as a soldier during the Civil war. Enlisting in the Eleventh Kansas Cavalry, commanded by Preston B. Plumb, who later rose to distinction as one of the great Kansans of his generation, he served as a private for a year and then was made first lieutenant. He was one of the capable and gallant officers of his company, until the close of the war. Much of his service was in the States of Missouri and Arkansas. He fought in the battle of Prairie Grove and other well known engagements in that section. During a considerable part of the war he was assigned to duty in the commissary office of Olathe, Kansas. Just before the close of hostilities his regiment took part in a campaign against the hostile Indians in the far West.

By profession George M. Walker was a civil engineer. After the war he began practicing that profession in the capacity of locating engineer for the Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railroad. His work in selecting and laying out the route from Junction City, Kansas, to Dennison, Texas, kept him busy from 1867 to 1872, when the road was completed south of Red River. It will be recalled that this was the first railroad line to cross the Indian Territory, and as the Indian Territory was then populated almost exclusively by Indians and by a number of bad white men the work of the engineers was attended not only with great hardships and many difficulties but also with much hazard because of the hostile country in which they worked.

After his task had been completed with the Missouri, Kansas & Texas, Mr. Walker found almost constant employment as a locating engineer with various railroad lines. An achievement which deserves to be especially associated with his name was laying out the original railroad yards at the first Union station in Kansas City, Missouri. He did that work in 1877, and it was singularly appropriate that he should have been called in after a lapse of thirty-seven years, in 1914, to plot the yards for the present magnificent union station in that city. Many of the western railroad companies have employed his services as a locating engineer. He practically retired from active business in 1907, and has since made his home with his son, Doctor Walker, at Salina.

Children of George Walker and Ziporah Maxwell are:
+ 920 i. John Maxwell 8 Walker, born 02 Sep 1858; died 10 Dec 1904 in Mexico.
+ 921 ii. Dr. Oliver David Walker, born 03 Dec 1860 in Breckenridge, Lyon, Kansas.
+ 922 iii. George Morton Walker, born 17 Aug 1862 in Americus, Kansas.
+ 923 iv. Jane Orr Jeannie Walker, born 14 Oct 1865 in Crawfordsville, Iowa.
+ 924 v. May Walker, born 26 Dec 1868.
+ 925 vi. William Thomas Walker I, born 28 Jun 1874 in Lawrence, Kansas; died 1932.
+ 926 vii. James Herron Walker, born 30 Jul 1877 in Lawrence, Kansas.

Birth	16 Sep 1830	Butler County, Pennsylvania
Marriage	10 Nov 1857	Crawfordsville, Washington County, Iowa - Zipporah Melissa Maxwell
Military Service - Civil War	19 Aug 1862	Enlistment - Kansas
Military Service - Civil War	22 Sep 1865	Discharge - Kansas
Census (family)	13 Aug 1870	Wakarusa, Douglas County, Kansas - Zipporah Melissa Maxwell
Census (family)	1 Mar 1875	Wakarusa, Douglas County, Kansas - Zipporah Melissa Maxwell
Census (family)	23 Jun 1880	Lawrence, Douglas County, Kansas - Zipporah Melissa Maxwell
Census (family)	12 Jun 1900	Jackson, Lee County, Iowa - Zipporah Melissa Maxwell
Death	12 Dec 1918	Salina, Saline County, Kansas
Burial		Mount Washington Cemetery, Independence, Jackson County, Missouri

Spouse	Zipporah Melissa Maxwell (1834 - 1910)
Child	John Maxwell Walker (1858 - 1902)
Child	Dr. Oliver David Walker (1860 - 1954)
Child	George Morton Walker Jr. (1862 - 1957)
Child	Jennie Orr Walker (1865 - 1947)
Child	May M. Walker (1868 - 1972)
Child	Alice Walker (1869 - )
Child	William Thomas Walker (1874 - 1932)
Child	James Herron Walker (1877 - 1942)

Father	David Oliver Walker (1802 - 1841)
Mother	Maria Morton (1804 - 1849)

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