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Robert Walker, prosecuting attorney of Gasconade County, and one of its leading young attorneys, was born near Hermann, Mo., October 15, 1858. His father, whose birth occurred in Switzerland November 19, 1821, left there at the age of nineteen, and after living at Paris, France, several years, came to America in 1848; the gold excitement then prevalent induced him to visit California, and in all he made three trips there, purchasing cattle in Missouri and driving them across the plains, where they were sold at a good profit; he also engaged to some extent in digging gold. In the spring of 1856 he purchased a farm in the northern part of Gasconade County, on which he settled and where he still lives. In the spring of 1856, Miss Mattie Gulden became his wife; she was born in New Jersey, August 9, 1837, and when a child accompanied her parents to near Hermann, where she was reared. The subject of this sketch spent his boyhood and early manhood almost entirely on the farm, and during his younger years attended the public schools in the winter seasons. When about twenty years old he entered Central Wesleyan College, at Warrenton, attended one year, and then taught school for four winters in the country, working the farm during vacation. In the fall of 1884 he became a student of law at the Missouri State University, graduating in the spring of 1886. In the following fall he became a candidate for prosecuting attorney, and as an independent was elected, after which he removed to Hermann, and began the practice of his profession in connection with his official position.