The Wallkill Valley in art and story . was captured at Dolgelly, and had presented to him the alternative ol a political trial or an embarkation to America. Each suc-neration In this country has been engaged in its wars, and to Mr. Nanny is due the organization ofthe I i inty Chapter, ol ihs ol the Revolution. His lather Capt. Abram L. Nanny was well known dun:.. • f the Civil War, as the Provost Marshal oi the then llth District, composed of the counties of ! Sullivan, under Whose direction an enrollment Ol those liable to military duty, and a draft of 2,000men therefrom, was made .it
The Wallkill Valley in art and story . was captured at Dolgelly, and had presented to him the alternative ol a political trial or an embarkation to America. Each suc-neration In this country has been engaged in its wars, and to Mr. Nanny is due the organization ofthe I i inty Chapter, ol ihs ol the Revolution. His lather Capt. Abram L. Nanny was well known dun:.. • f the Civil War, as the Provost Marshal oi the then llth District, composed of the counties of ! Sullivan, under Whose direction an enrollment Ol those liable to military duty, and a draft of 2,000men therefrom, was made .it Goshen, during a period ol tierce political excitement, in 1863, at which time he was?attained b) the 5th Regiment ol Wisconsin and the 2d Connecticut Battery. It was Hi Nannys leslre t«» entei the Military Academy at West point, hut an affliction which resultedIn permanent Infirmity Intervened on the eve ol his appointment, and the would-be soldier was sent to Collegeand reluctantly turned to another pursuit. •M. James M- Walker- JAMES M., son of Jacob Walker and Mary C. Durkee, was born at Walker Valley, Ulster Co., February28, 1845. He was educated in the public schools and completed a course of training in the NewburghBusiness College. He assisted his father in all his business interests, in the store, on the farm, at the saw-mill and in all kinds of lumbering. In 1865 he took charge of the market wagon route from Walker Valley toNewburgh, selling farm produce and shipping butter to New York by way of Wm. K. Maillers 1868 and 69, he filled the same position for Mr. C. Barnhart, to whom his father had sold the store andbusiness in Walker Valley. In 1870 his father built the three-story brick building on Montgomery , and on May 9th of that year it was opened for business under the firm name of Jacob Walker & 1877 they enlarged the building, and in 1880, Jacob Walker, the senior member of the firm retired and JamesS. Eaton took his place, an
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