Memoirs of the judiciary and the bar of New England for the nineteenth century : with a history of the judicial system of New England . party duringthe Civil war and the reconstruction period:was profoundly religious and a great Biblestudent. Mr. Ieck never married. He diedMay 18, 1879. position of principal of the Little Falls acad-emy at Little Falls, Xew York, being engagedthere two years. While filling the above posi-tion his leisure hours were emj)loyed in study-ing law in the office of Judge ArphaxedLoomis, a prominent attorney of Walker came to Ludlow in the fall of18(


Memoirs of the judiciary and the bar of New England for the nineteenth century : with a history of the judicial system of New England . party duringthe Civil war and the reconstruction period:was profoundly religious and a great Biblestudent. Mr. Ieck never married. He diedMay 18, 1879. position of principal of the Little Falls acad-emy at Little Falls, Xew York, being engagedthere two years. While filling the above posi-tion his leisure hours were emj)loyed in study-ing law in the office of Judge ArphaxedLoomis, a prominent attorney of Walker came to Ludlow in the fall of18(Jt) and completed his studies with Hon. Robbins, and liecame a member of theWindsor county liar in the fall of 1861. Thepractice of his profession was commenced inLudlow the year he was admitted. He filledvarious positions of political and judicial trustin his town aiid .State. He was assistant sec-. WILLIAM H. WALKER. WILLIAM HARRIS WALKER wasborn in Windham, \^ermont, Feb-ruary 2, , and is the second son of Eph-raim and Lydia (Harris) Walker. His motherwas a sister of the late Judge William Harris,for whom our sultject was named. After at-tending the Leland academy of Townshend,Vermont, for one term, he entered Black Riveracademy in 1852, where he remained oneyear. His classical education was obtained atMiddlebury college, from which he graduatedwith full honors, afterward being one of itstrustees for many years. He accepted the retaiy of the senate in 1857, member of the\ermont of representatives of 1865-1866anil 1884, member of the State senate fromWindsor county in 18i;7-18()S. States attorneyin 1874-l87(i, super\isor of the insane 1878-1880, proljate judge of Windsor district from1S78 to 1884, and in the latter year waselected hv the legislature a mendier of theSupreme bench, which position he was obligedto resign in 1887 on account of ill health,.ludge Walker ma


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