. Contemporary American biography . to be entirely occupied even with the stupendous business interestswhich Mr. Walters has carried on through a long lifetime, has; in the collection and in verynumerous other services for art, its finest and most forceful exponent. It is by that creation,and by the closely parallel and allied lines in which the sympathies and energies of our subjecthave found expression, that his character is most appreciatively and adequately to be judged,but as leading to a better consideration of those useful outcomes or results of his peculiarmentality, a swift survey of
. Contemporary American biography . to be entirely occupied even with the stupendous business interestswhich Mr. Walters has carried on through a long lifetime, has; in the collection and in verynumerous other services for art, its finest and most forceful exponent. It is by that creation,and by the closely parallel and allied lines in which the sympathies and energies of our subjecthave found expression, that his character is most appreciatively and adequately to be judged,but as leading to a better consideration of those useful outcomes or results of his peculiarmentality, a swift survey of his early life and business career will reveal some of the formativecauses of his rich endowment and large development of mind and heart, together with thatadvancement in material prosperity which, in his case at least, instead of overshadowing andobscuring, made practicable the realization of very many of his higher aspirations. WilliamT. Walters was born, in the year 1S20, in the beautiful Juniata Eiver region, in Pennsylvania, %.
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