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Nancy J. Boyd ~ Clarence A. Walker

Allegheny County, PA

Clarence A. Walker, of McKeesport, Pa., health officer of that city, was born in Westmoreland county, Pa., in 1853, and is a son of Jeremiah and Olive Walker.  He accompanied his parents to Buena Vista, Allegheny county, when quite young, and there attended the public schools until sixteen years of age, when he commenced to learn the painters' trade.  He worked at that business for two years at Boston, Pa.,  then went to Blairville,  and there served out his apprenticeship.  Subsequently he removed to Pittsburg, where he worked at his trade for one year,  and returning to Buena Vista, went into business on his own account.  In 1878 Mr Walker located at McKeesport, and there continued his business of painting, with some slight interruptions, until 1902, when he was elected to his present position of health officer, and turned over his painting establishment to his son, C. E. Walker.  Mr Walker is a prominent republican, and has occupied several positions of importance in connection with the municipal government.  He was appointed a school director to fill the un-expired term of Florian Smith, and a the expiration of that term was elected to the same position from the first ward.  Subsequently he removed to the third ward,  and was the first water commissioner of McKeesport,  serving three years in that important capacity, and being re-elected for another three year term.  Mr. Walker was married,  in 1875, to Nancy J. Boyd, of Boyd's Hollow, Pa.,  to whom were born four children:  Collomore E., Jennie, Olive and Eliza, the last two named deceased.  Mr Walker is a member of the Masons, the Junior Order of American Mechanics; also member of the Woodmen of the World, and the Cumberland Presbyterian church.

Source: Memoirs of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania; personal and genealogical. Vol. 2  Imprint: Madison, Wis., Northwestern Historical Association, 1904. 

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