. The men of New York: a collection of biographies and portraits of citizens of the Empire state prominent in business, professional, social, and political life during the last decade of the nineteenth century .. . 37; began business in New York city in18S7 ; married Harriet Olivia Avery Young of Kil-lingly. Conn., Novetnber 30, 18^1; has been the headof what is no2ii the house of Tiffany c?- Co. since thebusiness was established in 1837, and presidoit andtreasurer since its incorporation in 1SG8. 50bn BriSbeU ¥Clall?er, vvho has acquirednational fame in recent years by his extraordinarysucces
. The men of New York: a collection of biographies and portraits of citizens of the Empire state prominent in business, professional, social, and political life during the last decade of the nineteenth century .. . 37; began business in New York city in18S7 ; married Harriet Olivia Avery Young of Kil-lingly. Conn., Novetnber 30, 18^1; has been the headof what is no2ii the house of Tiffany c?- Co. since thebusiness was established in 1837, and presidoit andtreasurer since its incorporation in 1SG8. 50bn BriSbeU ¥Clall?er, vvho has acquirednational fame in recent years by his extraordinarysuccess as a publisher, was born on the Monongahelariver, Pennsylvania, about fifty years ago. He is ascion of a distinguished American family, his grand-father, Major John Walker, having been the first com-missioner for the improvement of western rivers, andhaving established the first shipyards west of theAlleghany mountains. Mr. Walkers career has been unusually pic-turesc|\ie and interesting. After leaving GeorgetownCollege in 1865, he went to the United States Mil-itary Academy at West Point, where he studiedthree years. In 1868 he resigned his cadetship inorder to enter the Chinese military service, accom-. LEWIS panying J. Ross Browne, the United States ministerto China. Having returned to this country in 1870,he engaged in manufacturing in West Virginia untilthe panic of 1873 reduced him to poverty. He thenmade an entirely fresh start in life by becoming aspecial writer for the Cincinnati Cotnmercial. Thisengagement soon gave way to a better post, that ofmanaging editor of the Pittsburg Telegraph : and in1876 he made another change, becoming managingeditor of the Washington Daily Chronicle. Mr. Walker had already proved himself extremelyversatile, but in 1879 he made another abrupt changein his calling. Moving to Colorado in the yearmentioned, he l)ecame the first man to engagein alfalfa farmint; on an extended scale in the fiO MEX OF XEIV ]-0/^A—MAX//
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