Background
Walker, Charles Swan was born on October 7, 1846 in Cincinnati, Ohio, United States. Son of Samuel Swan and Harriet N. (Fowles) Walker.
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Charles Swan Walker
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Education
Bachelor of Arts, Yale, 1867, Master of Arts, Bachelor of Divinity, 1870. Andover Theological Seminary, 1868-1869. Doctor of Philosophy, Amherst, 1885.
Career
Served 100 days as member 137th Regiment, United States Volumes, Civil War. Ordained Congleton ministry, 1871. Pastor Darien, 1871-1872, Huntington, West Virginia, 1873-1874, Holyoke, Massachusetts, 1874-1876, South Church, Amherst, 1876-1879, 1881-1886, Vineland, New Jersey, 1879-1881.
Professor mental and political science, Massachusetts Agricultural College, 1886-1906, also chaplain.
Writer, lecturer, newspaper correspondent.
Achievements
Membership
Served 100 days as; Member American Academy political and Social Science, American Economics Association, Amherst History Society (president), Phi Beta Kappa, Chaplain State Grange, Massachusetts, 14 years.
Connections
Married Alice M. Morehouse, of Darien, Connecticut, 1873. Children: Claude Frederic, Charles Morehouse.
