. History of Hamilton County, Ohio, with illustrations and biographical sketches. died April 12, 1854. CAPTAIN GEORGE W. Walker was a native of the isle of Guernsey,born in 1774 of an English-French family. HettieStibbs was born in New Jersey, United States, 1780, ofHolland stock. She became Mrs. Walker after the im-migration of her husband to New York city in 1806—probably about 1807 or 1808. He labored as a housecarpenter, and also, under the direction of his friend therenowned Robert Fulton, he shaped at his shop by night,after the labors of the day were over, the model for th
. History of Hamilton County, Ohio, with illustrations and biographical sketches. died April 12, 1854. CAPTAIN GEORGE W. Walker was a native of the isle of Guernsey,born in 1774 of an English-French family. HettieStibbs was born in New Jersey, United States, 1780, ofHolland stock. She became Mrs. Walker after the im-migration of her husband to New York city in 1806—probably about 1807 or 1808. He labored as a housecarpenter, and also, under the direction of his friend therenowned Robert Fulton, he shaped at his shop by night,after the labors of the day were over, the model for theClermont, the first steamer to navigate the Hudsonriver. The family, comprising then but two children,with the parents left the Atlantic coast in 1811, promptedthereto by the prospect of war with Great Britain andthe consequent danger to him as still a British subject,and started for Cincinnati. From New York to Phila-delphia they journeyed by ocean vessel, thence threeweeks travel took them by wagon across the mountainsto Pittsburgh, where they embarked upon a flatboat for.
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