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Amasa Walker

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Born: May 4, 1799

Birthplace: North Brookfield, Massachusetts

Father: Deacon Walter Walker 1773 – 1835
(Buried: North Brookfield Cemetery, North Brookfield, Massachusetts)​

Mother: Priscilla Carpenter 1775 – 1835
(Buried: North Brookfield Cemetery, North Brookfield, Massachusetts)​

1st​ Wife: Emeline C. Carleton 1800 – 1828
(Buried: North Brookfield Cemetery, North Brookfield, Massachusetts)​

2nd​ Wife: Hannah Ambrose 1803 – 1875
(Buried: North Brookfield Cemetery, North Brookfield, Massachusetts)​

Children:

Emeline Carleton Walker 1828 – 1828​
(Buried: North Brookfield Cemetery, North Brookfield, Massachusetts)​
Emeline B. “Emma” Walker Batcheller 1835 – 1910​
(Buried: Mount Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, Massachusetts)​
Robert Walter Walker 1837 – 1909​
(Buried: Walnut Grove Cemetery, North Brookfield, Massachusetts)​
Francis Amasa Walker 1840 – 1897​
(Buried: Walnut Grove Cemetery, North Brookfield, Massachusetts)​

Political Party: Jacksonian, Democratic, Liberty, Free Soil, Republican

Occupation before War:


1820 – 1823: Business Partner of Allen Newell in North Brookfield, Massachusetts.
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1823 – 1825: Agent for Methuen Manufacturing Company​
1825 – 1827: Business Partner with firm of Carleton and Walker​
1827 – 1840: Businessman in Boston, Massachusetts​
1836: Massachusetts Delegate Democratic Party National Convention​
1842 – 1848: Political Economy Lecturer at Oberlin College​
1843: Delegate International Peace Conference in London, England​
1848 – 1854: Co Author Transactions of the Agricultural Sciences of Massachusetts
1849: Delegate International Peace Conference in London, England​
1849: Massachusetts State Representative​
1850: Massachusetts State Senator​
1851 – 1852: Massachusetts State Secretary of State​
1853: Member of Massachusetts State Constitutional Convention​
1853 – 1860: Political Economy Lecturer at Harvard University​
1856: Massachusetts Delegate Republican Party National Convention​
1857: Author of Nature and Uses of Money and Mixed Currency
1857: Started Publishing articles on Political Economy.​
1859 – 1869: Political Economy Lecturer at Amherst College​
1860: Massachusetts State Representative​
1860: Massachusetts Elector for Abraham Lincoln.​

Civil War Career:

1862: Elected to U.S. Congress to fill vacancy of Goldsmith F. Bailey.​
1862 – 1863: United States Congressman from Massachusetts​
1862 – 1863: Member of House Private Land Claims Committee​
1862: Choose not to be a candidate for election to 38th​ Congress.​

Occupation after War:

1866: Author of Science of Wealth, a manual of Political Economy

Died:
October 29, 1875

Place of Death: North Brookfield, Massachusetts

Age at time of Death: 76 years old

Burial Place: North Brookfield Cemetery, North Brookfield, Massachusetts
 
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