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James Walker, a resident of the Fourth District, was born January 30, 1831, in Orange County, N. C., and was the third son born to Empson and Martha (Kerry) Walker. He came with his parents to Tennessee in 1842 and located in Haywood County, ten miles east of Brownsville, where he remained until they died. Mr. Walker’s ancestors were of Irish and English descent. He was raised on a farm, working for his father until twenty­one years of age, then assumed the management of it and continued until he was thirty years old, when he moved to his present farm in Lauderdale County. While in Haywood County, in 1852, he was elected to the magistrate’s office and served six years, and also served in this county six years. He went into the Confederate Army in May, 1861, as third lieutenant in Company K, Sixth Tennessee Infantry; but upon the re-organization of the Tennessee troops, he was in the Fourteenth Tennessee Cavalry, and was wounded at the battle of Shiloh, in the right arm, but was only disabled for a short time and remained in the service until the surrender. He was married in March, 1868, to Ellen Anthony, daughter of William A. and Eliza (Dycen) Anthony, and to them were born six children: Mark R., Malinda, James Empson, Albert S. (who died in infancy), Martha Eline and Knox. Mr. Walker has accumulated his property since the war by his own efforts and is now in comfortable circumstances, and one of the most substantial citizens of the county. He is a member of the Presbyterian Church, is now fifty-six years old and never used any kind of intoxicating liquor or used tobacco in any form; never had any legal trouble on his own account, and was never sued in his life. Mr. Walker is a Democrat and a strict prohibitionist.