Walker, Joseph Burbeen (1822-1913)

Name:

Walker, Joseph Burbeen (1822-1913)

Title:

Member, Republican Party
Member, Congregational Church
Trustee, New Hampshire Asylum for the Insane, 1847-1897.
Director, Merrimack County Savings Bank, 1845-1866.
President, New Hampshire Savings Bank, 1865-1874
Director, Mechanicks National Bank, 1880-1910.
Member, Board of Education, City of Concord
Member, New Hampshire House of Representatives,1866-1867
Member, New Hampshire State Senate, 1893-1894
President, New Hampshire Board of Agriculture, 1896-1906.
Librarian, New Hampshire Historical Society, 1845-1850
Vice-President, New Hampshire Historical Society, 1860-1866
President, New Hampshire Historical Society, 1866-1869

Other Names:

Walker, Joseph B.

Born:

06/12/1822

Birthplace:

Concord, NH

Died:

01/08/1913

Death Location:

Concord, NH

Residence:

Concord, NH
Washington, DC

Nationality:

American

Occupation:

Attorney
Author
Historian
Farmer

Father:

Walker, Joseph (Capt.) (1782-1833)

Mother:

Sawyer, Ann (1786-1823)

Relations:

Great-grandson of Rev. Timothy Walker (1705-1782)
Grandson of Judge Timothy Walker (1737-1822)

Spouse:

Married (1) Sarah Adams Fitz (1827-1848), May 5, 1847
Married (2) Elizabeth Lord Upham (1830-1913), May 1, 1850

Children:

Charles Rumford (physician; res. Concord; children)
Susan Burbeen (m. Charles M. Gilbert of Savannah, GA)
Nathaniel Upham (lawyer; Boston, MA)
Eliza Lord (res. Concord)
Joseph Timothy (res. Concord)

Notes:

Joseph B. Walker Papers, New Hampshire Historical Society, Concord, New Hampshire.

Vital Records, New Hampshire State Archives

"Concord's One Hundred and Fiftieth Anniversary," The Granite Monthly, 47(May-June 1915)5 6, 145, Portrait Facing 145.