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Excerpt from Memories of the Early Life and Development of Minnesota When I told him that I would like a position to teach mathe maties, it struck him more than favorably, as he said that that was his line of work, and that it did not give him any time to run the university and he wanted some one to handle the classes. We went around with his horse and buggy among the members Of the Board, and I found that the general scare which everywhere existed made them hesitate about making any arrangements for the future running of the school, not knowing whether or not it would ever open again. The presi dent, whose name I have forgotten, said that when school would open again, which he hoped would be in the fall, he felt quite certain that I would be offered a position as assistant teacher in mathematics. A majority of the board were really in favor of engaging me, and the other members were not op posed, excepting only their apprehension as to future pros peets of the university in such calamitous times. This came to pass in the fall, when I was on the government surveys in the northern part of Minnesota and could not accept. If this open ing had occurred or had been decided upon before I came to this state, it would without doubt have changed the course of my whole life. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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Thomas Barlow Walker was born in Xenia, Ohio, the son of Platt Bayliss and Anstis (Barlow) Walker. His father died in Missouri on his way to the California gold fields in 1849 and six years later the widowed mother and her children moved to Berea, Ohio.
Walker supplemented his early schooling with an occasional term at Baldwin University in Berea.
Working to help support the family and to finance his education, he sold grindstones for Fletcher Hulet, traveling for the purpose all over the Northwest. Until the late sixties Walker was employed as surveyor, an occupation which revealed to him the value of the pine stands of northern Minnesota. His knowledge, together with money furnished by Minneapolis men, made possible the firm of Butler, Mills & Walker, which invested heavily in pine lands, especially through the purchase of Chippewa Half-Breed Scrip, which was supposedly non-transferable. A federal investigation of these purchases exonerated Walker and other purchasers from blame on the specific point designated by Congress, but the report stated that the "testimony reveals a reckless carelessness in making large purchases, and we think, on the part of many of the claimants, guilty participation in an ingenious device to evade the orders of the Government". Walker escaped disaster in the panic of 1873 by disposing of most of his holdings before the crash, but subsequently, with new partners from time to time, he extended his timber holdings until he was the largest operator in Minnesota. Eventually the Walker lumber interests were concentrated in the family, largely through the Red River Lumber Company. In the late eighties Walker and his sons began to invest in California lands, seeking "enough timber to enable the mills to run permanently with the timber supply always growing" (Minneapolis Times, May 3, 1905). Lumbering, sale of cut-over ore lands, real-estate deals in and about Minneapolis, and various other ventures made Walker a millionaire many times over. By the early years of the twentieth century he had practically withdrawn from active business, to devote most of his time to civic and philanthropic enterprises and especially to his growing art collection. Walker's interest in art started with the purchase of a portrait of Washington by Rembrandt Peale, and by 1880 he had to build a special room to house his acquisitions. Subsequently additions were made to his home to form the Walker Art Gallery, which was opened to the public. He was one of the founders of the Minneapolis Society of Fine Arts and was its president from 1888 to 1893, but was unwilling to merge his treasures with those of the Society and finally built an edifice to house his paintings, jewelry, stones, pottery, jade, and glass. This collection was of uneven merit, many trivial and bizarre objects being mingled with those of unquestioned significance. In 1925 he organized the Walker Foundation, a corporation to administer the gallery and collections, and two years later gave the Foundation a permanent endowment. In 1915 he contributed "Memories of the Early Life and Development of Minnesota, " to the Collections of the Minnesota Historical Society (vol. XV).
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He supported actively the Young Men's Christian Association, the Methodist Episcopal Church, of which he was a member, the Minneapolis Public Libary, which he had helped to found, and many other philanthropic enterprises.
He was a conservative Republican, impatient of the vagaries of "reformers".
Quotes from others about the person
Donald Torbert wrote:
"Today it is impossible to assess, with anything approaching justice, the worth of the individual contributions, because each person was indispensable. But two, by reason of their energy and position in the community, played leading roles and through their accomplishments left a permanent imprint on the art life of the community. They were William Watts Folwell and Thomas Barlow Walker. "
On December 9, 1863, he married Hulet's daughter, Harriet, and with her took up his permanent residence in Minneapolis. They had five sons and a daughter.
